Not the time of year, but what happened to me on my Wednesday evening run. Just a few tenths of a mile into a three mile run I fell for the first time I can remember. My right knee and phone took the brunt of the impact, both with more scratches than I’d like to […]

I came down with heat exhaustion last week while I was on vacation. A two hour ride at midday, combined with extraordinary heat and humidity and a broken ice maker in our refrigerator to put me in pretty rough shape the next day. I needed hydration, and in a bad way. A few days off, […]

I overdid it. I was off this past week (and while my life was somewhat disrupted by an unexpected death in the family) and very ambitious about my workout schedule. The weather was also great. Too great. I was stopped in my tracks by a case of heat exhaustion on Tuesday’s two hour ride. Heat […]

Injury is at the forefront of my mind. After losing some training time to my post basketball back pain, now I’m losing some miles to my inured knee on Sunday’s hike. I’ve got a lot to lose right now too. The biggest events of the year are all ahead of me. Perhaps I need to […]

I’m injured but I believe not too much. I fell on today’s hike, scraping my knee. I was able to finish the hike without much difficulty, but my right knee–where I fell–felt a little odd. So I put off today’s ride, although I’m still considering doing one, just not very long. We’ll see how I […]

One of the things that the Twitter gang on O’ahu does from time to time is gather for Tweeball, our monthly or so basketball game. And in a previous life I used to play a ton of basketball. Love playing still. But I stopped. And why did I stop playing the more times a week […]

I battle periodic, but not debilitating, pain in my knees and hamstrings that gets worse after high effort events. I’m not much for medication, so my number one method of dealing with these is ice. Icing down my knees–and I try to do this for maintenance, meaning daily, rather than acutely, or only when I’m […]

While not part of the RICE method of dealing with athletic injuries, stretching is an essential part of any athletic repertoire. And flexibility is one of the great weaknesses of cycling. Doing the same motion over and over and over again without full range of motion is not helpful to flexibility, so stretching is even […]

I must get into the practice of this: ice down my knees for twenty minutes every night. It’s tough for me to do because I don’t like sitting still, and I like taping stuff around my legs even less. Yet, the practice of icing down my knees is helping me keep the ITB that limited […]

From everything I can tell, I have iliotibial band syndrome, also known as ITBS. What I know for sure is that it can hurt–sometimes a lot–and is what had me limping through the only marathon I’ve ever done. The details on the ITB can be found here. It’s inflammation, and it can be caused by […]