A Passion for Running

Welcome to the home of Mark aka The Running Blogfather – a 40 year-old dad, husband and marathon runner who's beaten injury and is on the comeback trail!

the babes love me

passion for running category: running on Wednesday, September 22 2004

I’ve been a posting machine lately. Post #3 for tonight…

Anyway, the title of THIS post got your attention huh? Keep reading. It gets better. Much better.

I had a young, good lookin’ blonde all over me today. She couldn’t keep her hands off me. In fact, she stripped me down to my shorts and…

I tell ya, this girl was into painful pleasures. Wucka wucka! (Oh come on – I run MARATHONS remember? Of COURSE I love pain!)

Okay, some admissions:

1) She was a professional.
2) I paid her.
3) She was a massage therapist.

I was sounding so cool until just now huh? I mean, it was like I was in high school again and I was actually scoring! (I can dream right?)

Today on Jon’s blog I admitted my shin splints have returned. Usually that means one of two things: 1) Old shoes, or 2) I’ve been doing some intense running. I’ll end the suspense right now – it’s #2.

My legs have also been REALLY tight this past week. Especially my calves. They’ve been like lead – especially since the 20 miler. AND I’ve had this irritating little cramp on the lower left side of my back for a WHILE now. Nothing major but it’s been buggin’ me to no end.

So I thought, “What to do what to do?”. Then I remembered how much massage therapy helped the last time I had shin-splints (about three years ago) so it was a no-brainer. I made an appointment and went this afternoon.

FRIGGIN HELL THAT HURT!

She “stripped” my lower back. IT HURT. She stripped my left calf and shin. THAT HURT. Then she stripped my right calf and shin (the one with the shin splint). That’s when I ended up clinging upside down to the ceiling like Sylvester the cat in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

The instruction a massage therapist gives to help you through the…ORDEAL of deep-tissue massage is…interesting.

“Tell me when the pain gets too intense ok?”

That question just makes me ask my own:

Does it mean I should tell her about the pain WHILE she’s driving her knee four inches deep into my calf and I’m biting into the head-rest, or do I wait till after I can actually speak again?

And what’s “too intense”? Is it mile 23 intense? How about mile 24? 25? 26? 26.25? I asked her MY question. She couldn’t help me since she’d never run a marathon. She just said, “yell if it hurts too much” and smiled. Hmmm…

So 45 minutes and $40 later, I was done like tenderized meat. That was a lotta pain I PAID for. I suppose a pretty good deal compared to a marathon entry fee which generally runs between $75 and $100 where I live.

So was it worth it? OH YEAH! Deep-tissue massage is da bomb man. I can TELL that one treatment is gonna make the world of difference and I’m already looking forward to tomorrow’s run.

If you’ve got aches and pains you MUST give it a try.

Oh yeah! For the record, my wife Lori is a much prettier blonde than Jennifer. I think that was her name. ;)

(am I smooth or what?)




9 Comments

971

Pingback by A Passion for Running » a pound of flesh = 5 minutes faster?

Saturday October 02, 2004 @

[...] ope anyway… My massage therapist put my legs through absolute hell yesterday. After my last session where I instructed Jennifer that my calves and shins were the pr [...]

869

Comment by Mike Paus

Wednesday September 22, 2004 @

Blogfather that is hilarious! I gotta give you props, I can neither afford, nor do I trust anyone remotely connected the massage field. For you to endure that pain sets a good example for the rest of us. Hope your run is SMOKIN tomorrow!

871

Comment by Susan

Thursday September 23, 2004 @

Ha. Isn’t is funny how I wrote about feeling awkward going to a male for a massage and you wrote quite the opposite!Ah we men and women are wired differently, for sure. A funny post, Mark.

873

Comment by Richard

Thursday September 23, 2004 @

Heh – I loved getting massages before my marathon last year. Made a world of difference, especially to injuries. And $40cdn for 45 minutes? That’s a good deal, too, at least compared to down here.

874

Comment by Jon in Michigan

Thursday September 23, 2004 @

Hot blondes giving painful massages in Canada? Where the heck did I stash those Loonies again…

875

Comment by Mark

Thursday September 23, 2004 @

Mike: I’m not sure how it is in your neck of the woods but up here massage therapists have to go to college and become accredited. It is not like the old days where you went into a dark, seedy room and took your chances.

Susan: Yeah, that is funny. Personally, I’m more comfortable with a female massage therapist. I might be slightly homophobic. Nah!!! I’m not. I promise.

Richard: She actually gave me a deal. I was scheduled for 30 minutes but she went longer because my shins were pretty knotted up. I offered to pay but she declined the extra payment since it was my first time with her. Generally, MTs are more than a buck a minute up here. My appointment should have been $40 for 30 minutes.

Jon: Loonies? You need to account for recent inflation and go with some toonies! http://www.lado.ne.jp/colu/can/0103can/2dollar.jpg

877

Comment by Pamalamadingdong

Thursday September 23, 2004 @

Nice one.
I’m still too chicken (read POOR) to get a massage. Though one of the girls that ran the half with me this weekend had a massage the week before and wasn’t NEARLY as sore as the rest of us.
Although she stubbed her toe last night and now it’s purple so she can’t run.
Karma?

892

Comment by Alex

Thursday September 23, 2004 @

Ha! I just came home from getting a massage this afternoon. It’s amazing how something that hurts that much can make you feel so much better. Heh. The woman I go to is all like, well, if your muscles weren’t so tight and knotted up it wouldn’t hurt so much when we release them! But it’s worth every penny and all the pain because I come out of there feeling great. Of couse, she ran her last marathon in 3:06, so she’s always urging me to go out and push myself a little bit harder than I do — it helps generate more business, I guess!

895

Comment by Reba

Friday September 24, 2004 @

Mark, you are just what the doctor ordered. I get such a lift out of reading your wonderful silliness!! I’m off to see my own message terrorist to work on my upper back and neck…hope there is no ‘screaming to stop’ required! ~horrified expression~ :)

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
A blue box by your comment means you do not have an avatar from www.gravatar.com!

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.