A Passion for Running

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time for some whine and…wine

passion for running category: running on Tuesday, May 23 2006

Have I told you how much my a$$ hurts lately? No? Let me explain. A couple of months ago, during the renovation, I lifted a box of hardwood flooring kinda funny and blammo – something went goofy somewhere in my left but-cheek. And the dang thing has been off and on ever since. It’s this painful little thingy really deep in my butt muscle. Doesn’t bug me while running but most of the rest of the time. The good news is it seems to be getting better after some massage. No, I’m not gonna tell you how I am managing to massage my a$$.

This weekend, I racked the second batch of wine I’ve made with Aaron and my Dad. Before Aaron came over to help, I set out to remove the corks from the demi-johns (big bottles the juice ferments in). To make a long story short, one of those damn things exploded right into my eye. When it happened, I was sure I’d be making a trip to the hospital. My right eye hurt like a fargin’ bast’rd and got a bit bloody in the inside corner.

But that wasn’t it. A few hours later, I started to feel major stiffness in my neck and shoulders. By evening I realized I’d gotten some pretty severe whiplash from jerking my head back when the cork exploded at me.

Today, two days later, I went for a run and holy cow things hurt. I had pain radiating from my neck, down into my shoulder and further down into my arm like you wouldn’t believe. OW OW OW OW OW!

I decided to tough it out – each step more painful than the last all the while hoping things would loosen up a bit. Things did. It took fifteen minutes, but things loosened up enough to be at a 4/10 pain-wise.

The run was terrific other than my nigglies. Funny thing is, I seem to be getting all these injuries whilst not running so I’m thinking from now on, I should cut out all non-running related activity and carry on with life.

Think that will work?




13 Comments

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Comment by beverly

Tuesday May 23, 2006 @

You are clearly falling apart! :) Good theory on the “run only” method of rehab …

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Comment by darrell

Tuesday May 23, 2006 @

Who knew wine making was so potentially dangerous. Be careful out there! Avoiding all non running activities doesn’t sound half bad. I wonder how I’d pay the bills?

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Comment by 21stCenturyMom

Tuesday May 23, 2006 @

OW! I’m reading UltraMarathon Man by Dean Karnazes now and his life is pretty much a non-stop run. His wife and kids hop in the car, find him on the road and they all have a nice roadside dinner together. It would get you out of dish duty, anyhow.

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Comment by Robb Runner

Tuesday May 23, 2006 @

I watched one of my boys haul on the toe of his sock last night…guess what happened? Wham…in the face! Both hands! Nothing broken but laughable just the same.

Something to be said for the safety of the dog house.

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Comment by Jack

Wednesday May 24, 2006 @

Dean Karnazes is a good example of a perfect running life, too bad most of us don’t run like he does. Home improvement and hobbies can be dangerous, procede with caution – I would suggest full body armour and safety shoes.

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Comment by Rob

Wednesday May 24, 2006 @

A Tennis ball works great for that. Sounds weird, but besides using it for an arch massage on your foot, you can also take a tennis ball and basically sit on it while rolling it around the muscle. Same goes for feet – place it under your arch and put some weight on it while rolling it around. It does wonders.

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Comment by Alyson Wilson

Wednesday May 24, 2006 @

Your logic behind cutting out all dangerous non-running activities to save your body is sound! What a run of painfully bad luck, so to speak.

Thanks for your cool blog! I’ll keep reading.

-Alyson, thisnext.com/blog

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Comment by jeanne

Wednesday May 24, 2006 @

hmmm. that’s a lot more info than i ever wanted to know about your a$$. then I thought rob was advising you to roll a tennis ball around your eye. it’s all so confusing! obviously you should stop MAKING the wine, and start DRINKING it. and just keep running. obviously!

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Comment by jeff

Wednesday May 24, 2006 @

haha…mark, that’s a riot. the running (hehe) joke in our house is that i do more harm to myself walking around the house than on any of my epic adventures.

i’m safer on a big wall in yosemite than i am walking through the living room. go figure.

heal up quick, buddy!

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Comment by Anne

Wednesday May 24, 2006 @

It could be you pulled your piriformas muscle. It’s deep and it’s hard to heal. I know.

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Comment by LouBob

Thursday May 25, 2006 @

Sorry about your butt ache! I tried to test post on the test post but i wasn’t there^%$$@^@^#^

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Comment by RunDave

Thursday May 25, 2006 @

“I should cut out all non-running related activity and carry on with life.”

The name ‘Gump’ comes to mind.

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Comment by Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Thursday May 25, 2006 @

Ouch!!! Man you live a hard life…lol. Hope you didn’t ruin the wine. You may need it as pain killer later. :-)

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