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1月17日

Blisters vs. Shin splints

GASP! What's this? An update?
Yes. It's been a while. I've been diverting all of my allocated blogging/online free time effort into figuring out Wordpress and trying to make my own design from scratch (which is proving to be a little difficult to implement as I'm new to php). But I've had much going on elsewhere as well, so I figure I'd take a break from coding and troubleshooting and actually do something that shows I've done something.
 
Now that we've got that introductory tangent out of the way, let's get to the subject at hand -- addressed in the theme: blisters vs. shin splints
Those were the contenders in my mind on Friday night. Last Saturday (Jan 12) was the half marathon. I had a pair of shoes that I use for running, but they weren't the greatest running shoes. I had been getting shin splints from running in them (as well as from soccer...but we'll get to that in another post). So I was thinking about picking up a pair of running shoes with proper support. I leaned toward not getting them and going with the ones I already had, and so I left for Orlando ready to take on my shin splints.
 
We got up to Orlando (Lake Buena Vista, actually...but it's easier to just go with Orlando) by the afternoon, and headed to the Wide World of Sports complex to register for the marathon. There were about 12,000 people registering for the 1/2 marathon, and most of them seemed to be in the line I was supposed to be in at the time I was there. Meanwhile, my brother's line had about 6 people and his wife's had fewer than that. Instantly impatient, I asked my sister-in-law to see if they could take my registration at one of the less busy registration booths. I got a thumbs up (as vocal confirmation at that distance is hardly possible), and I immediately spared my life from another hour or so of waiting in line.
 
After we were all registered, we went to the expo going on in the same building. There were a decent amount of vendors there, and I did a quick lap around to get whatever free stuff I could get. Right in the middle of everything were several vendors selling running gear and, more importantly, shoes. So the battle raged on as blisters (new shoes!) arose from the grave with renewed vigor and excitement. I tried on a pair of Brooks that felt immediately good on my shins. The expo pricing was cheaper than normal, and so with that I chose blisters as my racing partner for the next day.
 
I'll save the details of the marathon for another post. Maybe later on today or tomorrow (Fri).

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Rachel发表:
Just get a little distracted sometimes. You can delete these if you want.
1 月 20 日
Rachel发表:
Yeah, blisters last forever!! I had to work in some new boots at a quickbuild once and had blisters the size of Mars afterwards (not a pretty picture). That same quickbuild it was so extremely hot that they had buckets of ice water at the corner of every building (you would take a rag, dip it in, and stick it under your hard hat). I would go over stick my hands in--icy coldness all over face--and then stick my gloves back on. Well apparently, when you put work gloves over wet hands you get this HUGECRAZYBLISTERSOFDEATH. I was working and my hands felt kind of weird. When I took off my gloves, my hands looked deformed because there were blisters in between all of my fingers (about 3 on each side of every finger). *Shrugs It was interesting to shoveling mud with those hands. First people thought I was deformed and then thought I had lepresy or something because when they started to pop, First Aid had to bandage my hands (if you get that cement on open wounds like that, you'll get ______ poisoning. It was like lime or some kind of weird poisoning).
Wow! Sorry Josh to put such a gigantic comment. I just got started and couldn't stop!
1 月 20 日
Mark发表:
I've thought about taking up running again, but it has been a long time - and I'm usually on empty.
1 月 17 日
Etan发表:
I'd go with the splints myself... they don't stick around for nearly as long as blisters. Glad to hear from you.
1 月 17 日

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