Testing out direct photo-blogging for a potential new blog.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, February 2, 2009
Running is like mouthwash, if you can feel the burn, it's working.... sometimes
A running update!
Well, as some of you know... nope? nobody? Well... I'm doing a marathon... again... The marathon is next weekend (the 8th of February) making this the last week before it... 6 days to go! The last month and a bit has entailed a lot of training, building up to about 65km a week, which peaked about 3 weeks ago before I started 'The Taper'TM.
'The Taper'TM involves cutting back on km's while maintaining speed for the first 2 weeks, then cutting back on everything in the week before the race. Well, last week I ran 21.5km on the Sun and then pushed my shorter, faster run from Tuesday to Wednesday because I was climbing on the Tuesday.
So on the Wednesday, I was only running 6.5km so decided to try to push the pace a little bit. I went out hard at the start... too hard, and started slowing down in my second km. By the time i was passed 5km I'd slowed significantly and just tried to maintain my pace till the end. When I rounded the final corner and only had a couple of hundred metres to go, I tried to push hard and ignore the pain in my lungs, quads, knees, etc, etc... The small pain in my left calf was very easy to ignore for those last few seconds, but not so easy to ignore when it made me limp for the next 2 days!
Seems I had a moderate strain in my calf, or somewhere behind it.
I decided to rest it for a couple of days and on Saturday it was feeling good enough for me to think about a short, easy run to "losen it up". Well after a few steps, the pain was already serious and I thought about just stopping running, but I pushed on anyway. After a while the pain sort of died away, and at the time I thought I could probably run about 21km with that pain at proper pace.
After the run, the pain was back just as bad as ever, and that night I took a more drastic approach downing ibuprofen, alternating ice and heat on my calf and using frequent massage. What ever it was (probably the drugs!) I was feeling fine on Sunday and had a great 10km run @13km/hr. It felt easy and I felt strong.
Still, the pain returned on Monday so I saw a doctor who recommended a physio.
I see that I've fallen into the old trap here, I started this post a couple of days ago, but waffled on so long that I didn't finish it in one go, and didn't get around to posting it till now. I guess I'll just try to keep my posts shorter and more cryptic... Everyone loves a bit of mystery right?
Run on!
~Joe
PS plus I can't be bothered spell or grammer checking this.
Well, as some of you know... nope? nobody? Well... I'm doing a marathon... again... The marathon is next weekend (the 8th of February) making this the last week before it... 6 days to go! The last month and a bit has entailed a lot of training, building up to about 65km a week, which peaked about 3 weeks ago before I started 'The Taper'TM.
'The Taper'TM involves cutting back on km's while maintaining speed for the first 2 weeks, then cutting back on everything in the week before the race. Well, last week I ran 21.5km on the Sun and then pushed my shorter, faster run from Tuesday to Wednesday because I was climbing on the Tuesday.
So on the Wednesday, I was only running 6.5km so decided to try to push the pace a little bit. I went out hard at the start... too hard, and started slowing down in my second km. By the time i was passed 5km I'd slowed significantly and just tried to maintain my pace till the end. When I rounded the final corner and only had a couple of hundred metres to go, I tried to push hard and ignore the pain in my lungs, quads, knees, etc, etc... The small pain in my left calf was very easy to ignore for those last few seconds, but not so easy to ignore when it made me limp for the next 2 days!
Seems I had a moderate strain in my calf, or somewhere behind it.
I decided to rest it for a couple of days and on Saturday it was feeling good enough for me to think about a short, easy run to "losen it up". Well after a few steps, the pain was already serious and I thought about just stopping running, but I pushed on anyway. After a while the pain sort of died away, and at the time I thought I could probably run about 21km with that pain at proper pace.
After the run, the pain was back just as bad as ever, and that night I took a more drastic approach downing ibuprofen, alternating ice and heat on my calf and using frequent massage. What ever it was (probably the drugs!) I was feeling fine on Sunday and had a great 10km run @13km/hr. It felt easy and I felt strong.
Still, the pain returned on Monday so I saw a doctor who recommended a physio.
I see that I've fallen into the old trap here, I started this post a couple of days ago, but waffled on so long that I didn't finish it in one go, and didn't get around to posting it till now. I guess I'll just try to keep my posts shorter and more cryptic... Everyone loves a bit of mystery right?
Run on!
~Joe
PS plus I can't be bothered spell or grammer checking this.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The Food has moved!
So even though I don't post here much, or, at all really, I thought that it wasn't the best place to post my 365days of food photos, so I'm moving them to a new location...
http://joegrays365food.blogspot.com/
So, I'll guess I'll still try to write here for "regular" stuff. Maybe in a more informal, casual and generally rushed way, so there's more posts here, and the food will go on the other one.
Allez!
~Joe
So even though I don't post here much, or, at all really, I thought that it wasn't the best place to post my 365days of food photos, so I'm moving them to a new location...
http://joegrays365food.blogspot.com/
So, I'll guess I'll still try to write here for "regular" stuff. Maybe in a more informal, casual and generally rushed way, so there's more posts here, and the food will go on the other one.
Allez!
~Joe
Day 3 - Tea Eggs and Coffee
A breakfast post. I've been eating tea eggs for a couple of weeks now. Normally we cook up a huge pot of them and just re-heat them every morning for breakfast.
Judging by the size of the pot I'd say I've got at least another 1-2 weeks of tea eggs to go!
Judging by the size of the pot I'd say I've got at least another 1-2 weeks of tea eggs to go!
Day 2 - CNY Holiday Treats
So this is Day 2... Already my blog isn't up to date, but at least my flickr has had a photo posted everyday.
I was thinking that I'll try to get a new photo on Flickr everyday (so it might be the best place to look), and then blog about them when I have time, like now.
But I can also see some scenarios where I might not be able to update my flickr, say, if I go on a camping trip. I suppose this means that I'll have to rely on the exif date. So long as I have one photo from everyday posted up promptly, and the exif dates match, I think that's still okay.
But I'm certainly going to try to upload them onto my flickr everyday, as it's just more fun that way!
Wish me luck!
I was thinking that I'll try to get a new photo on Flickr everyday (so it might be the best place to look), and then blog about them when I have time, like now.
But I can also see some scenarios where I might not be able to update my flickr, say, if I go on a camping trip. I suppose this means that I'll have to rely on the exif date. So long as I have one photo from everyday posted up promptly, and the exif dates match, I think that's still okay.
But I'm certainly going to try to upload them onto my flickr everyday, as it's just more fun that way!
Wish me luck!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Day 1 - Chinese New Year Noodle Mushroom Pot
So... It seems that I'm going to get back around to the blog again, but this time, in a lot more photo orientated way...
I'm planning on doing a photo everyday of food. Not always fancy food and not necessarily only things I've cooked, but just the food that I eat everyday.
So this is number 1! It's the first day of the Chinese New Year, not a bad day to start, seeing as I missed both Christmas and Western New Year... So let's see if I can keep this up!
I'm planning on doing a photo everyday of food. Not always fancy food and not necessarily only things I've cooked, but just the food that I eat everyday.
So this is number 1! It's the first day of the Chinese New Year, not a bad day to start, seeing as I missed both Christmas and Western New Year... So let's see if I can keep this up!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wah!
Wah, All my panoramas in the previous post got cut off... To see them in full, please click on the photos!
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