I had said I’d go running yesterday but I could tell by the way my leg felt when rolling that I could use one more day of rest.  It worked out great because the t-shirt saga continues and I got a shitload of work done, which is kind of silly considering running doesn’t take up that much time, but mentally, being able to plow through without stopping was just what I needed.

So I’ve been rolling and stretching, to the point that I thought I’d overdone it last night (must watch out for rehab overzealousness).  Today I was so excited to run again, you’d think it’d been 2 weeks, not 2 days.  Got out the door and ahhhhhh.  Rubber legs from all that rolling.

I ran 7 and taking a tip from a couple of the IT Band info sites, I did not make it recovery pace.   Don’t know if you know this, but IT Band crap is not affected by speed, or rather, the slower you go, the more likely it’ll hurt, so add that to my list of things I did wrong in the last post.

I went 7 miles @8:06 and it was lovely.  I stopped at the water fountain at mile 4.5 and stretched, then stretched a couple more times before finishing.  At the very end, I was feeling it a bit, but just a shadow.  No pathetic walk home for me today!  Woohoo.

So I’m sitting here, having rolled a few times and with an ice pack strapped to my thigh.  Bliss.

I think I’ll go for 7 again tomorrow and if all goes well, might even sneak in a light interval session  Friday or Saturday, especially since speed isn’t a detriment.  Meanwhile, I’ll be keeping up with the rehabby stuff like clockwork from now on.

On other news, I’m thoroughly excited about this switch to my new shirt company.  I ordered a wicking shirt to check on the quality and got it yesterday – love it!  The cut is really cute, the fabric is high quality and there’s no hand at all (“hand” means you can’t feel the print, it’s sublimated into the fabric).  I was worried that the print area would be stiff and unbreathable, but it’s like nothing.

Additionally, an unexpected bad/good thing happened, the graphic was supposed to be on the back but they put it on the front, so I was able to test the return policy.  It’s excellent!  They had me email a photo of the shirt showing the print and the size tag for verification and they’re sending me a new one.  So I get to keep the first one, which doesn’t have anything wrong with it, it’s just printed on the front.

In other world-affecting news, I cut bangs back into my hair last night.  My whole life, I’ve worn bangs but recently let them grow out completely with the idea of making my  hair easier to pull back while running.   That’s a dumb reason to have ugly hair, especially when your forehead simply begs for a bang.  So last night, after flicking, shoving and blowing hair out of my face for the umpteenth time, I grabbed some scissors and reinstated the fringe.  Normalcy restored.

What else?  I got a surprise in the mail yesterday…a cute little swiveling trophy.  It was from my last 10k where I got 2nd OA female.  There was a letter of apology included saying they didn’t have them ready at the race.  Neato Frito.

Lastly, the saga of my other medical malady; a corn/callus on the bottom edge of my foot.  Not a big deal or even painful except very occasionally but I figure I’d go after it while it was still small.  So I bought a Dr. Scholl’s product a couple weeks ago; these tiny, flat stickers you change every 48 hours till it goes away.

I’ve been wearing them for 10 days and they haven’t done shit.  Nothing at all.  So this morning I picked up the package to get the exact name of it in order to see if anyone complained about their ineffectiveness on Drugstore.com or Amazon.

As I picked it up, something fell out of the package.  Hmmm…what’s this?  Medicated discs.  What the…?  Oh, supposed to put that on the corn, then the sticker keeps the disc from falling off.   I’ve been walking around with useless flesh-colored stickers on my foot for over a week.  What an idiot.

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