Maybe the title of this blog with its Christmas song lyric title would have been better if I had have sat down and written about it when I actually thought about it a couple of weeks ago, as it happens Christmas is now just a dim and seemingly distant memory but with the job I do and the way my life is I just didn't have the time to do it.
Remember that Indian summer we had? Remember how lovely and warm October and November were?
So do I. Pounding the pavement in the relative warmth of the 10 degrees or so that it was might have seemed cold at the time but looking back it was unseasonably warm and something I should have perhaps appreciated more given that the during 6 week gap between running (I was off with a foot injury) the temperature has plummeted, dipping in to the - figures far more than someone in lycra shorts and tshirt would like.
Im fairly new to running, I started in Spring 2014, so I haven't faced a winter as a runner. I run with a small local club and even back during the tail end of that long summer I was wearing what I thought was my winter kit: silly tights and a long sleeve tshirt, sometimes even a coat and thin gloves. Then I had my few weeks off, I came back and it is more than a little nippy to say the least.
Now, too, the floppy short and tshirt wearing runners are all covered up from head to toe in funny skin tight material, they sort of look like high vis ninjas!
Although I now feel underdressed, its not too bad once you've ran a couple of miles but the cold will always find a way in and for me its the ankles: Being 6'4" with size 12 feet the running tights don't go down all the way and the socks don't come up that far either!
And I can't wear knee high socks, I just can't.
So, cold ankles it is then.
Saturday 3 January 2015
Thursday 1 January 2015
RUNNING - The Foot Saga
I promised you a foot update in this blog, so here goes:
One of the many, many benefits of being a Hair dresser is that you talk to, and get to know, a lot of people and sometimes the knowledge or skills they have can be of benefit. In this case a client of my wife's is a nurse at Accident and Emergency so a quick text to her and I knew the perfect time to go to A and E and what to say when I got there.
You may read that and think that if I can choose when I go to A and E that its not a real emergency and you would be right. Yes, my foot hurt and it hurt a LOT but was it an emergency? No, but sometimes the stupidity of the good ol' NHS forces us to make such a decision. Initially my doctor told me to rest it for two weeks then try running again and if it still hurt then then I should call him back and he would refer me for an X-Ray. I ran after my rest period and it was still the same so I called my Doctor back as and when I had been told to do so yet he was apparently on holiday for a month and as he actually saw my foot then he would have to be the one that writes the referral. I was offered another doctor but that would be a two week wait too and I would be going back to the start of the process and taking up an appointment that someone else could have had.
So I went to A and E instead.
The nice, cross, lady at A and E had a poke about and asked me a series of questions that made no sense to me before deciding that I definitely haven't broken a bone and its all soft tissue thats causing the pain. So she sent me for an X-Ray (I know, I thought that was a bit odd too). The X-Ray confirmed that nothing in by foot was broken at the moment but there was evidence of a previous metatarsal break and several toe breaks, mostly the little toe.
She said that the way I was limping was making it worse, I was allowing bits that needed to heal to not stretch in the way they needed to. She offered me a very very different remedy to the first doctor: Get my trainers on and get moving, do my best to use my foot EXACTLY how I would if it didn't hurt and you know what? I could feel it getting better almost straight away.
Imagine how annoyed I was then when just as my right foot was showing signs of recovery while pushing my trailer back on to my drive I ran over my little toe on my left foot and broke my little toe! Its all black and crooked now but it doesn't affect my movement so that's a bonus I guess.
I took it easy though at first, it took a while to even perfect walking properly but after a few weeks, about 6 weeks after the initial injury, I was back out running!
And my god, had it got cold in those 6 weeks!
One of the many, many benefits of being a Hair dresser is that you talk to, and get to know, a lot of people and sometimes the knowledge or skills they have can be of benefit. In this case a client of my wife's is a nurse at Accident and Emergency so a quick text to her and I knew the perfect time to go to A and E and what to say when I got there.
You may read that and think that if I can choose when I go to A and E that its not a real emergency and you would be right. Yes, my foot hurt and it hurt a LOT but was it an emergency? No, but sometimes the stupidity of the good ol' NHS forces us to make such a decision. Initially my doctor told me to rest it for two weeks then try running again and if it still hurt then then I should call him back and he would refer me for an X-Ray. I ran after my rest period and it was still the same so I called my Doctor back as and when I had been told to do so yet he was apparently on holiday for a month and as he actually saw my foot then he would have to be the one that writes the referral. I was offered another doctor but that would be a two week wait too and I would be going back to the start of the process and taking up an appointment that someone else could have had.
So I went to A and E instead.
The nice, cross, lady at A and E had a poke about and asked me a series of questions that made no sense to me before deciding that I definitely haven't broken a bone and its all soft tissue thats causing the pain. So she sent me for an X-Ray (I know, I thought that was a bit odd too). The X-Ray confirmed that nothing in by foot was broken at the moment but there was evidence of a previous metatarsal break and several toe breaks, mostly the little toe.
She said that the way I was limping was making it worse, I was allowing bits that needed to heal to not stretch in the way they needed to. She offered me a very very different remedy to the first doctor: Get my trainers on and get moving, do my best to use my foot EXACTLY how I would if it didn't hurt and you know what? I could feel it getting better almost straight away.
Imagine how annoyed I was then when just as my right foot was showing signs of recovery while pushing my trailer back on to my drive I ran over my little toe on my left foot and broke my little toe! Its all black and crooked now but it doesn't affect my movement so that's a bonus I guess.
I took it easy though at first, it took a while to even perfect walking properly but after a few weeks, about 6 weeks after the initial injury, I was back out running!
And my god, had it got cold in those 6 weeks!
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