The shin bone’s connected to the ankle bone…

It’s all coming back to me…little comments made over the years that indicate that my current condition–posterior tibial tedinitis–has been a long time coming:  A shoe salesman said that I was flat-footed.  A doctor commented that I was knock-kneed.  A chiropractor told me that I overpronate.  These characteristics were noted in the same manner in [...]

Ode To My Coach :-)

Coach David read my last post and commented that he wasn’t *that*  bad when he said “I told you so.”  He wasn’t.  I tried to find our conversation so I could quote him verbatim but it was over text message and it is long gone.  I think he said something like “Maybe now you’ll listen [...]

Learning the hard way

Back in January when I told my coach that I wanted to run Eugene on May 2 he said it was a bad idea.  It was too soon, he’d said, I’d be better off with a late June marathon.  He was concerned because I’d just run the second of two marathons only five weeks apart, [...]