First Post of 2010
Well it has clearly been quite a while since I posted, I think mostly it was because I have been dealing with an injury that has kept me from running until last week. After the 40 on Dusty's birthday I noticed a lump on my achilles, I had had this lump before right after the Bear 100. I decided to take it seriously, take some time off and really get it healed so I can start 2010 strong. Well it turns out this has been a very difficult injury to get taken care of. I have tried lots of stretching, eccentric calf raises, and then added some Graston technique treatments from a good friend that is a trainer at the local university. At this point the lump was completely painless but still there. I tried running on it last week and no pain but the lump got a little larger, that is when I decided to see the local sports med doc. At the doc we did an ultrasound to check the integrity of the achilles, it showed a very small partial tear and some discongruent fibers. The doc has seen a lot of athletes and feels comfortable with me to continuing running, we also decided to try using low dose nitro patches on the achilles at night to help promote healing, there is a lot of good research about nitro patches for tendinopathies and other than the headaches it seems to be helping.