Mid-Week Update

My knee is doing better, I have been taking it rather slow getting back into my frequent runs. Last time was Monday and after six miles I felt a bit of a numbness. It is certainly better than sharp pains making me limp. Before this I ran four miles the prior Friday. I might stick to the six mile distance until I feel my knee is ready for a beating once again!

While training for the marathons, bare-footing took a back seat. This means I'm down to ~4 miles barefoot before putting on the Vibrams. The result is that while barefoot there are no pains, period, and when I put on the shoes, I begin feeling something that I would rather not.

This has had me shuffle between my old sprints with about 900 miles on them, they have a few holes in the sole due to wear, but they feel good and my feet are happy with them.
Then I had some Treks and I suspect the rougher sole combined with asphalt running caused the injury in the first place (combined with rapidly increasing mileage), after getting rid of the treks I got a pair of KSO's, but to me, they feel like they have a bit extra padding in the heel area, and I'm not entirely sure it is benefiting me.

But at least I'm slowly getting back out running. It'll be less frequent and not quite the distance I'd like for some time. But hopefully whatever it is I'm feeling won't stick around much longer, I've got plans you know!

I went to a two hour soccer practice session today, boy am I rusty and out of shape. The higher pace of movement had me breathing. I was sweating and although I haven't played in something like ten years I had a good time. The good thing, my knee wasn't bothered one bit. And if anything, soccer should stress it pretty good. I take it as a good sign, but also a sign that I have a bit more troubleshooting ahead to nail down the exact cause for my injury.

Kyle over at Running on the White Line is putting up a series of videos about his training, from running to swimming and talking a bit about how he got to where he is.
It's an interesting story, check it out!

Friday Links

Not Running Related:

• What is in our water and oxygen supply?
• Car wash knockout!
• Tricking people into thinking you're good looking.
• Meetings.

Geek:

• Awesome oldskool.

Here Is Something For The Carnivores.

While reading my daily danish newspapers online I saw an article about an unusual risk of eating meat. Or perhaps not so unusual depending on who you ask.
I about lost my breakfast reading it. Link to Google Translate of Original Page

What you are looking at is a big abscess filled with pus. The couple had eaten a few slices of their grilled roast before seeing it.

Mixed Bag of News.

Let's get the good news done right away.
After taking two weeks off from running completely, my first four mile run felt a bit better. I still had issues at the end and came home rather depressed about my summer running prospects. That was Friday.
Yesterday (Tuesday), I went  to try my knee at two miles. I ended up doing three and felt like I could keep going, but cut it short to not provoke the knee. At the end, if I have to be cautiously optimistic, I think I might have felt a bit of numbness on the outside of the knee, but I honestly don't know if it was my mind playing tricks on me since I had been focusing the whole way on feeling for anything out of the ordinary.

Drag Me to Hell!

Sorry for the link spamming today, but this is too good to pass up on.
Youtube Link

There really should be a requirement of passing some kind of test, for citizens to be able to vote.