Thursday, November 16, 2006
Welcome
Hello fellow runners, I just started this blog a minute ago so over the next few entries I would like to introduce myself. I am 45 and am (as you can tell from my blog name) a Christian trail runner. I am not gonna take a lot of time to talk about myself now but would rather get a topic going with other runners. Yesterday I got a cortisone shot (my second) in my foot, to try to cure a bout of PF I have been suffering with for now close to 10 months. Up until I came down with this injury I had been running for about two years and had run two 50 mile trail runs and I had been looking forward to running a 100 miler in 2006. I had started running for a few reasons, 1) To stay healthy, 2) To combat depression and 3) To quit drinking alcohol. It worked until my foot injury, but now I have slid back from accomplishing my goals. I pray for God to help cure my injury and I pray this last injection will do just that. I would like to know what experience other runners have had with PF and cortisone injections, and how you have kept your walk with God strong through out your ordeal. Thanks...Tom
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Hi Tom,
welcome to the blogger-world!
I never had PF, but from my experience being injured a couple of times - it will always pass! I started this weird thing talking to my problem zones; talking to my psoas muscle and shins. Since I give them more attention they do better. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true!
I had PF twice but never to the point of cortizon shot, though had this very shot twice for hip bursitis. Pretty much I had every injury in the book, but nevertheless am useless with advice. In general I take a couple of weeks off (like in stress fracture cases), then run in shin wrap and soft trails. Last one was tear in hamstring, and it put me out for some longer time (the injury itself wasn't running-related, rather stupid). How's orthotics sound? Does podiatrist say anything helpful? A splint for the night?
Hello, Tom.
With regard to your response to Dave Bursler's wailing (I can't comment on his blog directly because he, petrified of the truth getting out, moderates comments):
He didn't post everything I wrote to him, oh no. He omitted the ongoing harassment of an acquiantance at her place of work, to include the sending of pornographic "stories" by e-mail. He failed to mention posing as a woman and calling himself "Lorraine" in order to harass this person and (to this thinking) not have to take responsibility for his attacks, a stunt comfirmed by comparing the e-mail headers in one of his "genuine" messages with those in the "Lorraine" messages he sent from what he erroneously believed was an anonymous Hotmail account.
I'm not out to get him, but until he stops doing what he's doing, he'll continue discovering how badly he's going to lose at his own games.
For updates, you can visit my blog at http://ultrafudder.blogspot.com. I won't pollute your site any further with toxic nonsense about the not-so-unfortunate Mr. Bursler.
Thanks.
You are not alone when it comes to the injury bug. 2005/Fractured Sacrum after a successful race season from 5k to 50M races. Ran with it for 2 months before it got the best of me. 7 wks down time and massive cross training kept me sane. Came back in 2006 and ran 13 marathons, a 50M & 70M trail race. Now to my bout with ITBS. It has been an ongoing thing for over 2 years now. I refuse to quit running. I have my days. Sometimes I think it is worse then my previous injury. However, this seems to help: http://www.KTTape.com and may help alleviate some issues with your PF.
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