Mrs. Slowrunning has been sick for the last couple of days. Nothing too serious. A viral infection knocked her out for a few days. I made a doctors appointment for her early yesterday morning. When we arrived at the doctors office my Physiotherapist is right next door to the doctors office. I decided then and there to go see the physio instead of running. So while my wife was getting checked out I was checking in for an appointment. When I got to see Jim Eustace ( http://allsportsphysio.com.au/ ) and told him that I self diagnosed myself with Piriformis Syndrome he chuckled. I'm sure a lot of people come in self diagnosed. He had me perform some stretching then had me on the massage table. Right away he told me that my back muscles were extremely tight and that's what was causing my the pain in my right bum cheek. Over the next hour he brutalized me but I left feeling quite relaxed. I've decided to book another appointment with him right before the Bridge to Brisbane. He recommended a few different stretching exercises to do....not before I run but stretches to do everyday (that reminds me I haven't done my daily stretches yet). While he was working me over I managed to bring up my idea of the barefoot running experience. He agreed with me about barefoot running. In fact had read some of the same books that I had and owns the Nike free ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Free ) running shoe. His recommendation was to ease into the slimmer running shoe until I feel comfortable. I'm off for a quick 3K run later today. Fingers crossed that I feel no pain.
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I created a group on the miCoach website for all the slowrunners out there. If you are interested in joining the group please sign up on the miCoach site and download the free miCoach app for your smart phone. Here is the link:
http://community-micoach.adidas.com/groups/slowrunning
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