Take care of yourself

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The last two weeks at the beginning of my boxing class, while jumping rope, I strained by right calf.
It felt fine all week, then in the last minute of the first round of jumping rope, it gets hurt again.
I know what to do about it: rest, ice, etc. etc. But I wonder why it happened.
I've been going to that class since the winter and haven't had that problem until now. Earlier this month, I finished rehabbing a sprained MCL on that leg, could that have something to do with it?
I put on a few pounds while I was recovering from the knee injury, could that have something to do with it?
Man this bothers me.

 

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Actual calf muscle, or shin?

 

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Calf muscle, right in the thick part of it.

 

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Generally speaking, one injury can lead to another. As one part of the body weakens, another part has to take up the slack. So it could be associated with your MCL injury. Even if your knee is healed, you might subconsciously favor it, placing more of the impact shock on your calf.

It's more likely, though, that I'm full of shit. So get it checked out. Also, are you wearing different shoes?

 

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Same ones I always have when doing those workouts: wrestling shoes.

 

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Like these?

 

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I got nothin. Good luck. Sucks to be hurt, especially when it prevents you from working out. I tweaked my back once and an oblique once, and that sucks because you need both to be able to do about anything. Thankfully I haven't done that in a few years.

 

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I rode the bike today for about two minutes. I pushed myself to get on and ride during the morning time trial. I cranked it up to about 23 mph. By the time, I hit 30 seconds, I was down to 21 mph. Fifteen seconds later, I decided it's time for a break. So I watched the time trial from the couch. Hey, it's Saturday. Plus, my legs are fatigued. They're slightly sore, too. But most just fatigued.

 

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Kids, this is why you don't screw around most of the summer and then miss two weeks on top of that: my workout today.

Weighted pullups, one rep each. Got 10, 15, halfway twice at 20, halfway twice at 15, 12.5, 12.5, halfway at 12.5, halfway at 10. When I did this workout about two months ago, I got up to 35 pounds and halfway up twice at 40. Crikey.

Overhead squat, 15 kilos (or 33.069 pounds), burpees, 21-15-9 in 11:53. I was sucking wind.

Row 1k in 3:50.

Ugh,
Joe

 

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That is this Saturday. It is the longest bike ride I will ever have attempted. It's only 170 miles and 9,544 feet of ascent.


Hydrate, refuel, hydrate, refuel, hyrdate, etc., etc.
That's the game plan.

Goal: 10 hours.

 

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Damn. That's a haul, Idaho.

I thought I heard something during the Tour De France about guys having a shot. Maybe I heard it wrong. But I could swear that's the word they used. At first, I thought of whiskey. Do those guys have to pump themselves with a shot of something?

Also, one thing I noticed is that the downhill really doesn't require any pedaling. So I guess that's one plus when you have hills. You can coast a little. The downside, obviously, is the work you have to do to reach the top. Ouch. That stuff sucks.

There are no hills where I live. I'm familiar with climbing, but I've never done it on a bike with different gears. Can you set the gears so that there's not much resistance? Or is that just not possible?

 

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It's just B12, that's all their taking. Honest!
/Ricardo Ricco

If the downhill is a really long one, like this race with about a 30-mile descent after the 40-mile climb, you can't afford to just coast. Your legs will think the race is over and shut down. Suddenly you've gt 30 miles left to go but your legs are cramping up.

So you need to spin them at least a little bit. And for most of us, we'll still need to pedal for power. The coast would get us an average 25-30 mph speed for much of the descent, but just a little effort will pull it up to 30-35 mph and that can mean 5-10 minutes off the overall time. While the time is secondary for me, for most 'racers' it is important because they want to beat the next guy and be higher in the final results.

My bike is set up with a triple chainring. For many racers, that's a sign of wussiness. But for me, it's needed to get up the long, steep climbs. It's lovingly called the Granny Gear and I'm not afraid to use it. On shorter training rides I try to stick with a higher gear and hurt the legs a little. But for something like this, I'll put it in low gear and try to maintain a 7-10 mph pace for the real climbing and a 10-15 mph pace for the gradual ascent.

But all that work is usually worth it when you get to fly at 40+ mph down the mountain.