Hey Guys!
So, February 26th it is, and I thought I’d spice up the shoe drawing with a little help from my amigos! Here ya go:
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The Enries:
raulgonemobile
Men’s New Balance MR859
Noah
Men’s Asics Gel Stratus
Evelyn
Women’s New Balance WR909
Abby
Women’s Reebok Swara
Josh
Men’s Adidas adiSTAR
Ethan
Men’s Nike Air Max Assail
Emily
Women’s Nike Air Max Dream
Blaine
Men’s Saucony Ignition
Marathon Maritza
Women’s Saucony ProGrid Omni
Amy
Women’s Saucony Pro Grid Ride
Alisa
Women’s Mizuno Wave Rider
Nina
Women’s Adidas Adizero
Ben
Men’s Nike Air Max Torch
Nicolas
Men’s Puma Voltaic
tfh
Women’s Reebok Premier Verona
Mel Dittrick
Women’s Pearl Izumi Syncro Pace
Ron
Men’s Nike Air Structure Triax+
Kristen
Women’s Asics Gel Cumulus
In other news, I ran 4 miles yesterday, the first three at a 8.66 pace - the fastest I’ve ever ran that distance…woo hoo!
I’m doing a little gym/stairs action this afternoon.
Tomorrow is 15 miles! Yao!
Have a good night everyone!
>> Posted on February 26st, 2009
Anyone else suffer from long-run-induced-butt-pain?
My last two long runs have left me with a sharp pain right where the back of my leg meets my bottom. I did the 7 on the 7th with Julianne and some other bloggers, along with her husband. He said the pain is a pinched sciatic nerve…sounds kinda bad right?
Well, I looked into it a bit, and it seems that stretching can help. So can Advil 
. And massage is a nice treat as well (guess what my Valentine’s day present was!).
It seems that the irritation of the sciatic nerve is caused by piriformis syndrome. The condition is apparently 6 times more prevalent in women than in men. One cause is outwardly pointed toes…definitely me!
Here is my new favorite stretch:
Piriformis stretch:
In other news, I haven’t blogged for awhile. Sorry about that! I think I needed a break from cyber interaction. Between blogging, commenting, twittering, daily mile-ing, runcast.tv-ing, not to mention facebook-ing…I was feeling a bit spent. 
I think I’ve recuperated though, and I should be back on the blogger train!
I have been keeping up with marathon training. I did 14 miles last Friday, and I’ll be doing 15 this coming Thursday. My BF is planning to do the first 13 of the 15 with me. I think I should strap jet engines to the back of my shoes so I can keep up with him (he’s pretty speedy).
My favorite non-running activities in the past couple weeks:
1. Hitting strangers over the head with a pillow on Valentine’s day at the ENORMOUS SF pillow fight downtown. It was SSSOOOO much fun!
2. I went to a sock puppet party. I dressed my sock puppet up like Blagojevich, named it Blagojesock, and tried to sell Basock Obama’s Senate seat. He he!
>> Posted on February 18st, 2009
