Yup yup---still doin' the runnin' thing. Hey, it ain't without pain. I ain't even gonna try to lie 'bout that, but at least I'm doin' it. Yesterday, I took a leap forward. At least that's the way I choose to view it. I only took one day off in between yesterday and the last time I ran instead of the usual two days. My Achilles was sore, of course, but I felt like it was good enough that I could get a run in which I did. I did alright---26 minutes. After my runs, I do some calf raises. I hang on to a door to help myself go on my tippie toes one leg at a time, and then I let myself down slowly. It's an eccentric sort of contraction because what I'm doing is overloading my calf muscles by helping them up and forcing them to lower my body down. It would be like if someone was helping you do curls or the benchpress by helping you curl or push the weight and then allowing you to bring it back down on your own. That's called an eccentric contraction. Okay, well anyway, so I do 15 of those each leg, and it effin' hurts, and my Achilles is really swollen afterwards, but I figure it's all jacked up anyway from my run, so why not do more to it. I'd hate to run one day and do the calf raises the next day because then I'd be hurting really bad all the time. This way I'm hoping my body is healing overnight and throughout the next day.
It hurts to run in my shoes, so I'm still running barefoot on the grass. I dunno how I'm gonna do the shoe thing later on...

I was reading in the paper this morning about these Great White shark incidences down in southern Australia. They want to put metal mesh out in the water at the area's most popular beaches. Last year an 18-year-old man was ripped from his surfboard and chomped to death, and then there have been some recent incidences. One was quite interesting. This 64-year-old fisherman was fishing and doing something with a crab trap below his aluminum boat when a Great White became airborn next to his boat so close that the fisherman could have touched him! Yeah, those sharks are leaping out of the water these days. I remember seeing a documentary on that, but it was off Cape Horn or somewhere in South Africa; they were leaping up and eating Sea Lions.
Anyway, I'm going down to Adelaide where all this stuff with the sharks is happening. I'll be there and in Melbourne over the next 2 weeks. Lovely. My ass ain't goin' anywhere NEAR that ocean!! Well, maybe I'll go up to my knees. Okay, maybe my ankles...

Happy Holiday,
Andrea

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