A Bean's Tale of Running

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Bethlehem/Scranton, PA, United States
Hi. You may be wondering why the weird title? It may even be the reason you’re at all giving interest to this blog in he first place. Well...I'm not gonna tell you why it’s called this, yet! I'm a Senior Exercise Science student with a final goal of a Doctorate in Physical Therapy. I use to be a swimmer but then became a college student and ate and slept. To my dismay the freshmen 15 had mauled me. So, due to my two unstoppable friends I began to run...actually it was more of an attempt to move on land when I knew the only grace I ever had was in water. I ran my first 5 miler the Bethlehem Christmas City Classic 2008. And, I did another first the Steel Man Triathlon 2009 at Lake Nockamixon. I've now started a running blog which I have no clue how to really manage just like my running. I am now training..I think, I hope for my first Half Marathon and olympic distnace tri. So, join me as I learn how the heck to write a running blog and how to run.

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For all you grammar savvy folks out there be forewarned. This is a blog that is created from the mind of a most enthusiastic endurance athlete..at least I like to think myself one. I live to laugh and I hope I'll bring you a smile. So, please enjoy this, on the side, fun blog about swimming, biking, running, college, and life.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Injury

Well world that doesn't view this page its time for me to present to you some depressing news. I have posterior tibial tendinitis and lets just say it sucks! HAhahaha naw its really not that bad. What is a downer is that I will not be running the Philadelphia half in two weeks, I don't want to cause further damage. I'm going to be taking an anti-inflammatory for 10 days and if the pain goes away supposedly I just slowly work my way back into activity. I plan to swim and do water running. I was a swimmer in high school might as well put that to good use and learn about the positive aspects of water training for running. I also am learning about KT tape or Kinesiology therapeutic tape...its magic. And because of my injury I found many youtube videos reviewing running technique and I now know what to fix when I can start running again. I also don't trust just taking some super motrin and calling it quits, I'll be learning some PT exercises to strengthen my medial ankle and I will also be taking a look into Chi running thanks to Steve the Runner who had a whole episode on it in Phedippidations at www.steverunner.blogspot.com. So, thats what I got for you now.
In other news I will be going to Ireland for 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep, I got into a program through school to take a theology class in Dingle. Secondly, I DON"T HAVE TO TAKE THE GRE's AGAIN! WOOOHHHHOOOO! And the PTCAS is submitted to Arcadia and Pitt and Scranton, I just gotta fix one more little issue with it and we are good to go. Well....better get back to Advanced Sport and Exercise Physiology Studying liver glycogen wont study itself (Ha..ha...that was a lame joke...)

Here's to you...

Bean

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