Notes
Okay what the hell since when does runningahead log you out after 15 minutes??? Had to retype all this garbage.
Had a really encouraging appointment with Mike Curnen this morning. This dude/CMPT is just so damn good. Biggest takeaway is that I don't have any dire issues or gross problems to resolve. Mike said my overall mobility and strength is actually pretty decent. What??? He did a really thorough eval, a little different/more specific the the ones I've previously had and talked me through a lot of it so I think I understood about as much as my pea brain will let me.
So basically the direct cause of my pain is a tight peroneal tendon (outside of lower leg attaching to foot somewhere). Also turns out my ankle pain may be foot pain and turns out I'm not sure what the different between my ankle and foot is. Tightness is probably from rolling my ankle in the past which could have been some inversion spraining going on that I didn't exactly address (read: mostly ran through). That tightness had caused me to keep my ankle in a more everted position and make myself more prone to eversion sprains/stress. Definitely some good (bad) stress happening on the inside of my ankle because that is where most of my pain has been over the last couple weeks. But what set it off? Straw that broke the Daniel's back? Too many miles? Topos? Never recovered from ankle rolls? Bad luck? Bad genes? Bad attitude? Bad karma? Bad hombre? Racing hard in spikes?
Also, my internal rotation of my left hip is poor not because of poor mobility but because of poor stability. I'm not engaging my left abs enough to stabilize my hip enough to rotate internally enough. Well enough is enough fuckers. TIL abs/hips work together to stabilize the pelvis and if they don't then hip stability and range of motion is compromised. I think.
Mike is having me do an exercise to improve left abdominal activation that at my appointment already showed improvement in my internal rotation. Also I'm rolling the bejesus out of my peroneal with a lax ball and foam roller and that helped immediately. Doesn't make it perfect but maybe in a week or so I'll be nearly perfect? Too much optimism? Here goes. Seeing Mike once a week for the next 6 weeks at which point he promised I'll be ready to qualify for the Olympics.
Added later, exercises:
1. Self release left peroneal: sit with left shin almost horizontal, put ball somewhere on outside calf, move ankle in up/down and circles. Repeat on other sore spots.
2. SUPINE LEFT ABDOMINAL: lie on your back with left knee bent / left hamstring on (a little), right arm reaching to ceiling (optional), left arm reaching to left heel (resisted) and floor, head turned to left, and BELLY BREATHING (emphasis on exhale), for 60s x5-8 reps daily