Thursday, July 18, 2002

Shin Splints, My New Mortal Enemy...

Man, for all of high school I was oblivious to the concept of shin splints, dozens of my fellow athletes would complain about them on a daily basis and I'd just insist I didn't even know what they felt like. Well, I finally know.

These last few weeks I've been sticking to a running routine and all the sprinting at the end and downhill running on the local Cross Country course at Entradero has started taking its toll on my legs. It's quite painful, immediately after I stop running they begin to throb, and I end up having to wait a couple days before it isn't painful to run again. Theoretically you're supposed to just take six months off or something to let them heal, but that would sort of go backwards with regards to what I'm trying to do with the whole getting into better shape concept. I've been looking into other non-contact forms of exercise like biking and whatnot, might have to start doing more of that instead of running, even though that's really what I need to be working on. Gr.

So it's Thursday night and I don't have much of anything planned for the weekend... Anyone out there in boredom land feel free to look me up, I tend to be available...

I did manage to finish reworking my movielist, so now it's much more useful and will require less effort on a daily basis. Wonder why I wrote movielist as one word. That's not even what the filename is or anything. Weird.

I was bored enough tonight I went Google searching again, with "ucsb blog" popping up some interesting people whose guestbooks I immediately spammed with gibberish. Still refreshing the AFOQT scores at least 3 times a day, tomorrow is day 5 or so of 10, dun, dun dun dun.