I'm glad you mentioned it again, Jesse. Forgot to click it earlier. Nice!
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Sep 03, 2009 4:31:23 pm PDT #6828 of 30001
Vortex - Sep 03, 2009 4:34:41 pm PDT #6829 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
sarameg, maybe you should hydrate more? I get sore muscles if I work out without drinking enough water.
Kat - Sep 03, 2009 4:35:08 pm PDT #6830 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Shin splints are about overdevelopping or overtaxing a calf muscle OR it could be a tightening of you plantar fasciitis. Stretch before you walk and after.
That's my unscientific opinion.
I'm trying a different wiki service this year for my class wiki. Interesting, but the accounts are a pain in the butt.
JenP - Sep 03, 2009 4:44:22 pm PDT #6831 of 30001
Instead of the usual grade offerings, I contemplated these grades instead: Epic Win, Win, Meh, Fail, Epic Fail.
That's funny, Kat. I would love it.
That ad is awesome. Go, Maine.
sarameg - Sep 03, 2009 4:47:47 pm PDT #6832 of 30001
I'm very, very hydrated. 2+ liters during the work day. I'm wondering. It might be stupid hormones (my muscles and joints get funky around this time of the month. Knees will unexpectedly collapse on stairs, hips get wonky.) Anyway, starting yesterday, stretching, even all day at work. Don't like it though. Like the rolling rhythm and everything locking up 1/2 mile in means I fight the 1/2 mile back, no rhythm, cranky. I haven't had shin splints since I used to run. 22 years ago.
Anywho, I'm giving it a break tomorrow, I think. Going to try the pool. I just want to be able to still do my 10 miles over the weekend. Weather is lovely.
billytea - Sep 03, 2009 4:53:45 pm PDT #6833 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
True. The funniest bit to me is when the male hummingbirds get so busy defending their territory that the female hummingbirds sit contentedly together on the feeder eating, and the male hummingbirds never actually get to eat.
There are many species in this kind of situation. The most extreme may be the antechinus, where pretty much the entire male cohort drops dead from exhausstion and stress by the end of the mating season - having most likely lost much of their hair and teeth. On the plus side, their testicles swell to be roughly the size of their head.
Java cat - Sep 03, 2009 5:05:08 pm PDT #6834 of 30001
Not javachik
shin splints
Racewalking coach Jack Bray [link] always said that shin splits were from reaching too much, that speed in walking should come from a faster turn-over, not from reaching/stretching your forward leg to gain a little ground. Try it, see if it works for you.
Java cat - Sep 03, 2009 5:12:48 pm PDT #6835 of 30001
Not javachik
There's an art reception just down the hall. I have a glass of champagne, sushi, cheese, homemade cookies, and someone's playing a really nice jazz bass set in the lobby. I'm not getting much work done, though.
Hil R. - Sep 03, 2009 6:06:44 pm PDT #6836 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Radio talk show guy, on the Obama speech to schoolkids:
And Chris Stigall, a Kansas City talk show host, said, “I wouldn’t let my next-door neighbor talk to my kid alone; I’m sure as hell not letting Barack Obama talk to him alone.”
Huh? [link]
Jesse - Sep 03, 2009 6:33:46 pm PDT #6837 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That guy has gotten Obama confused with Santa -- he can't actually make it to every kid's house in one day.