Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Negative on the new bike... postive on the hammy

Maybe I shouldn't use the word negative or boycott paired with sponsorship in a blog entry. Someone pointed out to me that a very well established and respected will-remain-nameless professional male triathlete came down on athletes with attitudes about sponsorship and the general feeling that some consider it a right and not a privilege to be sponsored and something about athletes boycotting the product if they don't get what they want the same week I did my funny Splish post and through our circle, he could have read my blog and taken it the wrong way.
My title in my last entry "negative on the sponsors" only meant I don't have any. I have never even asked for sponsorship. I'm sure it's all just a complete coincidence but felt a sense to clear the air. My post was in good fun and in celebration of you chickas that gained that generous sponsorship. Period.

Ok.. on to more important things!

Hamstring is coming along. Yipppeee! I found an awesome massage therapist through Carmen and Karen Monks. Both are top age groupers and fellow Team Psycho athletes always seamlessly qualifying for Hawaii and letting it go to rolldown.. too busy, been there done that... They do seem to always have some injury they are nursing coupled with those slots to Hawaii and SWEAR by Randi Wallace N.C.L.M.T. to make them race ready.

Randi got in there and dug dug dug on Friday night and I'm going back today for some more. It felt awesome to have someone in there breakin' up all the crap. I was bruised and sore the next day but it's feeling so much better just having the one treatment thus far.
I have new orthotics, doing core and surrounding muscle group stuff to take the work load off my hamstrings. EVERYTHING around them glutes, lower back, abs are weak and therefore my hamstrings are bearing the load and are prone to break down. This is a common issue especially in triathletes. Who knew?
The other BAD BAD BAD thing I was doing was not warming up the muscle before running on it especially since it is injured. The 1/2 marathon I did was in cold temperatures and I tried to run easy before the start but I needed much more than that. Sitting on a heating pad to really get it there deeply is the key and icing after until it's resolved
Running has been a bit of pain in the ass, no pun intended, but I do take the time to warm up my butt with a heating pad and then start my run minutes after and I can totally feel the difference already. I have better range of motion and it's taken the extreme tightness away.

Last but not least, no new bike for now. I keep getting this uneasiness when I think about the task right now. It's a process and I think I'm probably smart to train and race Disney and CDA on my trusty steed and perhaps after CDA I treat myself to the Carbon Guru I'm lusting after in sweet pink!



I am however treating pinky Elite to fresh Dura Ace components and upgrading to 10 speed. (I currently have 9 speed)
Have an awesome day!

13 comments:

Kellye Mills said...

I'm glad to see you coming along!! Massage therapist are the BEST, even if they do make us really hurt! No worries on the bike, it's not the bike, but the chick driving it!!

BreeWee said...

YAY! I am so happy the hammy is healing up! THAT is very important, now you will be ready to rock n' roll at ironman!
Oh boy, I too got crap because I called gatorade "crap" and I had to change my post to say "sports drink". Funny how we get busted for our "personal opinions"! I would fully sponsor you if I had a product or a lot of money to give you! You are too cool not to endorse something for someone!
AND as for the bike, I full on agree with Kel! it's the power in the machine (you) not the bike...

Mel said...

Glad you are getting the hammy worked out and soon enough you will be full speed back into the training :)

Onto your Sponsor post...It is really sad if someone miss read or took it into a negative manner,,,As it was easily read as you were congratulating your friends for their new cool sponsorships.....and was adding a little fun in there!! AS we all know that sponsorship is a HUGE honor and by any means were you trying to offend anyone...so if it was your blog they were talking about they need to lighten up :)

Pedergraham said...

Well...as I am always the last one to get a joke and never laughed at the right places during Monty Python, I think my opinion should count a lot when I say that I completely understood your post about sponsorship!
I am glad that you are feeling better. I am sure that you would have run my butt off down in Hyannis, but it would have been worth the trip to buyt some Hanky you-know-whats.
Are you going to race at Mooseman this year? I just remember this tall blond girl in a Team Psycho outfit on a pink bike blow by me near the end of the bike--and I was like, wow, that must be TriGirlPink from Slowtwitch!

Eileen Swanson said...

SWEET! SO HAPPY for you! I knew that hammy would get better quick. I was praying for you ;-) I can't wait to see you at CDA!

Off to Oz....

E

kerrie said...

i thought your post was hilarious, especially the pic that went with it! some people need to stop taking themselves so seriously....

i'm glad you are getting some massage on your hammy - that should help, especially if they are also helping you with range of motion. you still have plenty of time to ease into your mileage for CdA.

Pedergraham said...

P.S. Are you trying to shake the water out of your ear?
-Danielle

Trigirlpink said...

Just being goofy. Eyes crossed adds to the effect nicely, no?

Trigirlpink said...

ok.... one eye at least.

Brooke Myers said...

Some people seriously have nothing better to do than take what one says out of context.
I knew exactly what you were referring to (maybe because I too am negative on sponsors) and as I saw the pics. w/ everyone elses I was laughing and thinking none here for me...

Oh well, that aside glad the hammy is feeling somewhat better.

Anonymous said...

I leave for a few days and miss the whole "sponsor post"? I read yours but missed WHO was all bent out of shape about your post....Tell them not to read it. Seriously. Glad your Hammy is doing better! Jen H.

Mel said...

Yes...was on Splish...those suits are for blogger friend KateMonster/Katie :) See how everyone has your back sista :)

kerrie said...

ooooh aren't you clever! and right! i will have to fill you in on all the details later. G2 is pretty livid, lol.