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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis team wrapped a stellar weekend against some of the top competition around today at the Ned and Tina Jacobs Lobo Tennis Winter Kickoff. The Islanders (3-3) topped UC Irvine 4-3 earlier today before taking a 4-2 match against Arizona in the final match at the Linda Estes Tennis Center.
"I never like to single out one guy because we are a team, a family, and we win collectively, but I thought the courage and resilience that Guillaume Rauseo showed was remarkable," Director of Tennis Steve Moore said. "To have six dual match points in the second set, lose them all, and come back and play as great a third set as he did with the whole match riding on him showed incredible courage.
"I also thought that the grit and toughness that Peter Nagy showed to beat a guy who is a very difficult matchup showed incredible toughness. Paul Cook played an amazing first match and Ricardo Mayagoitia is as tough as they come. The way he battled back through injuries and never makes excuses, but the thing I'm the most proud of is the spirit and energy our team showed. They pulled these guys through and pumped them up constantly."
The Islanders and Wildcats battled early on with Arizona notching the first point of the night in singles play on court five. Mario Urquidi downed Pietro Jordao 6-2, 6-1, but the Islanders answered with a point of their own on court two. Mayagoitia breezed past Kieren Thompson 6-1, 6-2 to knot the score at 1-1. The Wildcats rallied back to push ahead 2-1 after Sumeet Shinde picked up a 6-3, 6-3 victory in the No. 4 spot over Javier Pujol. Cook followed with his first singles win of his career with a 6-2, 6-2 win in the No. 6 spot over Will Kneale to even the score at 2-2.
Nagy, who returned to the Islanders' lineup this weekend after taking the fall off, padded the Islanders lead to 3-2 with a three-set win over Fredrik Ask in the No. 1 position. Nagy fell short 7-6 (8) in the tiebreaker in the first set before capturing the next two sets 6-3, 6-2. With the match on the line for the Wildcats and the threat of doubles play on the line for the Islanders, A&M - Corpus Christi once again pulled through with the help of Rauseo. The sophomore sealed a 7-6 (5) first set win over Naoki Takeda in the No. 3 slot, before dropping an unbelievable 19-17 tiebreaker in the second set to force a third set. In the final frame, Rauseo rolled on to win 6-4 and clinch the victory for the Islanders.
"I don't know if I've ever seen a tiebreaker go 19-17, but to lose that tiebreaker and keep bringing energy and spirit that's the kind of stuff that makes you proud of your team," Moore added. "That couldn't have happened without these guys constantly pumping each other up and fighting for each other.
"Arizona is a very good team that we have a ton of respect for, so this took all we had."
The Islanders wrap the weekend with a 3-3 record after beating Arizona twice in thrilling matches and splitting a pair of 4-3 matches with UC Irvine. The No. 72-ranked Lobos topped the Islanders twice.
The Ned and Tina Jacobs Lobo Tennis Winter Kickoff featured the new shortened college format where singles is played first and the match stops when the team reaches four points. In the case of a 3-3 tie, the winner will be determined by who takes the best two of three 10-point tiebreakers in doubles play.
The men's team will remain on the road to face New Mexico State and Utah State in Las Cruces, N.M. on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24, respectively.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis) and follow them on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersTennis).
Tennis Match Results
University of Arizona vs. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
1/19/2014 at Albuquerque, N.M.
#67 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 4, University of Arizona 2
Singles competition:
1. Peter Nagy (AMCC) def. Fredrik Ask (ARIZ) 6-7 (8-10), 6-3, 6-2
2. Ricardo Mayagoitia (AMCC) def. Kieren Thompson (ARIZ) 6-1, 6-2
3. Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) def. Naoki Takeda (ARIZ) 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (17-19), 6-4
4. Sumeet Shinde (ARIZ) def. Javier Pujol (AMCC) 6-3, 6-3
5. Mario Urquidi (ARIZ) def. Pietro Jordao (AMCC) 6-2, 6-1
6. Paul Cook (AMCC) def. Will Kneale (ARIZ) 6-2, 6-2
Match Notes:
University of Arizona 2-3
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 3-3; National ranking #67
Order of finish: Singles (5,2,4,6,1,3)
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Ridgecrest Police officers, with assistance from the Kern County Sheriff's Department, arrested a 27-year-old Wofford Heights man Wednesday on attempted murder charges.
Joshua Connolly is accused of hitting Anthony Segovia with an SUV during the early morning hours of Feb. 24.
According to an RPD press release, officers from the Ridgecrest Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of South Broadway Street and East Church Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. regarding a hit-and-run traffic collision.
Officers reportedly located Segovia lying on the ground not moving. He was transported to Kern Medical Center and treated for his injuries.
Witnesses reportedly told officers Connolly was driving a white SUV and attempted to hit Segovia and several other subjects walking with him.
Police say witnesses indicated when Connolly failed to hit Segovia with the vehicle the first time, he turned around and attempted a second time hitting Segovia causing him to go over the hood and fall into the street.
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Detectives from the Ridgecrest Police Department with assistance from the Kern County Sheriff's Department located and arrested Connolly at a residence in Wofford Heights.
He is scheduled to be arraigned March 1 in Kern County Superior Court Ridgecrest Branch, and is in custody in the Kern County Jail Central Receiving Facility in lieu of $500,000 bail.
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We are conducting an assessment of the world's forest decline and protection across three major biomes—tropical, boreal, and temperate. The protected areas of the world dataset (WCMC 1997), an estimate of original forest cover, current forest cover, frontier forest (Bryant et al. 1997) and Holdridge Life Zones (Leemans, 1990) were combined and analyzed in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Over the last 8,000 years forests in all biomes have severely declined. Temperate forests have declined the most (65%) followed by tropical forests (45%) then boreal forests (13%). Temperate forests are also the most rare forest type. Of the remaining frontier forests-large undisturbed forest areas-51% are in the tropical zone, 45% are in the boreal zone, and 4% occur in the temperate zone. Less than 5% of all remaining temperate forest is currently protected. Less than 4% of all boreal forest is protected, and more than 15% of tropical forests are currently protected.
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Pure plastic love. It lives on desks. Its lives on shelves. But in Japan, it lives everywhere. Figures are more than collectibles. They're sculpted fantasy that reflect the artistic tradition of the country's past and its present.
In Japan, there are events dedicated to figures and figure collecting. The summer Wonder Festival was recently held in Tokyo, dazzling visitors with figurines from famous figure-makers as well as ones sculpted by hobbyists. The figures ranged from super-heroes to bikini babes to sexually-explicit S&M themed pieces.
The range of figures in Japan is astounding. But it's not only the range, it's just how figure-crazy the country is.
But it isn't just collecting figures. Websites like Moeyo.com specialize in the latest figure news and reviews, while, increasingly, fans upload their own photos of figures. "Many folks have a small booth at home for photography," Tokyo-based blogger Danny Choo told Kotaku.
For figure connoisseurs, taking photos isn't simply a matter of turning a camera on a figure. "Figures look very different, depending on the angle," explained Choo. It's a matter of finding that picture-perfect angle. And, within the last few years, more and more collectors are taking their beloved figures and snapping photos. Using perspective, the photos give the appearance that the figures are actually life-sized.
Hardcore figure collectors pay a premium for limited edition statues or one-of-a-kind originals. Figure collecting is universal, yet figures in Japan are different from figures in the West—in terms of subject matter and craftsmanship.
Whether they're based on Star Wars, The Terminator, or even Iron Man, Western figures are often based on movies or cinematic video games; the figures have life-like realism and exist comfortably in our 3D space. It's ultimately all about the source material, and in the West, the source material is perhaps more realistic.
In Japan, physical features are exaggerated—they're more what the West would call "cartoony", a trait that does exist in Western figures. The reason why it's far more prevalent in Japanese figures is that the influence of manga and anime is felt more in video games and the rest of pop culture. The West excels in 3D creations that emphasize weight, heft, and physics, while many Japanese game creators still rely on 2D imagery. Historically, there is precedent for Japan to focus on "flat" illustrations, something that they've done for centuries and something that well-known modern Japanese artists like Takashi Murakami continues to explore.
"Of course, there are Japanese figures based on polygonal creations, but many are based on 2D manga or anime characters, which ultimately doesn't make them very realistic," Japanese blogger Monpuchi of website Moeyo. "The figures end up being 2.5D, with their roots in illustration." They don't look real, but they don't quite look fake, because at the same time they continuously remind you that they are an anime character, they also remind you that they are a figure. The attempt at realism is there, maybe through delicate sculpting or decorative paint, but the realism is found in a game or anime and not in our world.
Japan has a long history with dolls. There's a doll festival, the Hinamatsuri, that started during the Heian Period (8th century to 12th century). But in the immediate years after World War II, Japan went toy crazy. "The easiest way for many companies to make money was to retool their factories from military weapons or supplies to make toys," game localizer and author Matt Alt told Kotaku. "The toy industry was a quick method to jumpstart the economy." Tin toys ruled the 1950s and 1960s, until the advent of vinyl toys in the late 1960s. The decade saw new kaiju (giant monsters) like Gamera and Mothra and new TV shows like Ultra Q and Ultraman. According to Alt, the kaiju vinyl toy boom during the late 1960s was akin to the Pokémon boom during the 1990s. It was during the 1990s, after Gundam models were sold to adults as a reaction to the kiddy robots and kiddy robot shows, that things changed.
Up until the mid 1980's, all anime were sponsored by toy companies, but as Matt Alt explained, more and more original video anime (OVA) were released that were created independent from toy makers. Fans wanted to own figurine versions of the characters, helping fuel figure collecting, which might have previously been seen as simply buying older, retro figures. According to Alt, "Owning things is very otaku." Original video anime, which were made possible by video tape, allowed fans to own new anime in a way that was previously thought unthinkable.
"During the 1990s, there was the rise of beautiful young girl figures with characters from anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion getting figures," explained Monpuchi. Since fans were attracted to the drawn quality of these female characters, the figures were not realistic representations of the human form; however, they were realistic renderings of the anime original. Things like capsule toys, which contained little toy statues fans could easily assemble, helped bring figurines to a larger audience.
The shift from robots to beautiful young girls was a major one, and it reflected the changing tastes of Japanese otaku (nerds). While previous generations of collectors decorated their rooms with large mechas, robots, and monsters, many otaku of the late 1990s and onward began favoring cute female figures. Neon Genesis Evangelion was the bridge between the large mecha fandom and the growing beautiful-young-girl fandom. This conicided with the lower manufacturing costs and improved figure-making tech, which lead to better looking figures as well as ridiculous, ableit short-lived, innovations (such as squeezable boobs).
Figures change with the age. They are a representative of a segment of Japanese culture, what it likes, what it loves, and what it finds fetching. There's been a push to call figure sculpture Art with a capital A. The country's most famous artist, Takashi Murakami, worked with Osaka-born figure sculptor Bome, creating a series of bishoujo, or "beautiful young girl", figures and even exhibiting at major art galleries in New York and Paris.
Bome, however, doesn't view himself as an artist, but rather, a "modeler". "I don't understand art," Bome told author Patrick Galbraith in The Otaku Encyclopedia. "I don't understand the heart of art at all, and the border dividing what's art and what's not is unclear to me."
It's unclear to me as well, and frankly, it's largely irrelevant. Figure makers come from a long artistic tradition in Japan that spans centuries—even if they're making doe-eyed schoolgirl figures. The attention to detail is, according to Matt Alt, akin to what you'd find with netsuke miniature sculptures. The interlocking parts, while maybe not directly influenced, were used in Buddhist statue sculptures.
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Robert Bley-Vroman was appointed interim chancellor of UH Manoa on September 1, 2014. As the chief executive officer of the campus, he is responsible for administration and management, including providing leadership for academic units and facilitating success of the academic enterprise.
Before his appointment as chancellor, Bley-Vroman served as dean of the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, one of the larger units at the university and one of four colleges of arts and sciences. He earned doctorate and master of arts degrees in linguistics and a MA in Germanics from the University of Washington. His undergraduate degree in German is from Pomona College in Claremont, California.
A faculty member at UH Manoa since 1987, Bley-Vroman is a former chair of the UH Manoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee. He was also chair of the Department of Second Language Studies, director of the Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center and founder and first director of the National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Before coming to UH Manoa, he taught in Romania at Universitatea din Cluj (English and applied linguistics), the University of Texas at Austin (linguistics) and at the University of Michigan, where he was director of courses for the English Language Institute. He also served as project manager at the interstate consortium SEARCH Group (Sacramento) for the national project on criminal justice terminology (Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration).
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One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is the message embodied in the film "Waste Land." This documentary, nominated for an Academy Award, is about more than recycling - it's about creating beauty in the face of adversity.
The Eagle Valley Alliance for Sustainability will host a screening of the film Thursday night at Loaded Joe's in Avon as part of the "First Thursday Film Series."
"Waste Land," a profoundly moving film, chronicles Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz on his ambitious journey to document life at an enormous landfill in Rio de Janeiro. There, the Brazilian-born artist photographs the catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, and transforms their photos into poignant portraits created with recyclable materials. The Huffington Post wrote "'Waste Land' is a heart-warming tale of human dignity and innovation."
"We decided to show this film because we like to help people recycle, but we love to get the message out that reducing the amount of trash you create has an even greater environmental impact," said Tracy Andersen, director of the Eagle Valley Alliance for Sustainability. "When you see the colossal mountain of trash on the big screen, you can't help but want to produce less of it in your own life."
The film shows how our discarded materials can have resplendent second lives. Rather than tossing things away, we can often reuse them, and thus reduce our waste stream.
"In addition," said Andersen, "we wanted to show a film that is hopeful. When you think about the environment and the multitude of threats to our land, water and air, the tendency is to get depressed. Yet 'Waste Land' delivers an uplifting message and turns what we perceive as ugliness into art."
This series, organized by the Alliance, Slow Food Vail Valley and Loaded Joe's, runs through August and focuses on environmental issues.
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Diabetes is a pervasive problem in America, a cultural epidemic with wide-ranging and potentially severe consequences. According to the 2011 National Diabetes Factsheet, 25.8 million people or 8.3 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes at an estimated annual total cost of about $245 billion. 1
November is National Diabetes Month and Delta Dental wants to remind people of the well-documented connection between diabetes and oral health. 2 People with diabetes tend to develop periodontal (gum) disease earlier in life, and more severely. Though it is often painless, Delta Dental cautions people suffering from diabetes to be mindful of its warning signs. These can include bad breath, bleeding gums after brushing or flossing, red, swollen or tender gums, or changes in the way your teeth fit when you bite. Unfortunately, many people ignore those periodontal red flags until it's too late.3
Individuals often ignore the warning signs of periodontal disease because there is usually no pain involved. So they will brush a little better to get rid of the bleeding or use mouthwash to hide their bad breath. The best idea is to schedule regular visits to your dentist to make sure that you are not developing periodontal disease.
Maintaining regular dental visits is particularly critical for patients suffering from diabetes.Oral diseases such as tooth decay and gum disease are often reversible if they are diagnosed and treated early. Dentists can also check for other common mouth conditions that afflict people with diabetes such as dry mouth, ulcers and infections. Periodontal disease and other mouth conditions may also be a sign that other medical conditions exist elsewhere in the body. Depending on their findings, the dentist might advise patients to seek a medical consultation.
Even before visiting the dentist, patients can use an online risk assessment tool (such as Delta Dental's myDentalScore) to answer a series of questions that can gauge their risk levels for gum disease, oral cancer and other serious oral health problems. Additional lifestyle best practices for people with diabetes include controlling blood sugar, brushing and flossing daily, and quitting smoking.
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Diabetes Fact Sheet, 2011. http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/ndfs_2011.pdf.
2 National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Diabetes and Oral Health. http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/Diabetes/default.htm
3American Diabetes Association. 2013 Diabetes Facts. http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-statistics/


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3Strand, London
4 Wednesday, 12th January 2000
10Claimant -and-
14The Claimant appeared in person
15MR RICHARD RAMPTON Q.C. (instructed by Messrs Davenport Lyons and Mishcon de Reya) appeared on behalf of the First and
16Second Defendants
17MISS HEATHER ROGERS (instructed by Davenport Lyons) appeared on behalf of the First Defendant Penguin Books Limited
18MR ANTHONY JULIUS (of Mishcon de Reya) appeared on behalf of
19the Second Defendant Deborah Lipstadt
21(Transcribed from the stenographic notes of Harry Counsell & Company,
Clifford's Inn, Fetter Lane, London EC4
22Telephone: 020-7242-9346)
1 DAY 2 Wednesday, 12th January 2000
2 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, Mr Irving
3 MR IRVING: May it please your Lordship. This morning I wish
4to kick off by playing to the court excerpts from two, or
5possibly three, video tapes which are of relevance. I
6will explain what the video tapes are, if I may, my Lord.
7The first one is one minute 20 seconds long. It is a
8postwar German newsreel, January 1948, and the very first
9section on it, fortunately, is the reporting of the end of
10the Auschwitz trial where a number of Defendants, rather
11as at Nuremberg, had been prosecuted on this occasion by
12the Polish Government. Auschwitz is in Poland. They had
13been prosecuted for crimes against humanity, and sentence
14was passed a week or two before this trial, before this
15newsreel was shown.
16 So it is a newsreel showing the judge handing
17down sentence. The relevance is purely the newsreel
18statement from the judge's findings of how many people
19died in Auschwitz which is a matter of contention. We are
20told by the expert witnesses in this case that anybody who
21says the figure is less than is now commonly assumed is a
22"Holocaust denier". I purely wish to show that there is
23a broad band of opinion over the years as to what the
24figures were
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: The judge is expressing whatever view he does
26express on the basis of, what, the evidence he had heard
1during the course of the trial or what?
2 MR IRVING: A very lengthy trial, which ended with the
3execution of a number of people. We see on this short
4film the hearing of evidence, the hearing of witness
5statements, the taking of depositions, the forensic
6examination of the site which makes the statement that he
7utters all the more important. My Lord, do you have the
8short transcript of the passage? I have it in German
9 MR JUSTICE GRAY: If I have, I do not think I know where it
10is. I have not seen it
11 MR IRVING: I can provide one, my Lord
12 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Or has it been handed in? Is it somewhere in
13the files because there are a few loose documents
14 MR IRVING: There is one. If I can kick off by showing that
16 MR IRVING: It is a tracking error, I think, my Lord
17 MR JUSTICE GRAY: You are having a quite a task if you are
18trying to cope with that as well as everything else. I do
19not know if there is anyone else around who is more
20conversant with it than you are? We are getting a sound
21now. Shall we come back to that one? It may be we do not
22get the same problem with your next one
23 MR IRVING: Let me just read out what the translation is, if
24I may
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, please do
26 MR IRVING: This is a translation of the German text:
1 "In Cracow the trial of the principal culprits
2for the Auschwitz concentration camp came to an end before
3a Polish court. The Defendants were German camp guards or
4members of the German camp administration staff.
5Unheard-of atrocities against the camp inmates,
6particularly against female prisoners, were proved against
7them. Altogether nearly 300,000 people" -- this is the
8part I am relying upon, my Lord -- "from the most
9different nations died in the Auschwitz concentration
10camp. The court sentenced 23 of the accused to death, six
11to life sentences and 10 to lengthy jail terms; one was
13 It then continues with the same statement: "The
14Auschwitz concentration camp remains as it stands today,
15as a monument of shame to the lasting memory of its
16300,000 victims". Of course, nowadays, my Lord, we are
17told a very different picture of Auschwitz, but that was
18within the immediacy of the event
19 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I appreciate that no one is being too fussed,
20I understand why not, about the admissibility of the
21evidence, but this reads to me not like the judge or the
22court talking but some sort of newsreel
23 MR IRVING: It is a German official newsreel produced in early
241948 at the time that Germany was under allied occupation
25and all the media outlets in Germany were licensed by the
26allied authorities
1 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, but, I mean, in terms of evidence, I am
2not sure this has terribly much weight, does it
3 MR IRVING: Except, my Lord, for two arguments here: firstly,
4if the allegation is that anybody who states figure less
5than one million or 4 million, whichever figure we look
6at, for Auschwitz is a Holocaust denier, then, denial,
7apparently started very early; and, secondly, if this was
8one of the documents before me at the time I wrote my
9book, my Lord, then I could hardly be accused of
10manipulation or distortion if I choose to rely on this
11document rather than on the evidence of someone like
12Rudolf Hess
13 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Where am I going to put it because I think we
14must have a system of finding a home for every document
15that is handed in, if you are going to rely on it
16 MR IRVING: My Lord, that should be in the bundles of
17transcripts, in my submission
18 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Perhaps the Defendants can help because let
19us be sensible about putting them were they belong
20 MR RAMPTON: Yes. I suspect what is going to happen during the
21course of this trial is that we are going to create new
22files as we go along. The resources of Her Majesty's
23courts probably do not run to that. So I think what we
24had better do is, as these documents build up, is put them
25in files -- this is a document I have never seen before
26either -- and try to provide an identical file for each
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You may not believe me when I tell you all that I have a sustained a 5th metatarsal fracture on my right foot after jumping on the bed....well, jumping off the bed. As i landed improperly on my foot and it buckled and i suffered a psuedo jones fracture of the right 5th metatarsal. My orthopod says it's right between a midshaft and jones fracture. I'm in an Aircast for now. I can bear weight with my boot on but my orthopod asked for a week of couch sitting, minimal weight bearing to go to the BR and kitchen and RICE. I will get re-evaluated on 10/29 to see how things are healing and to then see if internal fixation will be necessary. He does not think that it will. Anyway!....how the hell can i stay fit while not being able to run/walk/bike/swim at this time...or for the next 6 -12 weeks? He laughed at me when I asked about running a 10K in March. States my bone won't be ready for running for at least 8-12 months. What am I going to do. I have been doing sit ups and push ups but I don't want to be lop sided...strong on top but weak on bottom. I am worried about losing strength in my right LE and gaining weight. I'm already in a recovery mode despite the fact that this injury is only 4 days old. Any suggestions/help would be appreciated! I don't want to get mushy during recovery....especially when it's going to take place over the holidays. What the heck was I thinking jumping on the bed?!!??
I sustained the same injury in August of 2006 while playing basketball. I pushed-off and felt the crunch. It took me only a month to recover and here is how I did it: First, I got used to driving my car with my left foot. Next, got used to taking my air cast on and off multiple times per day. Then I went to GNC and got a concentrated Calcium and vitamin D supplement and went to Henry's and got the homeopathic remedy, symphytum. In addition to this, I purchased a pull buoy and did all of my workouts in the pool without kicking. By the time I had my follow-up x-ray, the fracture had filled in and I got out of the boot. My lower back was sore as my body realigned itself. It was pretty bad for the first two days and I've been fine ever since. I cannot tell I ever had a problem with that area to this day, just over one year ago. I hope your recovery goes as well as mine. From all this, I want the biggest take-away to be staying as positive as you possibly can during your healing process. I cannot stress this enough. Positive vibes equal positive results and this cannot be more true for healing yourself. The good news is bones fix themselves quicker and stronger than ligament and tissue damage. That bone you broke is so small. Just nurture your body and you'll be back. A 5k in March is not out of the question. I broke mine in August and ran a 50k on March 31st. Here is a picture of mine:
Of course, everyone heals differently so be sure to listen to your doctor and your body.
Thanks for the great suggestions. My break is much further down the shaft than yours. It's a transverse break across the bone but underneath it splits a bit and goes down the bone instead of all the way across. Wend to the ortho today and had more films. the bone is in good position and has not moved or been displaced. But no healing as of yet. He said minimum of 8 weeks in the boot 24/7. The area that is broken is known for notoriously poor blood flow which equals long healing time. Going back in 2 weeks for more films and to see if healing has occured. If no healing...discussing internal fixation. No swimming for me now....so, I'm sticking with sit ups, push ups and some weight lifting. Ironically, I've dropped about 8lbs since the accident...but I attribute that to depression. You are right about positive thinking. I got blasted with a bad cold this past week and have been throwing myself a pity party. DONE! Only positive thinking from here on out!
Yeah its much further down
yikes. Anyhow, do some research into those supplements I recommended. Also, use this time to read books and learn new things. I swear, if it wasn't for injury and recovery time, I wouldn't ever have time to read. I recommend Dean Karnazes' book, "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-night Runner". Or Pam Reed's book, "The Extra Mile (One Women's Personal Journey to Ultrarunning Greatness)". These are both truly inspiring and offer an amazing view into the lives of two extraordinary people. Check them outmaybe you already have?
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Welll, it's been almost 2 months and I'm still on non-wt bearing status! Good news is the bone is starting to heal. Will be on crutches until at least the New Year. But that's okay....I'd rather not have to have surgery! The surgeon is allowing me to ride my trainer for 10min day with my aircast but no resistance. I'll take that. It's going to be a long road to recovery but I can do it! I know I can. By this time next year I will be back to myself----even BETTER! Having an injury like this really puts things into perspective. I will NEVER take my body for granted again. Not being able to move, be active, run, walk or just dance is awful. I have vowed to myself to take better care of my body and soul. I wonder if I took better care of my bones if this wouldn't of happened. Anyway, can't focus on what you can't change====but you can focus on the future. I've decided to put my health first and stop giving to others and neglecting my body. This has truly been a time for healing====body and soul! Wish me luck on the final stretch of non weight bearing.....and send those bone healing vibes!
It's been a long 5 months and I finally feel like myself again. Foot pain is gone, air cast boot and crutches have been gone about a month now. Just really looking forward to PT and getting back to running again. Thanks for all the well wished during this trying time.
Annie!!! I'm so happy to hear you're back in action. So please share with us, what was your key to recovery? How did you maintain your fitness over the months?
It was the most difficult thing I have endured in a long time. I have to be honest and share that I lost some strength, endurance and flexibility....despite my attempts not to.
I opted to not have surgical fixation. My orthopod was diligent with xrays and keeping tabs on my healing process. Lucky for me I work in the same hospital as him and could always hobble up to his office for a quick visit and xrays.
I was relegated to non weight baring status for over 12 weeks. That was the most difficult time. I used a lot of positive reinforcements like visualizing my bone healing, etc. Everynight I would meditate on healing and my body calling in good energy. Sounds kooky, but it really helped me. I used bands for strength and never took off that horrible boot!! (except for showers and bed)
I did lots of stretching once the pain was controlled and the bone was more near anatomical alignment. I was not allowed to swim/bike until Christmas Eve. My break was really precarious. I had to bike WITH the aircast boot on...and no jumps in spin class....just a nice easy ride. I can't tell you how many looks I got. He wouldn't let me swim just because was afraid I would fall at the pool with the crutches...and he's right. I am clumsy. But once those crutches were gone I was in the pool. I used a leg buoy at first as to not have to kick and concentrated on aerobic workouts in the water. I treaded with my arms for a while...but as time passed, the bone had a good amount of bony callus..I just went back to a normal stroke. By Jan 12, he let me attempt biking in my biking shoes...it worked. By Jan 14th I was in a shoe full time. I wore my Danskos b/c the were very supportive. I truly am not 100% comfortable in my tennis shoes yet. I still have some swelling and atrophy in that foot. PT starts on friday. I have some alignment issues after using crutches for so long. Hope to work that out during therapy.
Most of the pain came from atrophy as I transitioned into a shoe. Lots of toe pain, dorsal foot pain, CALF PAIN!!!! It was so giggly....i laugh about it now but it looked awful when the boot came off. However, I am totally pain free around the fracture site. I stopped having pain there just after Thanksgiving.
My husband was sooo supportive. He would remind me that my body is healing and that time will pass. Spring would be here and I'd be back on the bike in no time and at least it was dreary winter and not a wonderful summer. Snow on the ground made it easier to not be outside playing. My family would send me links to races next summer and very inspirational books. I did lots of reading and meditating. Deep breathing and relaxation were keys to my recovery. Helped greatly with the pain.
I am finding that I am still struggling with sadness as I progress back to my normal fitness level. Sad that I lost it so, so quickly. But I just keep reminding myself that I am whole again, I will never EVER take my body for granted again and cherish my ability to MOVE.
I am having some mild swelling. I notice it most after a long day at the hospital and when I'm wearing my cycling shoes. does anyone know how long it will be before this edema is gone??
Hi, Last week I was jump roping and landed on my right foot wrong and I'm pretty sure I now have the same injury you do Annie. I now have a boot on it and the doctor was really strict in saying that I can not put any weight what-so-ever on it because that bone is hard to heal and may require surgery if it doens't heel right. So no using it for 6 weeks! I've really been trying to stay fit during my recovery, but I've been so bummed because I had all these plans this summer, including races and swimming and not being able to run is just killing me. I've been doing arm, ab, and floor leg exercises to keep in shape, but I've been trying to figure out a way to do cardio without tiring out my one good leg. No luck so far though, any ideas?
Both Annie and Toby have great ideas on how to stay positive and ways to keep busy so I'll be sure to try those. And Toby, I'll look into those supplements. I also work at a summer day camp as a counselor and absolutely love it! Obviously I won't be able to do a few things such as the rock wall of hiking, but hopefully I still have the job lol. Camp starts in 2 weeks and I'll be on crutches for at least 2 1/2 weeks of camp out of the 6 total weeks, so hopefully no more then that. I'll also have to figure out how to drive with my left foot. I am also going to take a lifeguard training course, but guess now I'll have to wait to take the swimming part. I'm going to be a junior in college, but a few of my friends are graduating high school this year so that'll be fun going to parties and telling everyone what happened!
Use a chair or your couch...put your hands on the couch beside your legs, lift your bottom up off the couch with bent legs pulling your thighs up toward your belly..i.e. the only thing on couch is your hands and you are holding the rest in the air...this is good for abs...If you do the same but straighten your legs in front of you ..in a L shape...this works your abs and quads, hip flexors....If you can support your say half of your weight for a minute or so...you can do wall sits....Put your back on a wall, bend your knees till the angle of your knee bend is about 90 degrees, let your arms hang by your side or put your hands on your head...hold for 60 seconds...very good for quads and hams...even buttocks....Do one foot heel raises...stand on step..hold rail...let good foot heel hang off edge and then go up on toe on that foot and repeat...Unfortunately you can not do this on bad foot but it will work your other legs calf muscle well...If you combine what exercises you can do, create a circuit, i.e. do 15 or so reps of each exercise, and repeat whole circuit say two or three times, with no rest break...then you are working strength as well as endurance by doing all quickly in a row, mutliple times....Injuries suck and it takes patience to deal with them...hope this helps.
Hey Toby,
Thanks for the warm words of encouragement , I fractured my 5th metarsal a week go and it was the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life. This first week has been very challenging for me. But Im very optimistic about my recovery after reading your story. Im a letter carrier and I hope and pray I make a speedy recovery so I cant get back to my everyday activities. Im a little uncomforatble at the moment but Im still thankful because it could have been worst.
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About a month ago, a bunch of kids on my hall were all sitting around on the floor hanging out. Actually this happens every day (which means I never get any work done) but on this particular day we were talking about concerts. A bunch of people had just been to see Chiddy Bang at College Fest. Others had just come back from the Vampire Weekend concert at Bank of America Pavilion. My next-door neighbor Ali began lamenting the fact that she had bought two tickets to see The Tallest Man on Earth play at Somerville Theater but couldn't find anyone else who liked him. As it turns out I am a fan of Tallest Man on Earth. I am a new fan; a fan, who up until recently, only had a handful of songs on her iPod but a big enough fan to be psyched for his concert. I love his distinctive voice, the poetry of his lyrics, and the fact that he's a Swede but he plays Americana folk music.
So, I went to see The Tallest Man on Earth play at Somerville Theater on Friday, October 1st. He was amazing, but that's not really what I want to talk about (you can read a review in the most recent issue of the Observer). I want to tell you about the people I met there: First off, the place was packed with hipsters. Usually this would annoy me, but since leaving Brooklyn, I've found I've been missing a little bit of bespectacled pretentious attitude in my life. After the opening act, the lights came up and I realized I was sitting next to two Tufts freshman, DJ and Austin. I'm not sure how the conversation started but all of a sudden we were excitedly comparing favorite bands, talking about upcoming concerts, and gushing about how much we liked opening act S. Carey, the drummer from Bon Iver, who just came out with a solo album, "All We Grow." Even a Harvard senior in the row in front of us jumped into the conversation at one point, pointing out that S. Carey sounded like a mix between Sigur Ros, Bon Iver, and Band of Horses, which is in fact extremely accurate. At one point DJ turned to me and said "I love all the connections you make with people when you realize you like the same music." Well DJ, you should read my blog! Because that is, of course, what this blog is all about.
So here's what I learned from these two not awkward freshmen: Austin, it turns out was a DJ for all four years of high school. He told me he was going to see Cymbals Eat Guitars and The Thermals at Paradise Rock Club. The former band is from Staten Island, NY, and after listening to their music; I've had to seriously reconsider my intense dislike for that borough. The Thermals are a punk-like, indie band from Portland, OR; they're great, very upbeat, very catchy. Austin also urged me to check out Deerhunter's new album, "Halcyon Digest." I didn't know Deerhunter which meant I was 0 for 3 for the night (how embarrassing!) but now I've listened to the album and I highly recommend it.
When I told them I was writing a music blog for WMFO, DJ casually let slip that he's actually in a band himself. I whipped out my music notebook (I carry it with me everywhere for occasions like these) and started grilling him. The band, from Hopkinton, MA, is called Take Care. They already have one fully recorded EP, "Awakenasleep," that you can download for free on their website. They've got two sax players in their band which I think is pretty legit and unexpected. DJ listed Radiohead, The National, and The Antlers as some of the group's influences. Incidentally I had already heard some amazing things about The Antlers from other kids around campus. It's really time I did my research about them so I can knowledgeably blog about them. Next week perhaps?
1. Pistol Dreams – The Tallest Man on Earth
2. Thousand Ways – The Tallest Man on Earth
3. In the Dirt – S. Carey
4. Is There a Ghost – Band of Horses
5. …And the Hazy Sea – Cymbals Eat Guitars
6. I Don't Believe You – The Thermals
7. Desire Lines – Deer Hunter
8. Mistaken For Strangers – The National
9. Raindance – Take Care
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DOE Launches Energy Star for Solid-State Lighting
DOE released draft Energy Star program requirements for solid-state lighting luminaries on December 20th. Solid-state lighting includes light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as well as organic LEDs, and DOE is establishing Energy Star requirements for solid-state lights as part of a national strategy to accelerate the market introduction of these products.
The draft document set minimum requirements for earning the Energy Star label, including the minimum light output, efficacy, and warmth of the LED lights, as well as how well the light is focused upon its task for certain applications. The draft requirements apply to recessed downlights, under-cabinet kitchen lighting, under-cabinet shelf-mounted task lighting, portable desk task lights, outdoor wall mounted porch lights, outdoor step lights, and outdoor pathway lights. The draft requirements are open to public review, with comments due by January 19th. See DOE's Energy Star Program for Solid-State Lighting Web page.


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Suspect arrested in theft of meteorites
Published: Monday, December 31, 2012 at 7:36 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 31, 2012 at 7:36 a.m.
A Transylvania County man was arrested Saturday in connection with a Christmas Eve break-in at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, and police are seeking a Hendersonville man they say was his accomplice.
Brian Thomas Koontz, 29, of Balsam Grove, was arrested and charged with felony breaking and entering, felony larceny, conspiring to breaking and entering, conspiring to commit larceny and misdemeanor injury to personal property.
As of late Sunday, he was being held in the Transylvania County Detention Center under a $10,000 bond.
Police are still looking for Robin Morris Baldwin Jr., 30, of Hendersonville, who has outstanding warrants for the same four charges as Koontz, according to Detective Wade Abram of the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office.
Abram said Baldwin was thought to be in Henderson County as of Dec. 29, but has "either split town or he's keeping his head low." If Baldwin is on the run, Abram said warrants will be entered in the National Crime Information Center database today so that "if he's stopped anywhere, it will come back that he has active warrants in our county."
Video cameras caught the images of two men who broke into PARI, a nonprofit scientific education facility in Balsam Grove, about 3 a.m. Dec. 24 and spent around 45 minutes inside. The pair stole more than 100 meteorites, about 10 big-screen televisions, video projectors, a microscope and other scientific instruments, according to authorities. PARI officials valued the stolen items around $80,000, though the meteorites — most of them one-of-a-kind — were considered priceless.
After police released video of three "persons of interest" in the case, taken while they visited PARI days before the break-in, the Transylvania sheriff's office received 25 to 30 tips about the case, Abram said.
"There was a tip from a very close source that knew about the situation that led us to both people," Abram said. A woman shown in the surveillance video shot days before the breakin has not been charged, he said, but he would not say why.
The sheriff's office recovered "about 85 percent" of the stolen items, Abram said, but they won't know exactly what is still missing until PARI officials can catalog it all.
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Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Parents are still riled up over the fact their students at Terrace Manor Elementary are getting sick. They say something has to be the cause. Their question now: If it's not mold, what is it?
"We have an issue here, and all we want to find out is what is the problem?" one concerned parent said.
Experts say it's definitely not mold.
The only thing up in the air now is where parent Kimberly Jackson will send her kids to school.
"I will withdraw my children in the morning. I like the school, but I can't jeopardize my children's lives," she said.
As of Wednesday morning, at least five students have been withdrawn from the school.
Administrators say they understand the heightened emotions when parents are protecting their kids, but their message Tuesday night was that the school is safe.
"We think this school is as safe as any school in Richmond County," Deputy Superintendent Tim Spivey said.
Some teachers think otherwise. They say the cleaning solution might be part of the problem.
Kindergarten teacher Marjorie Lanier says she has to open up her back door for fresh air when she sprays it.
"You can smell it an hour after being in here how heavy, strong this is, and when I spray it, it makes me cough," Lanier said.
Executive Director for Elementary Schools Cheryl Jones says, "The cleaning solutions are approved by the Richmond County School System, the EPA. They are cleaning solutions that are used in any high traffic area."
Still, they promise to look at that and anything else that could be causing a problem.
"Do surveys, questionnaires, assessments of the students, the faculty, the community, the building, and you just gather information to see if you can identify gaps," Jones said.
All in an attempt to answer this question.
"Tell us what is it? If it's not mold. You have to know it's something if it's not mold. What is it?" Jackson asked.
Jones says they've been getting the majority of complaints in the past couple of weeks.
She also says in the past couple weeks, we've had a weather change, so we've all probably turned on our heaters. They've turned theirs on at the school.
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It's become quite clear to me just who might be responsible for the recent vandalism during protests in downtown Oakland, specifically for the smashing of windows at numerous businesses:
Big Glass.
That's right. It's the Crystal Mafia, The Window Widow Maker, The Silicate Cabal, deploying operatives disguised as anarchists and random thugs to break windows -- big windows, big expensive floor-to-ceiling, custom-tinted, plate-glass windows -- in a transparent effort to reap the substantial financial benefits of replacement costs. Windex might have something to do with it too.
OK, I'm just kidding. Please, real glass companies, unionized glaziers and Windex, please don't come after me with your putty knives, squeegees, squirt bottles and those big rubber suction-cup claw things.
But you have to admit it's a more logical explanation than the senseless violence against all these innocent daylight-enablers, perpetrated by those with a distorted view of the world who believe that leaving a restaurant or coffee shop with a storefront full of glistening sharp shards somehow makes a difference.
A huge pane
Even before the violence and vandalism that broke out downtown last weekend and beyond following the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, the Oakland Tribune offices at 20th and Broadway and many businesses in the area have been hit several times in the past month -- apparently just for the heck of it. Even last Wednesday night when all was quiet downtown protest-wise, somebody took out a huge window in our conference room, breaking clear through, which is unusual. Typically the glass just cracks like safety class, leaving a crystalline effect as might be viewed from inside a snowflake or a piece of rock candy. It's kind of beautiful.
But there's really nothing pretty about it. Graffiti, burned cars, overturned trash cans and of course smashed windows -- it's all happened so many times in downtown Oakland in recent years I can't even count. Occupy. The Oscar Grant killing. The Johannes Mehserle verdict. More Occupy. The Raiders winning or losing. Usually losing. More Occupy. Dew falling on the lawn in front of City Hall.
There was one time a few years ago when a transformer blew and the power went out downtown for about 15 minutes in the middle of a work day, and people started looting. Fifteen minutes! Middle of the day! And people were smashing things and running into stores and grabbing whatever they could.
It's times like this when I love to quote "The Simpsons" Mayor Quimby: "Can't we go a day in this town without a riot?"
Break the cliché
More protests about the Zimmerman verdict are planned for the weekend, and who knows what will happen. Buildings, hide your windows. Cars, drive over to Walnut Creek.
Protests are valid and important. Riotous violence is not. It's a fusion of foolishness and misguided ideals and sometimes just plain crimes of opportunity -- a chance to break stuff under cover of crowd and night sky. Each incident is a stab in the back to our community. A sense of turmoil that refracts all around, from business owners to residents, dulling the image of our really cool town.
So, to the people who do this -- who I'm sure read this column religiously -- this is a fragile game you're playing. Even if you don't get caught, don't you realize you've become a joke? People make fun of you because you're so cliché. You wear bandannas -- where do you get them, Walmart? Costco? Gucci? Way to be anti-establishment -- then you "splinter off" from the main demonstrations to make your mayhem. Whatever your point is, if you in fact have one, it is completely lost in the morning water-cooler wash of ridicule.
Take a look in the mirror. Don't break it, but look at it. Examine your motives, look yourself in the eye and say, "Today, I am not going to compensate for my own personal shattered dreams by smashing things. Today, if I have a legitimate beef, I am not going to be boring. Instead, I will put my big-boy pants on and try something new and creative. Maybe something like, oh, talking to people, or starting an online movement, or even marching in a protest -- but tempered with a sense of humanity and respect for my neighbors."
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Has anyone experienced chronic calf cramping during long (10+ mile) runs and how did you defeat them? If you did.
They tend to strike after a hill climb during cool weather but neither of those are always necessary for them to happen. They do seem to happen more, the faster I am getting, but they've always been a problem (all the way back to soccer in 8th grade).
I've tried:
- increasing my potassium intake with bananas and sweet potatoes and that doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
- Stinger gels and they didn't work either
- Gu makes me very sick so that is out as an option
- I have a couple calf compressors that seem to help a little but they aren't entirely reliable either
- Nor are running tights or keeping my legs warm in general
I will continue to keep trying "stuff" but at this point was hoping a more directed/informed giudance might help me fix this problem quicker
Apparently I fail at forum searching. Found this in that "More Like This" section that appeared after I posted:
...interesting suggestion that drinking too much water can flush out your electrolytes...I drink TONS of water. People at work have even suggested I may drink unhealthy amounts of water (though they couldn't say why it was unhealthy). Maybe time to add Gatorade to my long runs. This latest race I just ran and cramped at was pretty stingy on the Gatorade I thought (only three Gatorade stops for a half marathon?) I'll report back in a couple weeks as to whether it worked or not, unless someone else has a better idea. Probably need a non-Gu/non-Stinger alternative for Gatorade-stingy races if that turns out to be the problem.
Excess water consumption can lead to a condition called hypnoatremia (you can google it or look on wikipedia or many exercise sites), with symptoms similar to dehydration and possible serious consequences (including death in extreme cases). So that is something you should check carefully, to see if you are in fact drinking more than is healthy. If your urine is consistently clear and/or you need to urinate frequently, say more than every three hours, you may indeed be drinking too much water.
However, recent research points more to under-trained muscles as the cause of cramping, rather than dehydration or electrolyte imbalance. In that case, I would suggest stretching and strengthening your lower legs - calves and shins. Some simple exercises the require no equipment are toe raises for the calves (on the edge of a step) and top-taps for the shins (can be done standing or seated).
I agree with the "undertrained" explanation, but there are so many factors that make healthy muscle contraction possible, I would steer clear of focusing on just one thing. It's a teamwork effort on the part of nutrition, hydration, training, and recovery. Make sure you don't neglect any of these in pursuit of your goals. However (there is always a however), some genetics come into play, too. Believe it or not, this is another thing you can change. Here is a video that starts funny, but gets pretty serious about explaining this fact...
I cramped badly at mile 15 in my first marathon, after less than a year of training for it. My nutrition and hydration were really good, training insufficient (more strength training in those days, but less running), and recovery was suspect. I still cramped, sometimes just as early, in subsequent marathons, but became less likely to cramp as the years went by. It wasn't that I picked up my mileage so much as staying consistent and gaining experience that made cramp-free marathons possible. When you are getting older, but improving, you are doing something right. You just have to give your legs a chance to keep up with your demands. Rome wasn't built in a day.
When athletes experience unusual bouts of cramps, attention turns to the other factors. Sometimes overtraining is the problem, too. In fact, this happens in microcosm during your run. A surprising number of people do not know, and are often frightened to find out, that exercise actually damages muscles. This effect is almost guaranteed every time you run. A certain number of muscle cells are going to rupture, break down, and become absorbed over a few days. And yeh, this hurts, but the new muscle cells that grow to replace the old are more likely to be stronger, and less likely to be damaged the next time around. In the meantime, a cramp is the way your body stops you from training so this process can take place. While training is important, it really only breaks you down. It is the recovery period during your rest that actually make things stronger.
If you are cramping, it is like the whistle to end the play. There could be a number of things wrong, at least for the moment. A few years ago I started running the only marathon I did not finish. I was well-trained, well-nourished, and ready to go. The temperature was way lower than any I had trained in, but I was prepared with tights, layered shirts, and something to wrap around my head. I warmed up well before the gun went off, but cramped badly in the first mile. I never made it to mile two before my legs locked up completely, and I could not even walk, let alone run. I decided it was not my day, and quit. A couple hours later, I would relax and try to jog out the problem. I wound up running several miles without a problem then or later. So, was I undertrained? Overtrained? Too cold? Who knows? It went away and did not come back.
Since then, when I have felt cramps coming on during long runs, I have attempted to manage them. I don't stretch them as I see others doing, because a stretch really doesn't do anything to increase circulation, and I know that circulation is the key to solving almost any issue with cramps, in the short-term and in the long-term. I've tried slowing, which often works temporarily, massaging the cramp, which also works for a while, paying attention to my stride to relax and shorten it, and dealing with the pain for a while until it goes away. That last one is really tough, but it has actually worked in some cases.
I am normally not in favor of running through pain, but pain from cramps is different from pain due to a muscle tear or inflamed joint, etc. It is somewhat artificial, like a complaint of dubious merit, a response out of proportion to its cause. Isn't it true that they often occur in people who are not exercising? If so, how does doing nothing when you are already doing nothing help? In my case, I have many times felt better after exercising the cramped muscle, than by babying it too much. It all depends on the real source of the cramp.
This means, you have to do your homework on all contributing factors, so you can rule out bad leads that waste your time. Then you will know if it is safe to continue exercising, if this too shall pass, and you will gradually loosen up. I believe a big factor in cramps is actually mental, in that too much anxiety causes the cramp. If you have ever had too much caffeine, and were edgy and started to twitch, it was a demonstration of this principle. Yes, caffeine is somewhat diuretic, so there is a little dehydration going on, but that fast in all tissues? I don't think so. In fact, I don't trust any research on cramps to nail down the phenomenon at all, because there is way more that we don't know than what we do. That can be said of almost any research, which frequently gets overturned by subsequent studies.
I'm willing to bet that thinking too hard about all the potential causes of cramps is likely to cause more of them than knowing nothing and chilling through the challenge. If you are basically healthy, not deficient in anything, not dried out or water-logged, your muscles should work pretty well until you eventually shred them. Worrying about it too much during your run will not help. Try banishing that 10-mile barrier by refusing to believe it exists, because I don't think it does. Count every two miles as one, and see if you don't make 20. I'm serious.
So, maybe that "neuromuscular change" the one British study noted was really more "neuro" than muscular. If you have really been careful with all the other stuff, I think it's a thought worth following up on. I've been through some hellaciously long runs without cramps, and they seem to have been free of anxiety with nothing to prove. My best marathons have been with less clock-watching and more enjoyment. I'll bet if you can forget the barrier, and run within your comfort zone, even step outside it a little and welcome the fatigue, that barrier just might disappear.
Excellent responses so far, and I'd like to add my 2 cents. Gatorade isn't a very good sport recovery drink because it's incomplete as is Powerade and some others. Magnesium is essential to helping prevent muscle cramps along with some other important internal functions. I use a drink mix call R4 from GNC which has magnesium and I won't do any distance training without it. Plain water is of course helpful and I'm happy to get some from the aid stations in a race to make my fuel belt stores last longer but its obviously lacking a few ingredients that you'll need. Most power bars don't have magnesium either so do some lable reading. I personally use LaraBars as my primary and whatever else turns up in the race packet or what I get by volunteering at race aid stations. Because you're unique, just like everybody else, your mileage may vary on different food or drinks available.
Good luck with the racing and keep us posted on your results.
Man...awesome responses so far! Thank you all so much!
A little more background about myself. I am 39, started running at 37 and completed my first (and only...so far) marathon at 38 in just under 5 hours. I've done four half marathons so far and recently posted a PR of 1:54 while struggling with cramps from mile 9 onward. I estimate probably 1:46-47-ish if I hadn't been waylaid.
Oddly enough the path from couch to marathon was cramp free even though I experienced them off and on my whole life. In January this year I switched from gigantic heel shoes to more minimalist - I train in both Brooks Pure Cadences and Newton Gravities (Newtons = hella fast but hurt my heels so I mainly use them just for races). I also took on "Natural Running" and overnight knocked over 1 minute per mile off my pace at any distance.
Reading the responses and thinking more, this switch seems to have brought on more cramps, much more frequently. That definitely jives with being "undertrained" and maybe they'll go away on their own the longer I stick with the faster running style that puts tons more stress on the calves. I doubt many can take 15 minutes off their Half PR even while struggling with cramps for 4 miles . I guess that is alot more speed in a very short span of time.
I agree cramps are somewhat "artificial" and did attempt to run through them on several occasions, even getting them to relent that way twice, but they became very insistent. Interesting, though, that I probably wasn't helping much by stretching them. And yes, I was definitely "clock watching" because I knew I was going to blow away my old PR of 2:09.
While I would prefer to take a more scientific approach and change only a single variable at a time, I only have 5 weeks until my next Half which means only 2-3 long runs to try stuff. So I will approach this from both ends - conditioning and electrolytes. I plan to add calf raises to my gym routine (3 sets of 20-30, once or twice a week, ensuring full range of motion) and adding Tablytes as a supplement. That R4 stuff looks like it packs a whallop so should Tablytes prove insufficient I may move up to that. As I discovered with Gu, though, I have a fairly sensitive stomach and might not be able to handle R4 (although I could always just dilute it).
Ok so...update. I managed to get 3 calf raise workouts in in two weeks which really agitated my PF that I didn't mention I had . Going to continue them for now but if the PF doesn't relent I may switch to just stretching more deeply. I also ordered a set of heel cups for the PF but that's a different topic.
Took on a 14 mile run. My Tablytes of course showed up at my doorstep the minute I returned from the run so I haven't tried those yet. The last run I did had some anti-cramping drink in the goody bag (I forgot the name of it) so I tried 4 oz of that and loaded my camelbak with half strength gatorade instead of just water. I had no full-on cramps but got one slight twinge at around 13.5 miles. That's usually how it starts so if the usual pattern would have held I anticipate cramping at around a mile or so later. Not ideal but obviously an improvement. Hopefully it continues to trend away as I am more seriously considering doing another Full in October.
Following up on what NzAndy mentioned, magnesium imbalance is an important factor when treating muscle cramps. I have read figures on magnesium deficiency in the US population hovering between 60-78%, but this number does not take into account the increased need for magnesium among the exercising population, people under severe stress, those with insufficient sleep, and coffee drinkers. Sounds like a lot of Americans, doesn't it?
Magnesium helps to counter what happens in muscle when too much calcium accumulates in muscle tissue. Often times, it is not that we are completely lacking in minerals, but that they are not in balance. The same chemical interactions apply in human tissue as in technology such as batteries. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, iron, calcium, all play a role in how and when muscle tissue contracts. It is easy for these chemical processes to be thrown out of balance, even when the minerals are well represented in the diet. Not only will certain types of stress deplete important minerals, but the fact that we eat them in balance does not mean we absorb them equally. Magnesium is an example of a mineral that is notoriously difficult to absorb, and unlike iron, is easily and frequently eliminated via excretion. In fact, this is why it is often used as a laxative.
So, the use of supplements with a balance of nutrients does not ensure that you will either absorb or retain them. Your net retention of these vital electrolytes is more important than dietary balance, especially under the stress of exercise. You may need to skew your nutritional intake to achieve that net balance.
Let's look at a mineral that is well represented in the US diet: Calcium. Though Calcium is a vital electrolyte that has been highlighted by a trendy focus on bone health, it is only one of many minerals involved in bone-building. Yet, it is added as a supplement to almost everything, from bread to orange juice, despite the fact that it is not hard to absorb from a balanced diet. Calcium can be difficult for the body to manage in excess. It is an important component of arterial plaque, bone spurs, stones, brittle bones, and muscle tightness. Keeping it in balance can be complicated by medical conditions and use of certain medications.
Because calcium is abundant in the human body, and highly alkaline, it is an important buffer in the highly acidic diet we are accustomed to here, rich in grains, sugars, and flesh foods. In addition to concerns about bone health in the aging population, that's probably another reason why it is added to so many foods. There's a good chance we need more of it, but I believe that ironically, dietary balance has been a casualty in this battle to correct the inherent imbalance in our diet, activities, medications, and habits.
In short, I would not be surprised if you find yourself within that conservative 60% of Americans deficient in another important mineral, magnesium, the absorption of which can be blocked by an excess of calcium. When it comes to diet vs. supplementation, clearly diet is a better way to acquire and absorb minerals, because of the tendency of minerals in elemental form to compete with each other for absorption.
Here is an interesting discussion of magnesium imbalances by a UK doctor.
LOL did you say coffee? I drink about a pot a day . Then switch to tea in the afternoon. Prior to an early morning run on weekends I still get in 2-3 cups. Too bad its so hard to test. This made me chuckle but I just may try it in conjuction with less coffee:?
"Try increasing the amount of magnesium you take by mouth until it causes diarrhoea, then reduce the dose slightly so it does not."
Ran a hillier Half and cramped even earlier, with the first one hitting at 7.5 miles. The good news is that it pissed me off so much I was able to take another 4 minutes off my PR even with frequent stopping. Still, I estimate it cost me 5-8 minutes. Tried to run through the cramping and this actually worked a couple times but then one hit so hard that it actually crept up to my hamstring when I refused to stop and work it out.
With massively increased Magnesium levels (unless I can't absorb it) I think I can rule that out.
Current theory on the table is salt. Turns out my diet is almost devoid of it and I've avoided it ever since my dad's heart had trouble dealing with it. So I've started adding just small amounts of salt to stuff. I've completed one 14 mile run since I implemented the salt addition and there was not even a twinge of a cramp. So possibly I am onto something but the run wasn't that hilly and hills are what seem to prompt the cramps so the jury is still out.
Secondary theory is that I overtrain. I'm pretty sure I don't overtrain mileage-wise (3 runs/week usually) but speedwise I am sure I do. Every run turns into a race in my head and I end up pushing hard. I've since backed off and included recovery runs and easy runs.
I've also come across suggestions that people with "sprinter muscles" burn glycogen at a much higher rate. Being a 100-200-400 meter runner in high school I believe I fall into the fast twitch "sprinter muscle" category. So its possible I need to do a better job of carb loading and then fueling during a run. I'd read carb loading wasn't really for Half marathons but possibly I just burn glycogen faster than most distance runners due to my physiology.
I too have had to deal with cramping - so I am very empathetic. I'm 56, started running at 52, I've run one marathon and several HM's. I too have wanted a scientific explanation to why cramping happens and what I've learned is that nobody really knows... There is a tremendous amount of speculation and lots of good thought, but no silver bullet. As one of your responders suggested, the answer is likely in a fine balance of nutrition and endurance training. And then of couse, is the need to be very cognizant of the weather (humidity) conditions.
Everyone is different re cramping, but I've discovered that if I start to taste salt on my lips, I need to get slow down and get a serious amount of electrolytes (in the form of gatorade and endurolytes) into my system - if I don't I will start to cramp. (I've cramped so bad that I was unable to move off the road and had to DNF a 30K race - EMS came, lights and sirens - it was embarassing and humiliating).
So the bottom line is that you are going to have to figure out what combination and balance of nutrition and endurance training works for you to prevent cramping... For me, I'm finding that upping my endurance is helping - as long as I am also paying close attention to my nutrition.
Good luck!
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As an avid cyclist, Daniel Lewis is used to being on the move. When he first started the Flatbread Pizza Co., it was mobile as well, essentially a wood-burning pizza oven on wheels. Now, Lewis is just about to finish taking the next step forward and trading in the wheels (temporarily) for a physical restaurant location in Breckenridge.
Lewis and his family have been living in Breckenridge for the past three years. In that time, he has found success with Flatbread Pizza Co., catering his pizzas from place to place, anywhere from private to local events. To do this, Lewis hired a mason from Boulder to build his oven, bought a shell for it from Italy and put the entire thing on top of a trailer, which he pulled around with his car.
He wasn't content to stop there, however. After two years of planning, Lewis found a space he liked in Breckenridge and set about to making it into the restaurant he'd envisioned.
"We always wrote the business plan to include this," Lewis said.
Though he's put the catering aspect on hold during the shaping of the restaurant, Lewis said he plans to start it back up again once everything else is settled.
Finding just the right spot was a challenge, Lewis said, and he looked at places throughout the county. Finally, he found it - at the La Cima Mall at the southern end of Breckenridge's South Main Street. It has about 870 square feet of space and will sit up to 38 people. As it's at the end, there's patio space which will have tables and chairs when the weather warms up. The patio gives a sweeping view of the end of Main Street, as well as the towering Peak 8.
Inside, a bar with stools lined up against the window offers the same perspective in a warmer environment. The internal set up is intentionally open. Customers will have a clear view of the kitchen, particularly the Forno Bravo wood-fired oven, built by master mason Brian Scott of Boulder. The interior decor has a rustic look, including aspects of Lewis' passion for bicycles.
The walls' siding and bars are all made from pine beetle-kill trees harvested locally and the tabletops are made from reclaimed wood from a Portland, Ore., company. Lewis then called upon the skills of local craftsman Louis Bibeau of Inferno Metal Works. Bike gears make appearances throughout the restaurant - on the walls, on the tabletops, even in the pendant lights.
"I like to use the resources we have," Lewis said. "I like everything to have a story."
While the menu includes appetizers, salads and desserts, the main focus is, of course, the pizza. The dough is handmade and hand rolled, while the ingredients are fresh and locally grown whenever possible.
The wood that Lewis puts into his oven is fruit wood, both apple and peach, which add to the aroma and the flavor of the pizza within.
"There will be scent," he said. "It does give it a little more aroma and flavor."
Unlike his catering company, which was seasonal and only operated during the summer, Lewis said that the Flatbread Pizza Co. restaurant will be open year-round.
"We want to be supportive of locals," he said.
Everyone is welcome at the restaurant, from young athletic cycling enthusiasts to families with children.
The Flatbread Pizza Co. will celebrate its soft opening Friday, with an official grand opening planned for Feb. 28.