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The above picture is what has been on my mind lately.  I’m calling it my saving grace because after last week’s runs, my legs were in agony.

This high-density foam roller is either your best friend or your worst enemy depending upon your use of it.  For me, it has definitely saved my butt and it was pretty cheap too.  After our long runs my normal MO is to ice my calves and legs to save them from the agony of defeat.  I’m often walking around the rest of the weekend with a slight hitch due to some minor cramp in my muscles.  Ice definitely helps, but my trainer advised using a foam roller.

Lemme tell you: it hurts.  Just realize that now.  You’re using the roller as a fulcrum point and rolling your body (especially your IT band) downward to literally stretch your muscle fibers and force out any kinks.  It burns, it hurts, its stretching, and you’re doing it to yourself.  However, within 30 seconds of stopping (and do both sides mind you) I feel like a million bucks.  Its magical.  Often I find that I have to do it twice a day sometimes, but its doing the trick.

Thanks Amazon Prime.

Wow, where have I been these past few months?  Most of my time has been attributed to work, and trying to find more projects and gigs to keep me afloat.  It definitely hasn’t been easy out there.  On another front a lawsuit I was involved with has reached an amicable conclusion which has helped things.

• I’m running a marathon!  I’m training for the Seattle Full Marathon in November, and raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Washington.  I’m blogging about my progress over at GeekRunsMarathon.com, and I’d encourage all of you to check it out and donate if you can.  The money isn’t going to me; its going to fund awesome research to help find a cure for this horrible disease.  Frankly given the amount of training I’m now doing, I’m not sure how I can find time for anything but I’m trying to do a good job and not injure myself during this process.
• I’ve been on a roll with my Obj-C stuff lately.  I’m back to following the courses and trying to solve the problem sets.  I have some plans for education in mind, but everything is on hold at the moment until I can clear some financial hurdles.  Having two businesses means always thinking about money sadly….
• And speaking of Obj-C can I mention how difficult it is to learn a language and an API while both are changing?  I just got use to using retain counts and autorelease pools and all sorts of memory management, only to have the rug pulled out (not really) with this new tech called “Automatic Reference Counting“.  I guess nothing ever remains static for very long…
• Reading a lot: I’ve finally started the Game of Thrones series by George R.R. Martin after getting hooked on the HBO show.  I know I’m late to the game, but I can’t seem to find enough time to do all this reading and writing….