Mortaine’s Blog

Yes. That is what I thought of last night for my NaNoNovel. Space-faring dinosaurs.

No, I have no idea where I might go with this idea. But it sounds fun.

So, as you may or may not know, depending on if I’ve bitched to you about it in the last 2 weeks, my right foot hurts. It hurts to walk on it, and of course run, but it’s not bruised, swollen, pokey, or otherwise exhibiting any other signs of known trauma. It’s also unresponsive to ice, heat, elevation, compression, or even rest. All of these things work for about 20 minutes, then stop.

I went to yoga last night, in hopes that it would help my foot. Now, understand that about half of our poses in bikram yoga are done standing up, usually on one foot at a time. Given that my right foot is really hard to stand on right now, I was very nervous.

Well, yoga works. That’s all I can say, really. It works. Our second pose in bikram yoga is “awkward pose” which requires balancing on one foot and compressing all the joints everywhere in your body. This follows a spine warmup where you stretch side to side, pushing your hips out past your ankles, like an arch (or a half-moon, hence its name, “half moon pose.”) Half moon pose puts pressure on the right foot as well, at a different angle than I’m used to (by throwing the weight all the way over and past the foot).

So, anyway, extend, compress, release– that’s basically the way things are in yoga poses. And it works. The compression/release on the circulation in my foot was sufficient to promote a cessession of pain. Granted, it hurt again this morning, but not as much as yesterday morning. Hopefully, I can continue to do this until Sunday, and will have worked up a couple of stretches/mini-poses to do during the marathon when my foot starts aching again.

It would be nice to get out of this thing without an actual fracture.

Also, attention Portland and Pacific Northwest LJ Friends!!!
My flight arrives on Friday at 9:50 A.M., and I leave on Tuesday at 6:30 PM. I would love to plan a little meeting with some LJ friends sometime during the weekend. I think Saturday is close to booked with high school buddies and Team in Training friends, and Sunday is the marathon. PLEASE COME TO THE MARATHON and scream, yell, cheer, take pictures, etc. I would love to get pics from the route as well as from the start/finish line, and if you happen to bring a bottle of lemon-lime powerade and throw it at me, you’ll have my thanks forever (Portland switched drinks last week, thereby guaranteeing that no one has trained on their sports drink of choice).

Those of you in Spr0t who were thinking of moseying up there for a spr0t get-together, let me know time & place, and I’ll try to be there!