{"id":4927,"date":"2017-08-29T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2017-08-29T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:27:05","slug":"pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"Pop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Iowa, on special occasions we drank, &#8220;Pop.&#8221; \u00a0These days I call it &#8220;Soda.&#8221; \u00a0Even as a little kid, I thought the name &#8220;Pop&#8221; sounded funny but we&#8217;re not going to be discussing regional colloquialisms today.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that we&#8217;re not going to be discussing is children&#8217;s rhymes or songs!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HzXI_ApY4dY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re doing to discuss it a huge scare I had last Thursday and my Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>First things first, we need to backtrack to a year ago when I was sick and was put on antibiotics. \u00a0My Doctor (who is no longer my Doctor because of this) put me on a\u00a0fluoroquinolone antibiotic and after taking only 2 pills, I started having problems with my Achilles Tendon.<\/p>\n<p>I was a grumpy panda!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?attachment_id=4928\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4928\" alt=\"mad-panda-300x284\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mad-panda-300x284.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about this, you can read the blog I wrote about that experience last summer: \u00a0http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4393<\/p>\n<p>Ever since then, I&#8217;ve had niggles. \u00a0I&#8217;ve run cautiously! \u00a0MFH can tape my Achilles with RockTape in his sleep. \u00a0He&#8217;s a pro with RockTape anymore!<\/p>\n<p>So, last Thursday I was running a pretty easy 5 miler. \u00a0The first mile had been pulling the tire and the other 4 were just &#8220;regular&#8221; running. \u00a0I had pulled the tire on my street because it&#8217;s pretty flat then headed on over to Watson Road to pick up the last four miles.<\/p>\n<p>Heading back and leaving Watson, I turned towards home when I felt\/heard a loud, &#8220;Pop!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh Nooooo!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pops&#8221; are rarely a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the week before I&#8217;d had a deep tissue massage and my calves had been very tight. \u00a0My massage guy had really worked the calves and they&#8217;d been a little tender ever since. \u00a0That &#8220;Pop!&#8221; was in my ankle right next to my Achilles.<\/p>\n<p>I thought to myself, &#8220;Well kiddo, I think you tore your Achilles. \u00a0RATS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My second thought was, &#8220;My coach is going to kill me!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My third thought was, &#8220;Recovery time&#8230;.let&#8217;s see, I can hobble through the Chicago Marathon and maybe still be ready for that December 100 miler!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking all this stuff while doing a mental check of how my ankle and leg felt. \u00a0Did I hurt? \u00a0Not really! \u00a0Hmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I got home and looked~no swelling or bruising. \u00a0How odd!!!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was pretty careful moving around the house the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I finally asked a friend who knows about this stuff and he said, &#8220;Can you stand on your tip toes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes! \u00a0I could!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does it hurt at all?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No! No discomfort at all! \u00a0YAY?<\/p>\n<p>He told me if it was my Achilles, I wouldn&#8217;t be able to do the tip toe thing and what happened wasn&#8217;t my Achilles. \u00a0I was doing the happy dance!!!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFNLbAs3KAU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve discovered that my grouchy foot, the one that had popped, is feeling a lot better! It&#8217;s hardly cranky at all! That foot used to wake me up because I would have been sleeping with it a certain way and it didn&#8217;t like that. \u00a0As a matter of fact, that foot used to wake me up a lot!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the &#8220;Pop!&#8221; was a good thing?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not sure. \u00a0MFH (My Favorite Husband) is still taping my legs before I run&#8230;.just in case but I&#8217;m still heading out each day grabbing the miles.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll just keep our fingers crossed, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Running, all!!!<\/p>\n<p>#IRun4Aiden<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?attachment_id=4923\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4923\" alt=\"20882532_10213802500047497_8541671831081157406_n\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20882532_10213802500047497_8541671831081157406_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20882532_10213802500047497_8541671831081157406_n.jpg 720w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20882532_10213802500047497_8541671831081157406_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20882532_10213802500047497_8541671831081157406_n-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Iowa, on special occasions we drank, &#8220;Pop.&#8221; \u00a0These days I call it &#8220;Soda.&#8221; \u00a0Even as a little kid, I thought the name &#8220;Pop&#8221; sounded funny but we&#8217;re not going to be discussing regional colloquialisms today. 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