As you know from earlier posts, I’m working to get my body into a better physical place.  I finally decided that it will definitely help to have a coach to give me some encouragement and direction. Next thing I know, I’m doing some intro massage at the local running store, Fleet Feet in Carrboro, NC, and […]

On Friday I received an email from a friend, The message was from a website that he reads and it had a lovely reminder of the importance of touch in our lives.  I wanted to share it with you: Healing Our BodiesTouch It’s important to not forget about the power of the human touch in our lives.

This Sunday I went to the cyclocross race at Lion’s Park in Raleigh, it was fun and also very interesting.  I was doing free introduction massages to show the cyclists my style of work and let them know that I’m working here in the Triangle area of NC. I took a walk from where I had my

While working with cyclists at the cyclocross race in Raleigh on Sunday, just about every cyclist complained of neck pain.  It’s a very common cycling injury because of the position of your head and neck while cycling. If you stand up straight, put your fingertips on the back of your neck, next to your spine,

Are you a cyclist?  If so, the odds are extremely high that you have low back pain because of the aerodynamic position you assume for hours at a time. Cycling in the aerodynamic position brings the two ends of your iliopsoas muscle (actually it’s two muscles, the psoas and the iliacus) very close together. In

Last week I worked with a lady who is an avid runner…until her hip started to hurt so much that she couldn’t run at all, in fact she could barely walk! After talking to her for awhile she realized that she always runs the same route every morning. She runs facing the traffic so her

Well, as I mentioned, Stacey Richardson convinced me to begin my training for a sprint triathlon in May. I haven’t run in at least 5 years after having an injury that took a year to heal.  Some parts of me are really excited….and other parts of me are saying “…have you gone nuts completely!!” I know that

Friday is a big day….I’m going to the YMCA and see if I can swim!  Now, if I jump off a boat in the middle of a lake, I can stay up, but I need to be able to go back and forth for 250m so I need to learn how to do a real

It’s a funny thing about this swimming challenge, I was so unsure of myself that I did all kinds of things before I finally left for the gym. I cleaned the kitchen; answered the questions on my forum; did the laundry (it absolutely HAD to be done immediately <LOL>), in fact, I procrastinated as much as

Stacey told me that she’s looking for a better triathlon for me to run in the Spring, she feels that Ramblin’ Rose in Raleigh, NC, has 28 turns and is hilly, so it’s too challenging for right now.  No problem, I’m game for whatever she says. So I decided to do a baseline on how