• Knee issue
• Colder weather.
o While I LOVE swimming in it, I’m not particularly fond of cycling in it.
Looking at my rides for December 2010, I only had 2 more than this year,
but they totaled 132 more miles.
• Schedule
o Holiday stuff.
o Coaching flag football twice per week.
• Holidays
o Adult beverages
o Cookies
o Pies
o Cakes
• Birthdays
o See above
• Excuses
This week saw exactly TWO workouts (both of them in the pool) that netted a whopping 4000 yards of easy/moderate swimming.
My mythical, magical, all in one, cream arrived in the mail on Tuesday. Out of curiosity, I did a Google search for the mentioned ingredients and found the following:
• 10% Keta = Ketamine (To dull nerve pain)
• 6% Gaba = Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (Pain reliever)
• 5% Diclo = Diclofenac (Anti-inflammatory)
• 0.2% Clon = Clonidine (Pain reducer)
Since I haven’t been running or cycling, I haven’t really experienced any further knee pain. On occasion, however, there is a dull reminder that something is not quite right, but no real issues to speak of. That being said, I wanted to see what this stuff was all about. Would it feel like BENGAY, Icy Hot, or other sports Creams? Would it feel like that numbing sensation when the dentist puts a cotton swab of something ending in “caine” on your gums before injecting something? Well, the answer is none of those. I took a small dab, massaged it into the affected area, and waited. Nothing. Not a hint of anything going on. It was at this point that I figured that I’d wait on using the stuff until after my MRI and after I start running and/or cycling again. Right now, I’m in a holding pattern until January.
In the meantime, I’ve gone from feeling like this:
Or this:
To this:
And this:
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