The amazing music of “Fix You” by Cold Play was part of it but watching someone overcome is powerful. Watching someone with more than his share to overcome is incredibly powerful and inspirational.

Change is hard but staying the same is harder.

I am deformed!

Actually, its just my metatarsals although I could lump my scalp in there and no one would argue.

It turns out a primary cause of patella femoral syndrome is actually a short big toe called Morton’s Foot. I have every symptom of this condition that essentially creates a 2 legged stool out of your foot.

I remember watching my Grandpa stumble around acting as if he was walking on ice skates when I was a kid and come to find out, he probably was! I think both sides of my family have this condition and it will be interesting to see how treating it will affect my back pain, knee pain, shoe wear, etc.

The treatment could not be any easier, simply place a thin pad under the head of the first metatarsal or the “ball of the foot” making sure not to cover the second metatarsal. To accomplish this, cut a circle the size of a quarter for a gal or a fifty cent piece for a dude out of some insole padding. Feather the edges and stick them on the insole of each shoe or on an oder eater insole if they are attached.

You will end up with something that looks like this:

Photo curtesy of The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook.

There are for real orthodics one can order but for a couple bucks worth of padding, I think this is a cure that is worth the cost.

Happy running!

This is just as cool, a little school house north of town just before BIR.

Keep an eye out for the new sign and stop in and say hi for me.

On second thought, stop in and put him in a headlock for me, that would be more in keeping with how he would expect a visit from his older brother to go. :)

And if you are interested in body work or yoga instruction, hit up his webpage or stop by his new place and get back to school.

Everybody knows sugar is not the best choice for us but there is something much worse. Fructose. Fructose presents itself just as alcohol to the liver.

That can of Coke we give to our kids is like handing them a glass of Budweiser.

If that wasn’t bad enough that glass of fruit juice without any fiber as God designed is more like drinking a glass of fat.