Hands up and touch the sky!

[hawkwing_lb]

Since my post of this morning, I have writ upon my thesis and made a chewy sponge cake and gone for a run in the evening sunlight north along the beach with a low milky tide gradually turning inwards.

Unfortunately, it transpires my right ankle is a conscientious objector to running and swimming in the same 24-hour period. Still, I did intervals, and came home in time for my mother to torture me show me a couple of yoga poses.

And now I have legs covered in Deep Heat ointment, because of the tightness of the muscles. Clearly I need to work on the flexibility with more vigour.

Comments

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Deep Heat is a wondrous thing!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it is.

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

One of the fancy foam rollers with the nubbly bits? Saved my life re: flexibility, mobility.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

What is this foam roller thing?

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

These: http://www.rumbleroller.com/ !

I have the full-length one, and both I and my training partner love the hell out of it. It's exquisitely painful on tight muscle, but it massages and loosens things up just right.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Huh. I had no idea about these things. I will have to look into them.

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

Best investment in my fitness-progress I've made, probably. Extra-great for loosening up a tight IT band or hamstrings. (If you're going to get one, make sure it's one with the nubbly bits--the flat ones, you may as well put a can of beans or something in a sock; they don't dig in to the knotted tissue.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

That's great. Thanks - that sounds like good advice!