Aches and Pains

Two days without working out, and I feel more broken down than before.  I thought rest and recovery days were supposed to be recuperative.

It would seem favoring the right calf has had a cascading effect.  Yesterday, I noticed my right knee (the back) starting to hurt at times, as if I'd hyperextended the knee.  Today, after walking around at the final day of Comic-Con, my right ankle started to bother me, and at the end of the day, I had to add my left front hip to the mix.

That's right: right calf, left knee, right ankle, left hip.  WTF?  The best I can figure is that by compensating for the right calf, I've changed my posture and my walking gait, resulting in strains and stresses on other joints and bones that are now beginning to manifested as aches and pains.  It's ridiculous.  It doesn't help to have spent almost all day on my feet at the convention center and on the trolley, to and from Old Town.

Whatever; I can't wait to work out tomorrow.  Not going to run.  The calf definitely isn't ready.  I could tell while walking.  I'm fine walking and even levering up on the calf while walking stairs.  But running will only reinjure it.  I can tell.

Really sucks that this has sprung up so close to the half marathon.

Comic-Con was fun though.  Long day.  It's tougher to negotiate the scene with a group of 4 than it was when it was just Quin and me.  We missed the "Supernatural" panel, which bummed Joan out greatly.  We did get in for "American Dad," though we weren't interested in that (and man is that show crude). What Joan and Bailey wanted to see and hear was the cast and creators of "Glee."  And that we did.  We got closed out of the "Phineas and Ferb" screening though.  Sorry Bailey.

I did coax Bailey into posing for another photo at the FearNet booth, this time with my own spooky old man's mask.  She wore the pig's mask...freaky.  What's that from?  The Shining?

I wore the transparent mask around the main floor for awhile.  it was funny getting glimpses of people casting glances my way trying to figure out if I was wearing a mask or not.

There are so many real costumes around, me in a simple Halloween mask barely garners a batting of an eyelash.  Still, it was fun.  Bailey wore a cool Fiona (from Shrek) knit hat which she got while in New York.  Other than that, we were just normal Suburbanites wading through the outlandish crowd.  Half the fun is people watching, I think.


I've got "homework" tonight.  Ugh.  Not looking forward to Monday.