GOODBYE TO OCTOBER
The first weekend in October, a long-time friend from Phoenix, Ed, visited for the day. We chose as our activity the Heritage Festival at Pioneer Museum. What a delightful array of activities they had available!
Built in 1908 as a hospital for the indigent, the museum now houses various historical exhibits, including an iron lung, and on this day several military exhibits.
We enjoyed a talk by Cookie as well as a tasting of chuck wagon beans.
You can see the whole chuck wagon in the background; Ron successfully tried his hand at lassoing.
Candle making via dipping was available:
Wool shearing and spinning demos were fun.
Ron joined in the NAU Logging Sports club demo-he didn't tell them he was a ringer. He's lately renewed an interest in knife and axe throwing and practices in our yard.
The club members showed off their skills. The club competes at the intramural level.
Mountain Men showed us their tools.
This representative of the Navajo Code Talkers was highly knowledgeable and full of interesting stories about how Code Talking was actually carried out.
What a delightful way to spend a gorgeous afternoon.
After a late lunch, Ed headed back home. That same evening, Ron and I went to the Theatrikos presentation of "Gods of Carnage".
This was a terrific play, showing two couples who agree to meet to discuss a situation civilly and the disintegration of their intentions into chaos. Serious, but plenty of humor.
I'm following a particular training schedule for the Honolulu Marathon, and the next day I ran the longest run so far. To my vast disappointment, I injured. Iliotibial Band Syndrome.
"Iliotibial band syndrome is one of the top 10 injuries seen in distance runners. Weak hip abductor muscles play a large role in the development of ITB syndrome. These weak hip abductors are part of a commonly seen pattern of weak core muscles. This leads to a muscle imbalance. On longer runs, and as you are just starting to increase the length of your runs, your hip abductors can become fatigued and require the added assistance of the muscles which attach into the ITB to work harder. It seems that this sequence of events may lead to increased tension in the ITB causing the injury. Strengthening the hip abductors and stretching the ITB and structures that attach in to it are usually the keys to recovering from this problem."
This is what happened to me. I'm seeing a sports doc for physiotherapy and doing lots of hip abductor and gluteus medius strengthening work. Running has been suspended, with 10 minute runs starting just started October 31. The fate of the marathon is on hold. Though I would be disappointed if I couldn't run it, I'm pretty sure Ron and I will be able to find something to do in HAWAII for that day.
October 12-16 was our most delightful 2014 Wallace Family Gathering, detailed in an earlier post.
We celebrated Ron's October 16 birthday during our Gathering. His birthday "gift" is our trip to Hawaii.
Our first choice for the fall/winter theater movie season was to see my movie-star crush Denzel Washington in "The Equalizer."
The Equalizing referenced in the title is accomplished by a lot of explicit violence. Denzel often portrays an emotionally vulnerable man, flawed in his righteousness, driven to extreme in his quest for justice and personal redemption. He does that well in this movie.
As always, there was the usual amount of reading:
Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—
A sound which makes us linger;—yet—farewell!
~Lord Byron
Wool shearing and spinning demos were fun.
Ron joined in the NAU Logging Sports club demo-he didn't tell them he was a ringer. He's lately renewed an interest in knife and axe throwing and practices in our yard.
The club members showed off their skills. The club competes at the intramural level.
Mountain Men showed us their tools.
This representative of the Navajo Code Talkers was highly knowledgeable and full of interesting stories about how Code Talking was actually carried out.
What a delightful way to spend a gorgeous afternoon.
After a late lunch, Ed headed back home. That same evening, Ron and I went to the Theatrikos presentation of "Gods of Carnage".
This was a terrific play, showing two couples who agree to meet to discuss a situation civilly and the disintegration of their intentions into chaos. Serious, but plenty of humor.
I'm following a particular training schedule for the Honolulu Marathon, and the next day I ran the longest run so far. To my vast disappointment, I injured. Iliotibial Band Syndrome.
"Iliotibial band syndrome is one of the top 10 injuries seen in distance runners. Weak hip abductor muscles play a large role in the development of ITB syndrome. These weak hip abductors are part of a commonly seen pattern of weak core muscles. This leads to a muscle imbalance. On longer runs, and as you are just starting to increase the length of your runs, your hip abductors can become fatigued and require the added assistance of the muscles which attach into the ITB to work harder. It seems that this sequence of events may lead to increased tension in the ITB causing the injury. Strengthening the hip abductors and stretching the ITB and structures that attach in to it are usually the keys to recovering from this problem."
This is what happened to me. I'm seeing a sports doc for physiotherapy and doing lots of hip abductor and gluteus medius strengthening work. Running has been suspended, with 10 minute runs starting just started October 31. The fate of the marathon is on hold. Though I would be disappointed if I couldn't run it, I'm pretty sure Ron and I will be able to find something to do in HAWAII for that day.
October 12-16 was our most delightful 2014 Wallace Family Gathering, detailed in an earlier post.
We celebrated Ron's October 16 birthday during our Gathering. His birthday "gift" is our trip to Hawaii.
Our first choice for the fall/winter theater movie season was to see my movie-star crush Denzel Washington in "The Equalizer."
The Equalizing referenced in the title is accomplished by a lot of explicit violence. Denzel often portrays an emotionally vulnerable man, flawed in his righteousness, driven to extreme in his quest for justice and personal redemption. He does that well in this movie.
As always, there was the usual amount of reading:
Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—
A sound which makes us linger;—yet—farewell!
~Lord Byron
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