Running intervals 1:05:00 [3]
3 x 10 minutes at marathon-esque pace at Fast Trax intervals. The schedule said 5, but I went with three, just for good measure. Foot held up okay, though not amazingly well.
Note
So, today I went and visited a physio at the Glen Sather Sports clinic. Yeah, my sister is a physio, but I thought I'd go see someone who is not on a tropical island and get some new ideas.
That was a colossal waste of time and money. First thing the physio does, after having a student take my history for 10-15 minutes, is march in and begin to criticize my level of training. I said I typically do about an hour and a half, seven days a week. He says "That's way too much, no runner should be doing that much, have you ever heard of resting?".
Naturally, this caught me a little off guard. This is a sports clinic right? He is aware that perhaps its not exactly 90 minutes every day? Some days are shorter, some are longer, some are faster, some are slower, some days I train (gasp!) TWICE? Seriously, 90 minutes x 7 days is just 10.5 hours, that's not exactly crazy. Do I have to explain how training works?
Now, if I were the physio, I'd think, "Hm, that seems like plenty, I wonder WHY he does that much training? What is his history? Does he have experience with this much running?" These seem like pertinent questions to ask. Not just as a physio, but as a someone whose job is to provide quality customer service. How can you possible do your job well if you have no understanding of the context of your customer's needs? That's right, you can't. And thus, he had absolutely no flippin' clue about me. But gosh darn it he was going to judge me anyway.
Sure, once doing the world's fastest assessment, he told me what I already knew. And, sure, he gave me a couple of new strengthening exercises, and some new strategies, and maybe they'll help, but I was too pissed to consider it a positive experience. In my "hour-long" appointment starting at 12:30, I didn't get called in until 12:40, talked with a student until 12:55, waited until 13:00, got criticized until 13:02, was assessed until 13:10, got some exercise advice until 13:20, another quick little criticism and was told, "man, if I ran for 15k in a week, I'd be dead" (which, by the way, strikes me as odd given he was just preaching about how to run), and he was gone by 13:25.
They're all such smug know-it-alls and so dismissive. This is why I hate visiting medical professionals. And bankers. And my financial planner.
If I can take one small positive, is that it reminds that the customer service I provide at the shop is so damn awesome.