Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 28th, 2008 in Races
I am among the millions who watched Usain Bolt run the 100m and 200m Olympic races in world record time and I was extremely impressed. I’m from Trinidad & Tobago and being from another Caribbean island, I love seeing other people from the Caribbean succeed on the world stage. Not to be out done, we still managed to pick up a silver medal in the 100m 
Congratulations to Usain Bolt and I’m looking forward to seeing him run in the future as I know his current 100m world record will continue to drop!!
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 2nd, 2008 in Rants, Running
Antonio Pettigrew admitted to doping earlier this year and now the IOC has stripped the US 4×400m relay team of their Sydney 2000 gold medal. As much as the spectators may feel cheated when this occurs, I think the people the cheaters lets down the most are their teammates. As spectators, we are just watching the sports and enjoying it, but their teammates are their peers. Their teammates are going through the same rigorous training. And on a relay team, it if the only chance for some of these runners to get a gold medal and then to find themselves stripped of it is saddening.
The situation is the same for cycling where a single cyclist can bring down the destruction of an entire team.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on July 21st, 2008 in Running, Training
It has now been one month since I started back running and almost 4 weeks since I had the cortisone shot in my right heel. My running chart hasn’t looked this good in a long time:
My right heel has been holding up great and I have just some very minor soreness in my left heel, but even then, it’s only periodic. I think my worse pain or soreness was actually yesterday. For some reason my hips and inner thighs were extremely sore. I don’t know why as I can’t recall doing anything out of the ordinary. I also tried to go for a run yesterday and I just couldn’t do it. My whole body felt tired. I ran 0.25 miles before deciding I probably needed to rest. I ran this morning instead and I felt fine. Very odd!
The plan for now is to continue running 3-4 miles. I can feel my fitness slowly coming back, but it’s now where near what I’d like it to be in order to start ramping up my mileage.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on July 12th, 2008 in Running, Training
After not running regularly for several months, running feels as though I’m almost starting over. I started running 2 years ago, well, probably not running, but I started the C25K plan just about 2 years ago. I think I am probably at the stage I was just after I completed the plan.
For the last couple weeks I’ve been running just 3 miles, but even then I had to take walking breaks in the last 1 - 1.5 miles. Today I managed to run 3 miles without walking and I did an extra mile with a couple walking breaks for a total of 4 miles. It felt great!
My right heel has been great. I have had absolutely no pain, discomfort nor stiffness. Nothing at all all. It feels perfectly normal. I don’t know how long it’ll last, but I hope it’s a long time. I even told my wife the bump at the back of my heel seems smaller, but she says it’s probably just wishful thinking
I have a follow up appointment with my Orthopedic surgeon on Monday to see how my heel is doing.
I am getting very slight stiffness in my left heel, but nothing I am worried about.
The plan for next week is to run 4 miles again on Sunday and then go back to 3-mile runs during the week.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on June 28th, 2008 in Running, Training
Today I did my first run since getting the Cortisone shot. It went great. Normally I have some soreness for the first 0.5 miles or so, but today, my right heel felt completely normal. I still had a little soreness in my left heel, but that was fully expected.
As of today I feel very good about being able to resume running on a regular basis. My plan is to stick to just 3-mile runs for now. The last thing I want to do is overdo it and cause some other problem.
