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it should not hurt to answer the phone…

17 May

let’s start with a hip update, shall we?

my hip – dare i say it – is significantly better!  no pain and i am running without compression shorts.  tuesday night, my workout with my coach consisted of strides at the track while another girlie he trains did a 2 mile time trial.  i picked my pace up by a good minute on the “easy” run to the track and had no problems.  Then i was even able to do most of the running drills prior to doing strides – including being able to raise and hold my left knee to my chest without any pain.

(video here)

i was unable to do this up until about a few weeks ago.

tonight will be more of a test since i have 4 miles planned for a medium long run.  i should mention that the area isn’t ache free – there is still a sensation in the hip flexor area but it’s feeling a million times better.

i pushed myself on tuesday and was pleasantly surprised at how well i did. i ran a faster pace getting to the track (granted it was to keep up with one of my pals), ran strong strides and only wanted to vomit three times.  i am stoked about my new coach and the fact that he is going to make me fast (because he told me so) and that my training schedule is packed.  this is exactly what i have wanted.  it is a tad daunting but i am not one to be afraid of much.  (that’s both a blessing and a curse.  you know – like a super hero).

tuesday night  after our quality workout i had core work including medicine ball type tomfoolery.  (“floor slams” – because i want an enormous weighted ball flying up at my face) – i wasnt sore yesterday but i am today.  i hurt bending over, coughing, sitting up straight, slouching over, and twisting to answer the phone.  i’m severely weak in the old core area so while it’s welcomed, needed and will even help in my hip flexor situation — this is all going to ache in a bad, bad way.  throw in close to two minutes of planks and other mid evil torture type exercises and you’ve got yourself a whole package of hurt.

(i’d much rather have this expensive package of non-hurt)

i finished a time consuming project at work yesterday so last night I treated myself to wine and skittles.

(you guys, i’m so classy)

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hi!

30 Apr

so.  stuff.

i have had my little hiatus, which in honesty is still going on until the 8th when i begin my new training. i am seriously looking forward to this training and it feels really good to say so.

my hip feels fair.  significantly better than it has and i have a good week to rehab it up and continue to rest it and just elliptical the days away.  i am still aware of the discomfort but it’s better.  there has been improvement.

i am in a much better place mentally, too.   this past week, i took friday off to have a long weekend.  it was really great.  i spent friday with my husband, then the bulk of the weekend with my best friend at the pool then had a lazy sunday with el hubs.

i ate a lot of gluten free pizza.

(a lot of pizza)

the hubs and i visited a gluten free food trailer up in north austin.

this, folks — is a gluten free chocolate chip scone and cookie from lembas austin.  It’s a gluten free, grain free bakery and food trailer.  this was DELICIOUS.  we bought an extra cookie and i kinda wish i had it right now.

so, yeah.  my reset was great.  i spent a lot of time with my love, my best friend, and my couch.  i am ready to get this party started – bring on the texas heat.

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recovery.

18 Apr

wednesday!

i am still sore from sunday’s 10 miler.

i had physical therapy yesterday that my therapist actually cut short.  It was cut short because i couldn’t move! she also said i looked miserable. i probably did.   she mentioned to me that i was not the first person that told her or another therapist that they ran the 1020 and are beyond sore.  the course was twisty, turn-y and it was humid.

see?  twisty. turn-y.

so at least i am not alone in my sore misery.  maybe, somewhere in one of these offices downtown someone else is dying trying to pick a pen up off the floor of their office.  (maybe).

she threw me on the bike to get my quads working and to try to get some of the lactic acid flowing and muscle fiber moving.

good news is that i dont have to go back for three weeks.  THREE WEEKS!  just continue to do my at home therapy and reevaluate from there.

i have little intention of running for about 2 weeks and every intention of just being a gym rat.  my pals agreed that the three of us would take a tiny 2 week recovery break between our long programs and running in general.  i can concentrate on my at home therapy and give my hip a rest.  i would like to be injury free for the start of the san antonio rock & roll half marathon training in July.  after our two week hiatus is up in may we’ll meet up at our regular weekly and saturday times for short mileage just runs until san antonio training.

i think a running reset will be good for me mentally…   and i would like to fall back in love with my running.  not that there was a falling out, but running and i have been in a nasty spell since the austin half in february. i need to get back in touch with one of the main things that define me and brings me joy.

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i dont know what to do

17 Jan

this will probably be a long and rambling post as i try to work through things with my training schedule and injury.

so i have this hip flexor tendinitis thing.  i started physical therapy.  the hip has been annoying me for a while now.  probably started around november maybe.  the pain during long runs has been a 3 or a 4 at the most.

i am registered for the 3m half marathon on january 29 and the livestrong austin half february 19.

i have 3 or 4 10 milers under my belt with only one of them being bad as my running partner was ill.  pain has been through all of those runs.

i have missed our first 12 miler.  i will probably miss the second 12 miler that is set for this weekend, depending on what the therapist says tomorrow.

i am concerned that if i am just running low mileage or running “until it hurts” that i wont have the base for the austin half.  seriously — you can’t taper for over a month.

the 3m half was to be just a long run.  just easy run — not for time, just for distance.  i feel like i NEED to do the 3m because i am cutting myself short on the long runs leading up to the austin half.

i want to do the long run so i can be with my friends.

i also am feeling guilt because i will be letting my running partner down.

my coach called me a “crutch” the other day.  i am no one’s crutch.  i run with a friend.  we run together.  we run the same pace.  we’ve become pals — talking about life.  she helped me through a weird health situation earlier in the training (totally unrelated to running) and through the death of my cat and she’s my friend.  i’m not a crutch.  i just have the device that beeps at us when we go “to fast.”

i weirdly taped the hip flexor this morning to see how it goes on tonight’s run from instructions on a video from you tube.  this is different than the one i attempted last week.  it’s adhering to my skin rather well this time, as i applied it right after getting our of the shower.  i am probably allergic to the tape with my luck.

i am injured and i ache — but last year i did the austin half and finished crying in extreme pain from my IT band.

is it to the point i could chance a stress fracture?  if the injury was worse –  wouldn’t i be doing more than 4 to 6 weeks of pt?

do i run the 3m as an easy run, walking as needed so that i am prepared for the austin half or do i keep rehabbing and slowly running and prepare for austin?

i dont know what to do.

since i am lost in thought, here is a picture of one of my cats.  this is molly.

meet molly.

molly is a bully and has a problem wherein her tongue pokes out of her mouth almost constantly.  this photo is a rare occasion where the tongue is in her mouth and she looks rather sweet.  (it’s a trap)

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