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February 17, 2006
Getting Away With Greedy?
I think I might have gotten away with my greedy 50 minute run yesterday! First of all, it's about 20 degrees with a windchill of something much colder today - quite the drastic change from my 57 degree run yesterday. Secondly, my knee feels okay, at the very least not worse and truthfully (I think) somewhat better.
I had planned on doing a little swimming today but postponed it until after work so I would have the whole day to walk around on my knee and see how it felt. Turns out it felt pretty good (sore when I woke up but better throughout the day) so I headed to the YMCA after work.
As I got in the water I suddenly got concerned that pushing off the pool wall would make my knee ache but things seemed fine so I went ahead with my planned workout:
400 yd easy/200 yd kick easy/200 yd easy
2x400 on 9
2x200 on 4:30
2x100 on 2
200 yd kick easy/600 yd easy (w/some drills)
That was 3000 yds and my knee didn't seem much worse for the wear. I came home and iced myself down. Now everything is frozen and numb. :)
If my injury progresses as it has been I'm going to label it the best injury I've ever had. After having PF linger for over 7.5 months, a week long injury is like a breath of fresh air. Of course I'm not counting out the fact that it may ache again sometime very soon, but I'm hoping for the best. As of now I plan to swim again tomorrow, take Sunday off, run Monday and then go from there. I'm trying to avoid the bike for a little while because I think that is what preciptated this whole ordeal.
And now it's Friday and I have a 3 day weekend coming up! I took Monday as a vacation day, mostly because O has it off (President's Day) and also because I have vacation time to waste. Nice. :) Hope everyone had a great start to their weekends!
Posted by beth at February 17, 2006 6:48 PM