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December 14, 2006
I Kid You Not...
...it's 57 degrees here! That is crazy. Who says global warming is a bad thing?!?! (that was a joke of course - I'm not really for global warming...)
Anyway, I swam this morning at masters practice.
3800 yds total (900 yds warmup, 150 yds cooldown)
30x75 yds as:
5x75 on 1:25
5x75 on 1:15
5x75 on 1:20
5x75 on 1:10
5x75 on 1:15
5x75 on 1:05
10x50 kick on 1 minute
More impressive than anything is the fact that I kept track of all 30 repeats. Okay, I had some help from my lane buddies. Okay, I really lost track on the first 5. Okay, at one point I thought we had only done 10 and we had really done 15 because I somehow forgot a whole set we had already completed. I never said doing math was my strong point. :)
Anyway, the workout wasn't that killer of a workout but that's a good thing because tomorrow's will be. 20x100 on 1:30 by myself in the warm YMCA pool. It will take everything I have to get that done. Especially becase my arms are tired! But after tomorrow's workout I will (hopefully) have over 15,000 yds for the week which was my goal. Cool.
At work today I did a special project instead of seeing patients like I usually do. This special project kept me sitting at my desk all day on the computer and I got a taste for what it's like to have a desk job. It didn't taste too good! Yuck. I had to get up like every 15 minutes to move around. I don't know how people do that their whole lives.
After work I walked up to my car and it felt like track practice - like April, not like Christmas is in 1.5 weeks. AHHHH!!!! I love warm weather.
It was at that point that I knew I was going running this afternoon, regardless of what my foot thought about the matter. So when O got home from work around 5 pm we set off on our 12 miler. Yes, 12 miler. Honestly, it might not have been the best thing in the world to do given my foot situation but it was so nice outside and I felt sooooooo good running otherwise. And my foot hurt but it wasn't debilitating and I wasn't limping and after a while the pain became kind of dull. What's really frustrating about this injury is that it honestly only hurts with my running shoes on. I could wear any other shoes, or go barefoot and be absolutely fine! After the run it was sore but now, serveral hours later, I can press on it and it's fine. It's so strange. And I'm really at a loss as to what to do. Push through it? I only run 2-3 days/week anyway, I can probably survive through this and it will be fine. Or stop running altogether? I know that's probably the better option but of course that's not what I want to hear. Once a runner, always a runner. And a stubborn runner at that. Regardless, at this point in time I don't have any running on the schedule for at least the next 3 days so I'm not going to worry about it. I got my 12 miles in, I iced, massaged and Advil-ed. Come Monday morning I'll worry about it again. :)
In other news something prompted me to look through my high school yearbook just now. What a hoot! I was reading all the little things people wrote in my book and was getting quite the laugh about it. All these little jokes we had that I do NOT remember at all now but oh how funny they were at the time! I suggest you all get your senior yearbooks now and take a trip down memory lane. You'll get at least one good laugh. My 10 year high school reunion will be this summer (yes, I'm getting old, but not as old as O - the other day at the YMCA a bunch of kids called him "sir"!!!!!!) and I really hope I get to go. I know a lot of people didn't like high school but I'm not one of those people. I loved it. In fact, I think I would go back no problem. :)
Posted by beth at December 14, 2006 9:13 PM
Comments
I was just thinking (I know, what a miracle!), if your foot only hurts while in a running shoe, do you think it might be a shoe issue? Wearing a new shoe? Tied differently? Tied tighter/looser? Maybe your foot is just rejecting the same old shoe? Have you tried trying on different kinds of running shoes to see if there are some that don't bother that tendon?
I'm still sending the good foot wishes!
Posted by: Meghan at December 14, 2006 10:19 PM
I'm on for my 15th reunion this spring... I wasn't a big fan of high school until I found "my people" (took a few years) but I went back to the 10-year and had a good time.
I wish I had your tenacity in the pool... I get bored on 2000y workouts. If I didn't schedule races (New England SCM this weekend) I'd never get in the pool...
Posted by: pjm at December 14, 2006 10:49 PM
There were some highlights to HS but on the whole-NEVER again. EVER. It's my own fault-too insecure-but it's easy to be insecure when you have no idea who you are and everyone is mean-b/c THEY're all insecure...
Posted by: Audrey at December 14, 2006 11:38 PM
Well, it would be like a Religious Right Ring Republican to be in favor of global warming now, wouldn't it? (kidding! maybe.)
As far as the foot injury - if the shoes are bugging you, are you at a point where its time to get new shoes? Sometimes that can aggravate things. Personally, I had a pair of shoes that I bought that worked for me for a few months...then everytime I put them on, I was in pain. Switched to shoes with better support, and then I was fine. Look into it.
Posted by: Frank Franco at December 17, 2006 11:00 AM