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January 11, 2008
Nothing Much
I don't really have anything good to write about tonight but as you may have noticed previously, that never stops me from writing a blog entry anyway!
Fridays are my really "easy" day. I only have a short, easy run and lifting at the gym. Sets me up well for the big weekend training (long ride + long run). I did both the run and the lifting this morning before work and all went well except it was really raining quite hard and I got quite wet. Better than snow!
I had another PT appointment this evening after work and I think we had a bit of a break-through! The PT was doing some sort of crazy exercises with my leg and then he stretched out my hammy again afterwards and it felt *really* good. No pain and it stretched quite well! It may be sore again tomorrow but it was nice to see some improvement! As a side note, I wanted to mention that I am still able to do all my training relatively pain-free but I'm mostly doing the PT now to keep that hamstring pain at bay. I don't want to make it sound worse than it is!
And while we are talking about injury prevention I am excited for my return to ice baths tomorrow! In college we pretty much hit the ice bath after every practice. Even if I just think about it I get cold. But it's *almost* a good memory because despite all the chattering, goosebumps and general unhappiness, we often had a lot of fun in the ice baths. Sort of. ANYWAY - after college the ice baths stopped but Marit got me thinking about them again! (check out the picture of her in an ice bath in her tub with her clothes on! :) After reading about Marit's ice baths I thought that sounded like a good idea (ask me again tomorrow after I sit in freezing cold water for 15 minutes to see if I still think it's a good idea). So we are going to buy some bags of ice and store them in our huge extra freezer in our basement (left to us by the previous owner of our house) until after my ride tomorrow. I think I might try to do them once a week for recovery and as a great way to ice all those aching parts all at once! We shall see though. We shall see!
Posted by beth at January 11, 2008 7:20 PM
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Duh-duh-duh, the ice bath. Perhaps you'll blog about it with some photos of you trying to smile while freezing your beeee-hind off? Oh the ice bath. It's free here in Wyoming, any little stream, anywhere is about that temp for most of the year. :) Good luck with your big training weekend!
Posted by: Meghan at January 11, 2008 8:44 PM