Before I get into my blog entry for today, will you look at the weather for the week. Now this is running weather. I will be out for sure three times this week. Keep building up by 10%. We’ll get there!
Well back on the stair machine for some cross training yesterday. Haven’t been on it in a few weeks and it shows. I was just dying. I’ve got to get my weight back down and get in peek shape for this summer. I’ve been procrastinating but not for obvious reasons, lazyness, I’ve been doing so because I was discouraged. Not easy being injured and even more frustrating when the healing process takes this long. Anyhow I will do what I can with the running and not rush it but I am also not going to allow that to continue to be my excuse to eat and drink as I wish. I’m setting out my goals to be accomplished over the next 4, 8 and 12 week marks. My road to recovery. I just hit 200lbs even and goal number one is to be back to 175 in 12 weeks. That is peek running weight for me. That’s only about 8lbs a month, piece of cake! mmmmmm Cake!!! Anyhow you can follow my progress. I’ll also take a few pics now and then some at 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks.
Well first day back at running. I only ran for 10 min. One mile that’s it. Get back into it slowly this week. Going to do everything humanly possible not to get recurrence of my overuse injuries. Took it very easy, ease back into it and did great stretching afterwards. The weather was great for a short run. Could have gotten away with leaving the sweater at home and run in long sleeve technical T but wore the sweater and was somewhat hot. Try and get to the gym tonight after the kids are in bed, well see how I feel then.
Well I’ve started wrapping my left shin with a tensor wrap. I never even really though about it but it’s working wonders. I noticed that the dull ache would begin to return right away in the morning as I would go up and down the stairs getting ready, as I was driving while shifting gears and while walking around. I figured that I would wrap it with moderate pressure and see if that would help. I’ve noticed that the pressure point just above the ankle seems to have almost completely disapeared. There is still some discomfort in the arch but it’s mild to nonexistand throught different points of the day. That can be equally scary as my shoulder surgury was for a pain that wasn’t “always there” and it ended up being major and requiring two surgeries.
