Well the foot is healing, I can weight bear on it so that is sooo positive.. I’m thinking 4 weeks at this point. Just wonder if the bone flake floating around would cause a problem… Anyhow the swelling isn’t bad if I stay off it and keep it up and ice frequently. I think the pool was a great help. Was going to go today or tonight to the gym but my beer on tap and a gold medal game, not going to happen!
Well I was offered a cast or no cast at the ortho clinic today. Opted for no cast and headed to the gym to try and do some workout (all sitting) and also a bit of pool work. It was great being able to get my but out and do some activity. I did wide grip chins, hanging leg raises, shoulder press, seated lateral raises, cable pressdown (rope), preacher curls, seated dumbell curls, incline press, toe catches, pushups, elbow to knee crunches. After hit the pool and did some lenghts driving with the good leg and managed to do some walking in the deep end as most of the weight is suppored by water. In the shallow end a bit more difficult.
Well I got a call just before Sydney’s volleyball playoff game from Hospital asking me to come back advising me that my ankle apears to be broken. Could I come down and get it splinted till I can have a follow up with Ortho Fracture Clinic. I said I would qualifyfor the Boston Marathon before I turn 40 so I’m thinking that maybe I should do it where it all started, back at Disney. Disney Marathon is January 9th, 2011. That would be 9 days before my birthday. We’ll have to see how this heals up, I would like to do it sooner but everything happens for a reason.
Well the resolution for nothing new is getting difficult sometimes. I need a small fridge to build my kegator converstion. So I’ve removed the shelves from my fridge but today is supposed to be grocery day as I got hurt this weekend and there is no room for food… What is more important for an injured person than beer. Anyhow the beer is amazing and the keg is super convenient.
Well my road to Boston just got a bit longer yesterday. Ended up rolling the ankle and tearing all the important things in the ankle. Be off running for at least a month but we’ll get there. I had some great help from two good Samaritans who were kind enough to stop at the side of road and take me home for wallet and emerg. Then a beautiful woman came to meet me at the hospital and turn what could have been a crappy day into a great date, thanks Annie! One day at a time is all you can do… Was a beautiful day though, awesome day for a run. I have to say I was starting to loose my faith in people when cars kept passing by seeing me rolling on the ground including an empty taxi and nobody stopped till about 5 minutes later like I said, two women stopped and helped me out. Happy 40th birthday Kim (the driver who stopped)…
Well I should never have gone for a run the day after my first true leg workout in many months. This was such a difficult run and I was surprised to have lasted 5 miles. Anyhow I got some running in and tonight I’ll require some serious theraputic tub with the jets cranked to full blast. I did the 5 miles in 43:43 for an average pace of 8:45 minute mile. I did walk about 2 minutes in that run also. Absolutly brutal… Was happy to get back to work let me tell you.
Well headed to the Mountain gym today for my workout. I like the facilities more and figured it’s an extra 4 minutes each way why not? I can get a workout in faster as there is more equipment and not a huge difference in amount of people during lunch. Anyhow I went to do legs and chest and just get it done as fast as possible again using supersets. Started with leg curl with wide grip chins as my superset. After that it was time for calf raises with skipping. I followed that up with incline press using the hammersmith machine and overhead press to rest bar on shoulders and do squats. That was killer because I took no break during my three sets. After these I went and did a superset of hanging leg raises (in the roman chair), dips and back extensions. The last workout ended up being the seated row. Great workout and the entire thing took 40 minutes.
Well I had a bit of time to kill this evening after having to drop girls off early to go in search of my wallet. Good thing it was a home. I remembered using it at grocery store’s self checkout and was so worried I left it there. Anyhow took girls to petstore where they got to play with a puppy. After that went for a workout and did a really good hard intense fast workout. Probably took me about 35-40 minutes but in that time managed to do the following. Superset consisting of overhead barbell press which is great for shoulders, back, chest, ballance and core. The overhead press was put to a superset with toe catches for lower abs and skipping. After that I headed over to the rack for cross cable workout supersetted with wide grip chins and hanging leg raises. I got some skipping in there to cool down but keep my heart rate up. After those I did cable curls with supreset of side planks for a minute per side. More arm workout followed doing superset of dips, reverse cable pressdown and elbow to knee crunches. I did managed to get more skipping in there the whole time so by the end of this workout I was well worn out. This also all helped the recovery of my legs following the 8 mile lunch run. Great workout day!
Well I started my run from the office today instead of driving to the base of the Chedoke Trail. This gave me an extra 2 miles. I did not get the support I should have picked up nor did I have a pair of longjohnes on. The running pants I was wearing were a bit to thin and on the up portion of my run I could really feel the wind on my appendage and by the time I got to the top it was very very cold. I’m sure I’ll pay for that later! Anyhow I did an out and back and on the way back I really picked up some speed managing to run one of my miles in 6:37. I was really breathing after that mile but managed to keep the proceding two miles under 8 min miles. Was a great run and now absolutly bagged! Anyhow stats are 8 miles in 1:03.
Well on the days that I’m in Toronto I’ve been trying to get my workout in at lunch in the school gym. In the spring, summer and autumn I run outside when in Toronto but winter is strictly gym here and running back home. Anyhow I headed to the gym with the mindset to get as intense a workout as possible in 50 minutes and it’s pretty incredible how much on can do when it’s all supersets and includes skipping between many of the sets. Anhow workout in this order was wide grip chins with skipping between each set. That was followed by superset of toe cathes, shoulder presses and skipping. After that I did seated lateral raises with superset of elbow to knee crunches with skipping between the crunch sets. That was followed up by hanging leg raises and dumbell curls. Next was preacher curls and skipping. Last superset was dips and incline crunches. Finished off the workout with tricept cable pressdowns. Not a bad workout at all for 50 minute lunch hour. Worked up a great sweat and then devoured my roast beef and tomatoe sandwich.
