Well it’s been way too many days since I’ve been running. I’m thinking about just doing a mile or two tomorrow, despite the advice of my parents.
Oh and I went to the doctor today and got a puffer. Woohoo! I might have asthma! Oh joy. Just what I need.
I’m praying the darn doctor’s wrong, as he usually is anyways.
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Today will mark the 3rd day without running. I have a hard time giving one day a week to resting, but three days…. I’m dying!!! But I’ve basically been grounded from running due to a nasty bad cough that keeps me up all hours of the night. I can’t catch my breath for anything and every time I try to talk, I end up coughing up a storm. I think tonight I’ll do some stretching and strength training to at least get my heart pumping a little. Fwah! I must run! I have two weeks to my next race too… :(((
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Well it wasn’t quite as long as I would have liked, but even with my old knee brace on, my knees started hurting on the last mile, so I had to cut it short. Oh well. I got a good run out of it still!
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Today I did some more physical therapy and such. I’m serious about fixing my IT band, because it hurts so dang bad some days. I’m actually considering going back to my physical therapist and letting him know my plans and goals for the year as far as running is considered, and see what he has to say. I know the first thing I will hear is that I need to stop, but I’ll just have to let him know that that isn’t an option. I’ve heard that one too many times from one too many doctors, but I have yet to have any limbs fall off. Plus, there has to be other options. Maybe surgery… I need my IT band loosened; that’s what I need.
I also did some weight lifting and such tonight. Just minor stuff compared to what I used to do, before I started getting into serious running. Man… I used to have toned arms. They kinda melted. Haha…
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I found a running buddy for my run today, and instead of doing the short, hilly run, I went for a longer run. Not to mention, we got a little lost… But it was fun! He and I kept a conversation going the entire time, so we had a decent but easy pace. I think I found a few more bike trails that I’m going to Try out next week.
So my plan for the rest of the week is to rest tomorrow, or do a quick mile or two, and then on Saturday, I want to do an hour-long run, and see how far that gets me. We will see how that goes… I’m doing my long run on Saturday instead of Sunday because the carnival is in town, so I’ll be a little preoccupied on Sunday…
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I started this run off feeling heavy and crappy. My legs felt like they were just dragging along, and I was praying to God for strength to do even a mile. A quarter of a mile into the run, I decided to ditch the trail I had been planning on running, and I took a road that led up to a new part of town where the foundations were being laid for new homes to go in within the year. It was simply gorgeous up there, which helped me forget my dead legs. It was a gradual incline at the beginning of the run, til I reached a peak where I could see over the entirety of my little town. I then ran part of the way down, then down other roads I’ve never been down before until I found a familiar trail, and followed that in a loop back around to where I started. Somehow I made it all 4 miles… Thank you Lord!
Unfortunately, I’m paying for it now… On the way home I almost burst into tears because I could feel pain seeping in under my knee cap, where it hasn’t hurt for years, since my surgery. The crying was more from disappointment than pain. I’m praying hard that I haven’t torn anything… Or there goes my running career…
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I grabbed a friend and ran around the school track at lunch today, just a quick mile. Made me all sweaty… And now I’m starving. Oh well. I ate lunch too early and I didn’t have an after-run snack. I’ll eat in an hour… This is the bummer of running: hunger pains and more hunger pains.
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Today, I let my body take a rest. So I went a step further and used my normal work out time for physical therapy for my knee and IT band syndrome. Also, with my recent discovery of my weak hips, I have been focusing on strengthening specific leg muscles to alleviate the pain associated with my ITBS and hopefully to keep from recurring injuries with my chondromalacia issue. I’m only 17, so I’d hate to continue injuring my body now, when I’ve got so much ahead of me…
So basically the therapy consists of straight leg lifts with 3 lb ankle weights for the majority of the work out. It’s so funny how such a simple exercise can end up being so strenuous for me after 30 minutes. I did a lot of stretching, too. That’s key, I’ve found. There is nothing that feels nicer than a good, deep stretch, followed up by some Tiger Balm massaged into the muscles.
I hate being injured… Especially permanently.
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Today was supposed to be an easy recovery run. I was only going to do any easy, flat 2 miles, and I was going to try to run it at a 7:30/mile pace. Well… I missed a turn somewhere and ended up adding a quarter of a mile to the run, and what’s more, that quarter mile was all uphill. That pretty much did me in, so the last bit of the run, my pace slowed waaay down, which made my average pace go way higher. Kinda a bummer, but I guess I got a little extra work out in. I’m sore now… But now I have a new route, too!
Oh, and to answer the comment on my last day’s work out, I now have a goal for my next race: 7:20/mile pace. I’m going to start some interval training once a week, and I’m hoping to up my weekly mileage to 18 miles. It’s been steadily increasing from 11 to 14 to 15. So I’m on my way there!
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Thought I’d add a little more to my work out today. Basically, I have weak hips, so I was just doing some hip strengthening routines. Hopefully it’ll help my IT band syndrome.
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My goals are to eventually run a sub-20 5K and to run a marathon sometime in the future "Therefore, since there is so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us." - Hebrews 12:1
