The Workouts
Right now, there isn't a lot to say about the day-to-day workouts. As I've mentioned before, these aren't landmark, record-breaking workouts. They are just more of the "get it done, work hard, and move on" variety right now. And I'm good with that. But when you are blogging about your training, and your training is completely unremarkable, I guess the blogging will be a little irregular too.
I've been getting back in the pool more often and doing more focused workouts there. Oh hey, out of swimming shape, nice of you to join us. But I know that this is what it takes. And also, I forgot how much I enjoy swimming and working hard in the pool. I think by the end of last season I'd done a bit too much black line staring and was ready for a little break from structured workouts in the water. And I got it. And now, I'm ready to work hard again and I look forward to the little blue boxes on Training Peaks. Plus, I got a new swimsuit with puppies on it, so that really doesn't hurt my motivation.
I'm making significant progress with the knee injury I mentioned earlier. But I'm not quite ready to blog about it and proclaim that I've found the solution (though, I'm pretty sure I have). I'm superstitious like that. If I mention it, I fear I may start feeling that old familiar knee pain on my run today. It's dumb I know. But right now, I feel like I'm still in the "testing it out" phase. And I'd like to stay there. Thankyouverymuch.
But, I will tell you this, this weekend, I ran an 8.5 mile race. I didn't race it. And it was slllloooowwww. Oh so slow. But it's the longest I've run without knee pain, and I was grinning like a fool the entire way though, because it feels so fun to run without my knee being a little...well, you know. I feel like it was a breakthrough run in terms of injury recovery. And for that, I'm proud. I've done it right. I haven't pushed past what my body is ready to do. I've been strengthening and stretching and ARTing and rolling and icing.
I've been getting back in the pool more often and doing more focused workouts there. Oh hey, out of swimming shape, nice of you to join us. But I know that this is what it takes. And also, I forgot how much I enjoy swimming and working hard in the pool. I think by the end of last season I'd done a bit too much black line staring and was ready for a little break from structured workouts in the water. And I got it. And now, I'm ready to work hard again and I look forward to the little blue boxes on Training Peaks. Plus, I got a new swimsuit with puppies on it, so that really doesn't hurt my motivation.
I'm making significant progress with the knee injury I mentioned earlier. But I'm not quite ready to blog about it and proclaim that I've found the solution (though, I'm pretty sure I have). I'm superstitious like that. If I mention it, I fear I may start feeling that old familiar knee pain on my run today. It's dumb I know. But right now, I feel like I'm still in the "testing it out" phase. And I'd like to stay there. Thankyouverymuch.
But, I will tell you this, this weekend, I ran an 8.5 mile race. I didn't race it. And it was slllloooowwww. Oh so slow. But it's the longest I've run without knee pain, and I was grinning like a fool the entire way though, because it feels so fun to run without my knee being a little...well, you know. I feel like it was a breakthrough run in terms of injury recovery. And for that, I'm proud. I've done it right. I haven't pushed past what my body is ready to do. I've been strengthening and stretching and ARTing and rolling and icing.
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| All the icing |
And all of it together, with a few other little tricks, it's working. And I'm happy.
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| Selfie after the race. Such a cliche blogger move. Dumb. |
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