Surprise!!!

I went to workout tonight and thought you know what I'm going to try and run again!!! I did and it went great I ran 3.1 miles. I can tell I am not completely healed I could feel some discomfort but nothing to really write home about. So this means I can't get back on the running wagon yet but I am going to slowly reintroduce it into my routine so probably once a week maybe twice a week and see how it feel with a lot of no impact cross training ice elevation and keeping the boot on more then I have been. But this was an encouraging outing but i don't want to go too fast on my end!

-Rookie Runner-

HELP ME WALK

Okay I am going for another test this weekend and it is only a walk, it is to help fight heart disease and I'm asking for your help. Here is the link to my web page to donate and help support the fight. This walk in only three mile I am still kinda worried that is may be too long for me but my foot has been feeling good but it still get VERY swollen after any activity so we shall see. Thanks so much for all your support.

http://blba.us/i.asp?id=327158-305386919-1

Doctor's Report Part 1

So last Thursday I went back to the doctor to see what our next step was going to be. I reported on my test run and told him that I still have pain no where near where it was but still can't run. HE was debating on whether I need MORE/Stronger steroids to take or pain meds, but before he was going to make any decisions he wanted to have me get a bone scan. So yesterday I headed to the hospital to become radio active and have them scan my right foot. I got there at 830 am and the injected me with a tracer (that would be the radio active part of the process). After that they took a few still shots of my foot then off I went to work. I had to go back at noon to get the the bone scan part of things. They took 5 different picture that took about 15 mins each and they are looking at where the blood is concentrated because that will indicted a brake or injury. So as of right now I am doing the waiting game. The people at the hospital have to go over the scan and write a report then send it to my doctor who will then figure out a treatment plan. I should hear from my doctor by Thursday I am hoping. The bad news with all this is that i am still int he boot and the doctor say no half marathon for you!! he said that I will not be healthy enough to run/walk it so looks like I am going on a Denver vacation on instead. I can't handle all the inactivity so maybe not to the best of doctors orders but close I have been biking and rowing at the gym everyday and concentrating on lifting. Last weeks routine was 20 mins on the bike and 20 mins of rowing.. this week I will be upping the ante and doing 30mins on the bike and 25 mins of rowing. Until the doctor's phone call on Thursday.
-Rookie Runner-

Test run results.

So this is how it goes. The doctor told me to go on a test run to see if I still had pain.....Turns out I do. Last night I went to the gym and gave running a shot. First off I wanted to warm up so I did a 5 min bike followed by a good stretch (My dynamic stretch routine) then I hit the treadmill and well I went for 1.25 miles..... NOT WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR.... But it didn't hurt like pain but it was bothersome so I shut er down. After that I hit up the row machine for more cadio after I knocked out 20 min there I was feeling really good and so was my ankle so I tried the out running one more time I got about .5 miles in before I knew I should stop. I lifted my arms after that and was out the door. I headed home and was feeling good about how things went no pain after and so I think I'm on the road to recovery.........Then came Wednesday, this morning I went in for a A.M. workout after getting up enjoying a cup of Joe and a nice ten minute ab burner I was ready for the gym. Today's trial was warm up on the bike for 10 mins then stretch then row for ten then run. Well today the running did not go well at all. I now have pain when I walk again not a lot I just can tell I'm injured I was only able to get in .75 miles in today. So it looks like I am still laid up for awhile but we shall see what the doc says tomorrow am. Good news is I am loving my gym and there are a bunch of things I can do there to stay in shape I will just not be in running shape but by the end of this I think I may have to join a crew team of sorts because I'm a rowing fool these days. My arms are so sore it hurts to hold them in the air for any amount of time. Just typing is a stretch but at least I do not have to lift them until tomorrow if I possibly will be able to. 8am tomorrow and I will have a game plan from Dr. B.
-Rookie Runner-

Here we go its test day!!

I will give an update on my actual test run when it is over. I am not so sure it am 100 percent yet but we shall see how today goes. I did a small test yesterday not with running but with walking with out the boot on for a small portion of the day. When I went to the gym I left the boot in the car. I lased up my tennis shoes and went for it...ish. I did some work on the recumbent bike and that was great because I did not have to move my ankle at all really so i did a nice warm up and earthing felt great. then off to the rowing machine after I got a good stretch in. and when it come to rowing well I did it one legged because the position your foot stay in is total extension and I am not supposed to do that at all, so I worked away with my arms and leg. then when that was done I headed to the weights. I only did a leg workout because I will be doing arms today and i want to be able to get a good work out in even if I can't run. So after the gym I head to my softball game and for the first time and sat and watched and played the cheerleader card, I still had a great time because I have a great team. After I worked up and appetite by watching our team score 26 runs we all decided because it was our last game and it was only 7pm ( we usually get done lat like 9) we all went to dinner and a great little Mexican joint. Dinner was deliouse now I have to convice a certain someone to take me there again:) now that softball is over. Getting very excited to try out the foot but also quite nervous time will tell nothing I can really do about it now beside following the doc's orders.
-Rookie Runner-

Days, Years, Weeks, Months.

It had been ages since I have checked in with the blogging world it is just a lot harder to talk about lifting and ab workouts which is all I have been up to these days. I made a trip back home last weekend to attend a wedding and sing. So I skipped a training day but I am back on the straight and narrow and have been hitting the every other day work out pretty consistently. Due to the fact that I am lifting I have been doing it every other day for recovery. Right now I have an ab video with 3/10 minute work outs and I start with one of those then I stand up and do my Dynamic stretching (not static stretching which is holding one position for 30 secs or so). Dynamic stretching is when you do butt kicks, walking lunges, high knees and skips, and do them slowly and the gradually speed up. It warmps up the muscles and get your heart rate up. I tweak some of the stretching due to the boot and I do not want to over do it. Then after that I head into my heavy arm work out and my legs. I am pretty limited on my legs only can really do two lifts but its better then nothing. After all the heavy lifting I go back to my abs I have core exercises I have to do for my back ( I have a birth defect that has cause one of my vertebra to shift 50% out of place). So to the balance ball I go concentrating on balance and form then I hit another ten minute ab routine to finish up the work out. I am getting bored with this little workout plan and I got a once in a life time offer from a gym near my work ( 2 block away) and jumped on it. All fees waved and the first month free and its cheap too so I will be canceling my Netflix and a tanning package ( mom I don't use it very ofter because it is not healthy gym much better choice) I have had for some time now so it will be a wash. This will be nice because it is so close to work. Lunch hour workouts coming at ya hot. I have a lot more verity at the is gym and I will be adding rowing into my non running workouts now that I have a gym. When this is all said and done and I am back on my feet the training schedule may be altered a bit to three days running and two days of cross training. I need to work back into things slow and 5 days a week of running may have been too much to start out with. But we shall see what the doc says. Only 6 more days and I am back on the running wagon and I can't wait for it.
-RR-

Broken Hearted. Diagnosis.

The Diagnosis: Today was the day I went to the doctor. I know in my last post I said this would only be failure if I let it be. Well I just got the news not but 1 hour ago so your getting the "fresh wound" out look right now. Zero positive attitude coming at you hot. Right now I feel like I just finally had momentum on my running I finally became a runner. I was even into the stage of having to buy real running gear like body glide and nice socks and good sports bras. I guess I can save my rubles. The doctor does not have a solid diagnosis yet but it could be one of two things. The first being - Achilles Tendinitis ( a runner hell!! but what I'm hoping for). The second being torn Tendons- I have grinding and that is what he is worried about that is definitely not normal. I have to wear the walking boot for two weeks 24 hours a day well I get to sleep without it and shower but other then that nothing. I asked him about no or low impact activities and he said absolutely not. After the two weeks we take the boot off and run. If it still hurts that is a bad sign because if I had option "A" I would be good to go and I will be able to continue running and there would be no pain because it only takes a few weeks of rest and it would be healed. With option B- I would be going back to get a bone scan to see if it's a stress fracture and or if my tendon have ripped. I would then likely not even be able to participate in the half marathon at all. Needless to say even if I am only out for an additional two weeks that is a total of three weeks with no cardio training at all. and It would be near impossible to run the whole half. So my goal is no longer attainable. I have now decided that the Seattle half is going to be my new goal its 5 weeks later. Well that is what the doctor said so there you have it.

The reaction: I must say right now I feel like I can't do anything right!! I was doing everything the right way and going slow and steady but I still got injured. I feel like I am going to be a bump on a log now for the next two weeks and turn into a big fat blob!! Nothing works like running does to get into shape. I feel like in two weeks time I will be back in my fat pants and feel like running was a stupid idea to begin with. I am currently in tears because no matter what anyone tells me I don't feel like they understand. I know that they are being supportive and caring and what not but right now I don't care. They were not the ones giving up Seahawks games and beers with friends and getting 5 hours of sleep and waking up at 6 am on weekends to get in a 5 mile run. So it all falls on deaf ears right now. I mean this was my big fear I was even worried about playing my beloved game of softball because I didn't want to get injured. I created a habit and stayed with it pretty well only missing two days in 5 weeks. I have accomplished something I didn't think I could do when it come to running and training and now I have to stop. I want to sit and cry...more. This may all sound dramatic to you all because it is just again two weeks. I was also debating if I should even post my reaction paragraph. But I figure It might help me get it all out there. Or it may show someone else that they are not alone. I said that this blog would be the documentation of my adventure and I wanted to stay true to that. The good bad and the UGLY. So there you have it.

The solution: I was driving back to the office and was racking my brain on activities I can do to stay in shape ( and not a round shape). I was on the fence back and forth be positive or crack. I am still on the face emotionally but mentally I have decided that this will slow me down but it will not stop me. I am going to become a strength training machine, I recently had a goal of doing 100 consecutive push ups (there is a training program). I did not make it but I am going to get back on that band wagon and I am also going to work my core until Victoria ( from Victoria Secret) calls me herself and asks me to be an "Angel" aka bra model. I am going to do join a gym to get more access to different exercise equipment where I will not be using my foot. I am going to need to come up with a training program that I can post and check off just Like I was doing with running. I know I said a lot of this last week but I didn't think I'd be out another two weeks so I did lift and bike last week and tried to run ( unsuccessfully) to stay in shape but its got to be in high gear now. I am going to have to watch my nutrition a touch closer now, but I should have done that anyway. I am going to have a positive mental attitude and practice P.S.T. ( positive self talk). I got that from my coaching friends back home (thanks Jim and Simpson). I also am going to need some help from the big guy up stairs on this one so I will be praying for strength along the way so that I do not get discouraged. I know I have it in me to get through a set back but it is just disheartening.
That was the long and the short of it. I'm feeling pretty good about things and I know it could be worse so I am thankful its not.
-Rookie Runner-