Weekly Rundown- Glad That’s Over!
Happy May! To begin with, I’m very happy to share that my son Paul will be attending Baylor University in the fall! Baylor has a great music school and a trumpet teacher that he’s excited to work with. Go Bears!!! On a side note, I’m very glad my daughter is only twelve so I have six years before I have to go through that again. Enough said! Let’s move on to the week! It was a cutback week, which meant that all sorts of weird things happened, because that’s how cutback weeks seem to go for me. I’m linking up with Kim and Deborah for this Weekly Rundown. Here it is! Monday Day off, as always. I expected to feel a little sore from my long run the day before, but everything was fine. Tuesday Three mile run, and my legs felt really good. Followed this by upper body strength, focusing on pull-ups. This was the day I came to terms with my relationship to pull-ups, ha ha. Then on Tuesday afternoon I got my second Covid shot. I felt great! Until about 8 pm, when I started to feel awful… I went to bed and tossed and turned all night. I was hot, I was cold, I had to go to the bathroom, I was hungry (what?) I had a headache, my hand hurt (what???) … it was quite a night. Wednesday Obviously, a day off. Knowing I was getting my shot on Tuesday, I kept the possibility open of doing an easy run this day (ha, not quite!) or just resting. I woke up with a horrible headache, took some Tylenol and rested on the couch all day. By bedtime I felt about 80% better and decided to sleep in a little later than normal Thursday morning and see what the day would bring. Thursday Ah! Much better! I decided to do some lower body strength in the morning, including some moves I haven’t done in a while (or possibly, ever) which were recommended on this Strength Running podcast episode. Heel raises, curtsy lunges, some diagnostic exercises to see where you’re weak. It was good stuff. I don’t usually run after work, but I was feeling completely back to normal and didn’t want to go two days in a row without running. It was 88 degrees but so what? I’m a Floridian! I went out for a quick, hot, and satisfying three mile run. Friday Four mile run with some strides at the end. I think you might technically call these “surges,” because with a stride you would rest completely after each one. I incorporated these into the last mile of my run, and jogged slowly between each one until I felt fully recovered. Everything felt GREAT until in the middle of the last stride (surge) I felt a sharp twinge in my left foot. Ah…. seriously? Now what? It wasn’t so bad that I had to stop, and I did a short cooldown run to end with, but I felt it the whole time. I’ve been through so many of these moments with this foot, and I take everything seriously but I also don’t get too hysterical about things because they all pass. I did my somatic movement routine to loosen my calves, feet and low back, and put it out of my mind. Saturday The choice for this day was a short run, or lower body weights. Obviously the run would have won out pleasure-wise, but my foot hurt a bit. Even though I wasn’t planning anything long for Sunday I still wanted to have a nice run, so I skipped this run and did a lower body routine including squats and Runner’s Touch exercise. It felt good to get that done for the week! Sunday Yay!!! Even though it wasn’t a long run I was still happy to get out and do six miles. My foot felt…fine… in the context of my universe. I felt the pain, but it wasn’t sharp. It was the type of pain I’m used to ignoring until it goes away. My legs felt super heavy though. I wanted to blame it on the Covid vaccine, but then I remembered I did squats yesterday. (See this article, “Vaccine Side Effect, or Have You just Been Alive for 40 Years?” ha ha…) Cutback weeks always throw me off somehow. I’ll be glad to get back to normal, and I have a super fun adventure planned for next Sunday! Anyone go to Baylor? Have you been to Waco? – Due to Covid we didn’t get to visit, but have been watching episodes of “Fixer Upper” to catch glimpses of Waco- it looks nice! Anyone else have hot temperatures this week? – We’re fully into summer here.