Weekly Rundown- Soggy Edition
Hello! I hope everyone had a great week! Mine was filled with…. lots of water. I’m linking up with Kim and Deborah for the Weekly Rundown! Let’s dive right in (get it… DIVE… oh wait… that’ll make more sense in just a minute.) Monday Day off, and I was really worried about my hip flexor. It had been a week since I hurt it and five days since I last ran. It hurt SO MUCH. I was on my feet all day at work, and by the evening I was limping. Every single worst case scenario went through my mind. Tuesday Started the day with pull-ups, and then a 40 minute pool run. While I’m not happy about this situation, I realize how lucky I am to have a pool in my backyard (it’s a Florida thing) so pool running is a convenient option for me. I use a flotation device and run in the deep end, and my feet don’t touch the bottom. Later in the day I went to the doctor, which I discussed here. He dismissed all of my worst fears, adjusted my low back, loosened my hip flexor, told me to continue to rest it and take some anti-inflammatories. He also said the bike might stress it too much, so I knew I had a week of pool running ahead of me. Wednesday Another pool run, of course! 45 minutes this time. I followed this with Amanda’s Stability Ball Core Workout. WOW. This was hard! I thought my core was strong after all the plank gauntlet workouts I’ve been doing, but no. Just goes to show, you have to switch up your workouts. My body was good at the planks, but horrible at balancing with the stability ball. Thursday I stuck to my usual Thursday schedule, which is lower body weights. My hip was still really sore, and I had another busy day at work. I took my doctor’s advice and started pounding the Advil. Not to make light of a very serious problem, but I can see why people get addicted to drugs. Two Advils and an hour later, I was a new person. NOTHING hurt! As a matter of fact my whole body felt amazing. A few hours later, when I started to feel a slight pain in my hip, I took two more magic pills. Friday Back to pool running! For this one, I did a guided run from Tina Muir’s podcast. She guides you through a warmup, workout, and then a cool down. She has a 30 minute option and 45 minute option- I did the 45 minute, because the only thing better than pool running is MORE pool running, right??? Ha ha. Just kidding. Obviously. I went down to one Advil every four hours on this day, and still felt great. Since I didn’t want to OD on it, I switched to turmeric both Thursday and Friday nights. I just mix a teaspoon of turmeric in some water and drink it down. Not only is turmeric an anti-inflammatory, it can also help relieve pain. Maybe not quite as effective as Advil, but it still took the edge off. Saturday Yet another pool run. I relieved the monotony of this run by creating my own little workout- I “run” in circles around the deep end of my pool, so I did two fast laps, then one lap with legs only (which makes it way harder) and then one recovery lap. I repeated this… oh I don’t know, about nine thousand times, to make a 40 minute workout. Later in the day I did Amanda’s stability ball workout again, and some more lower body. I only took one Advil all day today, and my hip felt pretty good! Sunday Unfortunately no fun adventures for this Sunday, unless you count the hour I spent running in circles in the pool (no? I didn’t think so.) I did another guided run for this one, with Kelly Roberts from Run, Selfie, Repeat. I didn’t like this one as much as Tina Muir’s. It wasn’t bad, but I liked how Tina really kept the focus on running, whereas Kelly meandered from topic to topic- all good topics, but I found it to be distracting during the workout portion. I had to tune her out in order to focus on moving fast. Her warmup and workout took 30 minutes and then I switched to music for the second 30 minutes. Done! Moving forward, I’m hoping to run somewhere other than the pool this week. We will see! Anyone have big plans for this weekend? – I work tomorrow during the day, but I think my husband is going to grill up some Impossible Burgers for dinner. What’s your favorite type of cross training if you’re inured and can’t run?