It Was a Week
Hello Everyone! I hope you had an awesome week. My week was uneventful, and ended on a positive note. I’m joining Kim and Deborah for this Weekly Rundown! Let’s get started… Monday Day off as always! It was Memorial Day but I had to work, so it just felt like a normal Monday. Tuesday 45 minute pool run. There’s so little to say about pool running, other than that you have to play little games to keep yourself from getting too bored. I do things like ladder intervals, timed intervals, and so on. For this “run” I listened to this podcast, “When Working Out Doesn’t Work Out.” The host explores her feelings (lukewarm) around exercise and explains why she didn’t really do it much during the pandemic. “She must be crazy!” I thought, as I crazily ran in little circles around and around my pool. Wednesday Another 45 minute pool run. Thursday Wait! I need some strength training around here. First I went for a 20 minute walk to test out my hip (it hurt) and then I did Amanda’s core workout and some lower body work. Coco mentioned that the bird dogs from the core workout look hard. “Hard” is the wrong word. They are literally IMPOSSIBLE. You do them two ways- with your knees on a stability ball and your hands on a chair, and vice versa. Amanda somehow thinks you will then lift one arm and the opposite leg, but let me tell you that’s not happening. I can barely lift one arm shakily and quickly. I’m working on it! Friday Guess what I did today? A 45 minute pool run! Saturday I did the Impossible Core Workout again today (to be fair, it’s only the bird dogs that are impossible- everything else is do-able) plus pull-ups and squats. Sunday I started off with a 30 minute walk. I felt very, very good about this walk because my hip was much better than it was on my last walk. On Thursday I walked for 20 minutes and my hip was cranky the whole time. It wasn’t terrible, and didn’t get any worse as I went on, but it was uncomfortable enough that I wanted to stop. Today I walked for 30 minutes and while I could feel my hip, a little, I didn’t have that level of discomfort. It was encouraging to see that much progress over three days! After my walk I got in the pool for a 5k. Ha… no, I didn’t run 3.1 miles in the pool- that would truly be insane. But I “ran” hard for the same amount of time as my last 5k time trial, three weeks ago. The thing about the water is, you just can’t get your heart rate as high as when running. But mentally it’s very, very hard to keep going fast. And I felt like I got a workout. It’s all good! Do you use a stability ball for core workouts? Ever tried bird dogs on it? What’s the longest you’ve had to take off from running because of an injury? – About ten years ago, I had peroneal tendinitis for an entire year. Every time I would start running again, it would come back. That was a nightmare! But of course it eventually went away and I haven’t had it since.