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This week I just let everything rest. I jumped to no conclusions, made no judgements or plans pertaining to running and my current plight–if I can even call it that. The Chicago Bears, namely Jay Cutler, now there is plight.
My coaching gig made it easy to shift the focus from me onto my students. For that I am grateful.
In many ways injury reminds me of a prairie burn. We have lots of them in this neck of the woods. They’re dramatic and scary while in progress but after the fire is out, lots of beneficial nutrients are left behind so plants are able to come back stronger than before. Hopefully that will be the case for me as well.
Here’s how I filled my week exercise-wise:
Cycling at least 1 hour every day. I’ve really come to enjoy the bike. It’s my time to ponder the universe. It’s getting brisk out there but nothing I can’t handle. Still pitch black here at 6:30 am now. Blah.
Hip/glute strengthening exercises every day.
I’ve stayed out of the yoga studio for now. Let’s face it: the class in which the incident occurred was too hard not right for me anyway. Hamstring seems to be feeling better, although I haven’t really tested it.
Strength training 2 days
Skating 3 days
Skating plyometrics class
I tried to run yesterday, alas the nagging hip made its presence known so I stopped after a couple miles.
I finally let the Caveman cancel our hotel in Minneapolis. Funny how it took me a whole week to be able to let that go.
This may be putting myself in the lion’s den, but I volunteered at our school district’s 5k this weekend. It goes off exactly at the time I would have been starting the marathon in Twin Cities. C’est la vie.
My abs are sore today so I must have done something right. That’s more than I can say for Jay Cutler yesterday.
