Weekly Workouts – still not yet!

This week’s stats as of Sunday  – 14 weeks until Berlin Marathon, 9 weeks post injury… and AGAIN still not running!  Well, ok, there were 4 “runs”, but they just solidified the fact that my leg still hurts and is not cooperating.  I had great hopes, but sadly they were not enough to get me through it.  This week has been ungodly hot and I spent the majority of it sitting outside at my Mom’s garage sale.  If nothing else, I drank 500 gallons of water and probably sweated off 3 pounds, so there’s a silver lining I guess!

Here’s what went down..

Mon – 2 mile treadmill walk.  TV time! A crazy thing happened at my Mom’s house last night. A “downburst” hit her backyard and took down two large trees. Luckily there was no damage to her house or barn/shed. She was so lucky! Dad was watching out for her.

Tues – Today was a well rounded fitness day!  Running, biking, swimming, weights!  I started the week with high hopes.  I ran .6 of a mile. A little joggy jog around the block to see how the leg was feeling.  I think this went pretty good, despite still feeling tightness and slight pain.

I did a quick change in my transition center (the garage!) and finished up my morning with a 12 mile ride.  Summer riding mornings are nice.

For my lunch hour I swam laps in my pool.  I do not consider myself a “swimmer” so 20 mins of laps was just fine for me.  I need to do this more often – a good workout although it’s super boring. My attempt to keep my hair dry with a swim cap was a fail.

My daughter asked if I wanted to go to the gym… at 8pm.  Well sure, let’s do it! 

Weds – 1 mile run.  Juneteenth, a day off!! Since I still had tightness in my tendon I had the brilliant idea that I should stretch it out before I started.  What, stretching??  A novel idea.  It did help! Pushing the limit a little more this morning, but felt it was best to cut it at 1 mile. This was the highlight of my week because we went to the water park!  A perfect way to spend a hot summer day. This was also a little celebration for me because I had tests this morning and got an “all clear” from my 6 month follow up to my breast biopsy. Woohoo!

Thurs – 3 mile run!  That’s right, I decided to try running for a few miles.  But once you’ve gone two miles, maybe it could be three, right?  I was determined to get that 5K distance, so I did.  Afterwards my leg certainly didn’t have that runner’s high – it was feeling all beat up and sore.  Whomp, whomp. (don’t judge me on my outfit… I never got sweaty with that .6 mile run yesterday!)

Garage sale time!! This was more for my Mom, but I did take a carload of stuff there to sell.

Afternoon – 15 mile ride.  It felt like riding on the surface of the sun, but hey, that beats running in the heat!  The exercise was good after a long day of hanging out at the garage sale.

Fri – 13 mile ride.  I’ve been limited on my morning ride time this week due to the garage sale situation, but I did get to ride for almost an hour, which was nice.  

Sat – 1 mile run, 1.5 mile walk.  Not sure why I even tried this run because I didn’t feel like it was going to go well, but  I figured it was worth testing out the waters again.  Still a bit tender to start, seemed mostly ok during the run and even a bit more tender after the run.  Finished up with a walk.  Sigh.  

After another ridiculously hot day at the garage sale I went for a 35 mile ride (because who doesn’t like biking when it’s 90 degrees out??). Luckily the shaded path was nice to block the sun and wind for the majority of the ride. It was slow on the way out, but the way back really flew! Also, I got a new bike jersey, so that always cheers me up. There were a few trees down on the trail from the recent storms.

What else cheers me up? Ice cream of course. It hit the spot on this hot day. You can tell it’s been an extra hot week because I have made no effort to do anything to my hair! 😆

Sun –  The weather might be a little cooler, but windy, so who knows. I know it won’t be running! 😉

So overall it was just a frustrating week.  I do have an appointment to see a physical therapist on Wednesday.  I am very interested in seeing what he has to say!   I will end this post on a good note… we got our official adoption pic from last week. Look at Sam’s face! LOL!!! In his defense, he did just get neutered. Maybe he was mad about that.

Need some more inspiration? I’m linking up with Deborah at Confessions of a Mother Runner and Kim from Running on the Fly for their Weekly Run Down. Check out all of the fun blogs there!

Q: Have you been beating the heat in your area?