New Year of Running - 1/1/11 - 1/15/11

[katluvr]

I haven't been here for a while. Running has been intermittant, but I have kept up a few runs through the holidays.
Goal was to run 5 miles on New Years day...let's just say I celebrated a bit too much and hand a long walk instead. So Jan. 2nd was a slow and easy 7 miler. Longest run since my 1/2back in Nov. I am planning on bumping up to 9 tomorrow. Again nice and slow. My next 1/2 in Feb will be at an easy pace with my sister, so just trying to log miles and work off holiday pounds. I have a semi-training schedule on the fridge!
It was muggy and warm this weekend. I did like the cool/cold (for FL) morning runs I did in Dec, but hate the cool/cold days. Tomorrow should be 50's.
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[OakLeaf]

@Indigo - thanks, but no, this is directly below my sternum. I don't even know whether it's properly "chest" or "abdomen." Diaphragm, pleura, fascia, I really don't know, but it pulls and irritates my lungs rather than hurting on the surface.

I took a pretty hard shot there. I remember everything except the actual moment of impact (which, that moment of traumatic amnesia is normal for me), but I was pretty dazed and don't have a good sense of the passage of time - but anyway, when the squad got there they put me on oxygen. I didn't feel like I needed it by then, but maybe I was still having trouble breathing when they first got there, however long that was.

It's been long enough that I am frustrated - two weeks today - but I know from experience how long soft tissue injuries take to heal, and I can't realistically expect to be all healed up "inside" when I still have a few scabs and visible bruising on my hands. I'm just reallyreallyreally thankful it wasn't worse. And that I run, because from the half-pecan-sized lump that will be on my chin for a while yet, I might've broken my neck if I didn't have good bones.

So anyway, I just did two miles today, for the sake of getting out there and sweating and the "discipline" I mentioned before.

[limewave]

@Indigo - thanks, but no, this is directly below my sternum. I don't even know whether it's properly "chest" or "abdomen." Diaphragm, pleura, fascia, I really don't know, but it pulls and irritates my lungs rather than hurting on the surface.

I took a pretty hard shot there. I remember everything except the actual moment of impact (which, that moment of traumatic amnesia is normal for me), but I was pretty dazed and don't have a good sense of the passage of time - but anyway, when the squad got there they put me on oxygen. I didn't feel like I needed it by then, but maybe I was still having trouble breathing when they first got there, however long that was.

It's been long enough that I am frustrated - two weeks today - but I know from experience how long soft tissue injuries take to heal, and I can't realistically expect to be all healed up "inside" when I still have a few scabs and visible bruising on my hands. I'm just reallyreallyreally thankful it wasn't worse. And that I run, because from the half-pecan-sized lump that will be on my chin for a while yet, I might've broken my neck if I didn't have good bones.

Could you have possibly knocked out one of your ribs? I'm just throwing it out there. Some of my ribs get pulled out and I have to have them popped back in. It makes it very difficult to run and sometimes bike when they are out. It hurts to breathe and aches.

[OakLeaf]

They x-rayed my chest at the ER and didn't find anything. There's really no pain, nothing feels out of place; it only bothers me when I run, but that's the only thing I've been doing that makes me breathe hard, so I don't have a good sense whether it's the abdominal muscles or the respiratory system that's bothering it.

It'll heal. Everything else is ... it's just taking time.

[indigoiis]

Oh, Oak. Duh me. I forgot about your fall.
My friend broke some ribs earlier this year and the docs told her to do deep breathing exercises so she wouldn't develop pneumonia.

[limewave]

5 mile tempo run. Kind of. The roads are pretty slick, so not as much tempo as I had planned.

[OakLeaf]

3.7 for me today and my chest feels much, much better. I had a lot of fatigue in the upper abdominal muscles, but I'll take that.

[Bike Chick]

Could you have possibly knocked out one of your ribs? I'm just throwing it out there. Some of my ribs get pulled out and I have to have them popped back in. It makes it very difficult to run and sometimes bike when they are out. It hurts to breathe and aches.

Lime, I have problems with this too and it does hurt. Oak, my doctor told me it could happen from just leaning across the side of the bathtub so it's possible your accident knocked some ribs out of place if nothing showed up on the x-rays. I do hope you heal soon.

Still no running for me. I tried to run New Year's Eve and all I could manage was a hobble. The tendonitis is no better. I've made an appointment with my doctor for next week. Man, I hate going back!

[skhill]

The weather over the weekend looks pretty icky for running, so I got up extra extra early to get in my long run this morning. It was great! The snow started falling within my first mile, and kept falling lightly the whole time. 9 miles, slow enough that I could have gone a couple more if I'd had the time. And I was greeted at my front door by my dog, demanding his walk, so we had a pleasant cool-down at elderly dog pace....

[colby]

Just a couple of 30 minute runs this week, still able to entertain my dog for the time being until my hard work begins. Wet, snow on the ground still, but not as cold. First week in about a month I've worked out every single day, my metabolism already remembers what this is about and is getting fired up. I really need to have my BMR and stuff measured to figure out what I should be eating and how much, I just don't feel like I've got it right.

[emily_in_nc]

Two treadmill runs this week -- 2.75 miles on Wed. and 3.5 miles today. Not very exciting, but hopefully helpful w/the 4 lbs. I gained over the holidays and keeping the bones/heart healthy!