Marching On...

[Crankin]

I do think that the hanging part might help my back, but I know I couldn't ever do it. I'd be frozen with fear and dizzy .
One of my high school aged clients does circus stuff as an activity. She's really good at it and unafraid. I think it really helps deal with trauma, but I am someone who cannot even look over the edge of a narrow trail without feeling dizzy. Hence, the end of my mountain biking career!

[OakLeaf]

I am someone who cannot even look over the edge of a narrow trail without feeling dizzy.

See, me either! But for me, my phobia of falling is very dependent on whether my body feels supported vs capable of falling. So yeah, the one thing that they do in the kite class, that I haven't been able to bring myself to do yet, is the inverted Mountain where you unwind your legs. Even though they don't stay in it long and it's just a preliminary to flipping out of the kite - which I can do fine with hips bent, once I got my head around the idea - I'm terrified when I start losing the pressure of the sling on my butt. But cradled in it, I feel fine.

[OakLeaf]

So the good news is I had an absolutely fabulous workout yesterday. The weather was perfect, race pace felt relaxed, and I'm not even sore today.

The bad news is I did something to my foot. It's not a stress fracture. Not not not not not. Not. Not.

Trying to stay off it today though there's a whole lot of non-running stuff I need to get done that can't be postponed.

Someone send me some healing vibes ...

[Crankin]

Healing vibes sent!

[rocknrollgirl]

So the good news is I had an absolutely fabulous workout yesterday. The weather was perfect, race pace felt relaxed, and I'm not even sore today.

The bad news is I did something to my foot. It's not a stress fracture. Not not not not not. Not. Not.

Trying to stay off it today though there's a whole lot of non-running stuff I need to get done that can't be postponed.

Someone send me some healing vibes ...

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sending right now. So sorry. Any better today?

[OakLeaf]

Thanks guys ... touch wood it's working!

I had my regular massage appointment today and let him take a look at it. He didn't think it's broken, did find some tendon stuff going on, released a bunch of muscles in the foot and the anterior compartment of the shin, and it's right away WAY better on weightbearing. I didn't run yesterday or today and he thinks I should take tomorrow off too, though if I get the time I'll drive up and do some pool running. I don't want to be stupid, I'm very much aware that a little undertrained is way better than a lot injured, but I just don't want to lose too much fitness ...

[emily_in_nc]

Glad it's feeling better oak, but I hardly think a few days off will cost you much, if anything, from your fitness. In fact, when I was cycling nearly every day, I often did better after an enforced several-day layoff. More healing vibes coming from Mexico!

I got myself registered for the 5K run here, which was a bit of a challenge with the language barrier. First I had to go to a shop and pay and get a slip with a number on it. Then I had to officially register via a Spanish website and enter the number on the sheet, plus lots of other information. Somehow I missed that there was a box to check "5K" or "10K" and got myself registered for the 10K...noooooo! I emailed the organizer, and she said that it was fine, no one would force me to run the 10K, but I sure wish I hadn't screwed that up. I guess the default was 10K, since I didn't select either, and I think it should have been the other way around, but, hey, this is Mexico!

So hopefully no injuries prevent me from doing the run -- it's on April 26th. I'm excited but a bit nervous too!

[OakLeaf]

Good luck with the race Emily! That sounds exciting.

My foot is feeling good enough that I decided to try the workout I was supposed to have done Wednesday. I've mostly been able to keep up my mileage with easy running and a bit of deep water running, but I skipped two hard workouts. This was the last scheduled workout in my training plan, nothing but easy running and a few strides from now until race day, and I figured it was okay to try it today since my coach had me do my last hard workout 10 days out last year. It went fine - not overly challenging, foot isn't perfect but it didn't seem to aggravate it, yay. I drove up to run it on the MUP since the roads around here are nothing but mud. (Honestly I think running on a surface that soft actually did my foot some good, although it felt pretty weird - let all the bones move around and get themselves realigned.) While I was out the weather was in the process of turning, a stiff wind blew out the rain we've had for days and it turned into a really nice day.

Getting excited ... Hope everyone's getting some good running weather!