I'm usually one of those people who isn't too tolerant of folks and their sports injuries. "Really", I would think to myself, "suck it up and train already".
That is, until I started running. First was the silly IT band thing which miraculously went away after 10 days of stretching, icing and rolling. I had a great long distance run on Saturday. Felt Great Sunday, went to yoga. Felt great Monday. Tuesday, "BAM!" woke up with a painful hamstring and limped around all day.
Was able to run 4 miles on Tuesday. Today it's excruciating. Got a sports massage on my lunch hour to knead it out, stretched like gumby and then tried to run. Got about 4 steps and had to stop.
I refuse to have even one negative or self doubting thought in my head about this. My plan is to cool it on the running the rest of the week, I'll cycle, stretch and hydrate, meditate and pray. Hopefully all those things are enough to make me feel strong at the starting line.
Sis,
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling w/ my hip this week. Lots of pain. I took today off too...I did 4 on Mond & 3 on Wed. Going to try for two tomorrow (thurs) and sculpt class...but I may get as far as sculpt. You know what? We can run this race on Sunday...we can do it. Think of it this way, no matter what we will be setting a personal record AND we get Glorias! :) stretch, ice, cross train, stretch, ice, cross train repeat.
Maybe subconsiously what we both feel are sympathy pains for the other. We always have the same injuries at the same time without knowing it!
ReplyDeleteWe can run, walk, skip or hop scotch this race to the finish! No matter what, we are still doing this and accomplishing this together!