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April 30, 2005
I'm (Momentarily) the Good Kid
Out of respect for my family (who don’t even know I have this blog) I won’t detail the drama, but suffice to say, in the last 24 hours two of the kids (not me!) in two completely separate situations have given my parents some VERY interesting things to think about. Every time my mom contacted me in this time period either over e-mail, IM, or phone call, the conversation started with, “You are not going to believe this.” Finally she said, “Yeah…your Dad needed to get out of the house. He went running.” [This is the link to how all of this relates to my blog!] See what a good coping tool this sport is!! Sidenote: Everyone is fine, nothing REALLY bad happened.
There was some serious delayed onset muscle soreness yesterday afternoon/night from the quad exercises. It necessitated a nighttime walk to A) remove myself from my computer and B) loosen the legs up. It was GORGEOUS out. Also, my neighborhood is known for having really safe parks. This must be why there are NO monkey bars! Nevertheless, I found a poor substitute and attempted to do a pull-up, which I still can’t. It’s interesting b/c I think I am in good shape b/c I run and cross train-but really, I have no upper body strength and as is evidenced by the lunging exercises I can’t do, I have no lower body strength either. I have numerous things to work on.
I went to the gym this morning for a core class and lifted upper body. I also did some lower body exercises that are good for the quad/knee. I biked to the gym (only 1 mile each way) but other than that decided not to do any cross-training. My priority is running so I don’t want to abuse my poor knee (which feels great!) with other activities. If all goes well I will build up the running and then add the cross-training back in next week.
Everyone must feel this way about their own injuries, but I honestly feel knee injuries are the worst ones to have. It really limits all of your activity choices. There is just a limit to what a hurt knee can handle-and if you feel like working out after that limit, that’s too bad. I feel like other injuries lend themselves so much more easily to cross training.
So far today I did some laundry and some reading before I went to the gym. I am going to see Fever Pitch later with some friends from undergrad. They also went out to a bar last night but I just wasn’t interested at all and stayed home. I am not so into the bar scene anymore. It started with my running-you can’t party as much. For a while though I tried to plan the running around the partying. And now, I’m just not interested. It’s a combination I am sure of taking my health and running more seriously and just growing up. Other than that-I have lots of schoolwork planned for this weekend. My finals are spread out over a few weeks which is ideal, but that means they start…now.
Posted by Audrey at April 30, 2005 12:21 PM