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June 29, 2005
Audrey=Genius
It’s pretty obvious to me that at the moment I am walking a fine line between the healthy world of pushing myself to be faster and get stronger and injury land. I take it day to day. This morning I had a brick workout planned of a 4 mile hilly bike ride to the pool, a 30 minute swim, and a 4 mile hilly bike ride back. As I was walking down the stairs my knee felt weird, probably b/c I did two knee intensive workouts yesterday. I aborted the bike idea and drove over to the pool to swim. Do you see how smart I am??? Actually, it’s not really smartness at all, just more experience knowing my body and what works for me specifically training wise. It’s also more experience knowing that rest is more valuable to my fitness than destroying my knee (which I have done in the past.) I do have an OVERUSE injury! For me, I think the biking plus ramping up my running post this knee injury is too much. For right now at least, my knee needs more recovery time between workouts.
Unfortunately, since I choose running over biking every time, this means my tri preparation will be unbalanced. I hope Blondie is right and that I can wing it and my current fitness will carry me through. The race is just for fun, as they all are, so that’s alright with me. I have to remember that two months ago I couldn’t walk without pain so I do need to be a little (well, a lot) grateful here for my current situation. I think I may hit 16 miles this week if all goes well.
As for people who requested the list of what my boss told me yesterday regarding protecting your hair while swimming:
-wet your hair with tap water/shower water before you get in the pool (so it is already wet and does not absorb the chlorinated water)
-wear a swimming cap
-rinse/wash hair immediately after getting out of the water
-there is special shampoo that removes chlorine if you really need it
-some people put conditioner on their hair under their swim cap
(I was doing none of the above).
Also, per another work conversation where I basically told my boss she needs to buy a home computer, I started thinking about my personal list of things that I choose to spend my money on:
-Healthy food (I don’t mean organic, I just mean I’ll buy the skim even if the low-fat is on sale-or the bottled water even if soda is cheaper).
-Workout/athletic/health things (things like race entry fees, sneakers, gym membership, pool fees, bike, sunscreen, vitamins, co-pays, orthotics)
-Internet access
Other than that, I really think I could go without and be happy.
Posted by Audrey at June 29, 2005 10:03 PM
Comments
You are a genius!!! From injury world I can tell you (not that you already don't know this) taking time off sucks!!! So a day of rest, or two or three, is muuuuch better than two months!!!! Hopefully in two months or so I can join you back in recovery land!!!
Posted by: Nanda at June 30, 2005 09:14 AM
Audrey, I thought that you would find Vicki Huber Rudawsky's article about rest informative if you didn't read it already (linked on fast-women.com).
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at June 30, 2005 09:54 AM
Good for you! That is awesome. I am very proud of you for being so smart.
I do think that you will be fine for the tri. The bike is the easiest part in my opinion.
Posted by: Barb at June 30, 2005 10:57 AM
I totally agree with Blondie, your fitness will carry you through, as long as you have trained running off the bike. Relax, I think you are going to surprise yourself!
Posted by: Dawn at June 30, 2005 08:06 PM