Activity: run
Time: 6am
Duration: 18mins
After an incident with the alarm clock (I turned it off rather than hitting snooze), I actually made it out of the house early enough to go for a RUN this morning - a real run - no stopping & no walking - for a grand total of 18mins, LOL. It was more like a Cliff Young shuffle rather than 'run' but I didn't stop :-) Woohoo. 15mins walk to warm-up and cool-down as well (of course!) for a total session of 48mins.
My knee/hip felt pretty good during the session. A little generalised tightness on the side of my knee but nothing like the sharp and 'specific' ITB pain I was experiencing :-) Did 15mins of stretching once I got home and iced it before I headed off to work. It's been good during the course of today - no complaints. Happy days :-)
After work tonight I headed to the gym to see Satan. I usually see Satan at lunch on Mondays and Wednesday. Unfortunately my new office is too far from the gym to be able to go during my lunchbreaks AND Satan has no real vacancies in her schedule so I'll taking other client's spots at the moment while they are away on holidays. Hopefully a regular spot will become free for me very soon....Anyhoo...
Activity: weights with Satan
Time: 6.30pm
Duration: 30mins
A really tough upper body & abs circuit today - particularly given that my abs were still recovering from Monday's session - however I felt much more energetic than I did on Monday:
* single arm cable lat pulldowns
* prone holds (elbows & toes) for 2 mins
* nasty oblique exercise with a swiss ball
* bent over reverse flyes
* shoulder press standing on disks,
repeated twice.
A great day :-)
13 comments:
Yay Jen!!!! That is fantastic!!!!I've just been reading a couple of not so good news blogs. I'm glad I left yours until last :-)
Yeehah! I'm excited. Get out there and run Forrest run!
Damn good news :)
Good onya Jen - it is a testimony to your grit and determination - you inspire me :-)
I see a light... Yes, it really is there... Yes, I'm certain of it now. It, it... it's the light at the end of the tunnel! :-)
sfG
Very nice to know these news!
You are an example of love for running, at this time you are doing so well and being so dedicated and careful is inspiring!
Hip hip hooray!!!!!
Well done Jen. Nothing wrong with the Cliff Young shuffle either. Cliff makes an appearance out my way quite often. ;-)
Oh my god... you need a medal for your persistance and good spirit!!!! I know how frustrated you have been!! I am SOOOOOO happy for you... gotta love that feeling!
Go Jen, Go Jen!!!!
very good news.
It's a nice sensation that running one. Welcome back to the running universe.
Fantastic news Jen. I bet you were relieved to feel no pain. Step by step you will be back running regularly again.
Well done Jen, you must be very excited to out there running again!
:-) :-)
Fantastic Jen. That is such good news! Hope things continue to improve for you.
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