Running progress
May. 17th, 2007 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talyenI've slowly started back training. I ran 10 miles last week, and I'm on track for 12 this week. Mostly dirt trails, and somehow that seems better on my shoulder.
I'm cautiously optimistic as I sit here icing. I'm faster than I was when I was training for the marathon, I'm still in less pain, but I'm only running as much as I was in the first two weeks of training. So we'll see. I'm cutting back on PT and starting doing more weight-training on my own, which is kinda cool.
I can even do two regular push-ups. Woo-hoo! I didn't even feel butch, I was so tired just doing those two. Wiped me right out. I'm all for girly pushups as I get stronger, you bet.
9 months since the bike accident, 7 months since I was on my bike. This weekend, I'm going for a ride. I should be strong enough again to hold myself up for the 20 minutes or so that it'll take to go around the airport, a 5.5 mile loop. It's the safest place, and ironically the place I did my bicycle cartwheel. Good for me in so many ways.
It's all about tons of progress.
Oh! And I had a fun time running Tuesday. I scanned the trail map into my brain, then took off from my car into the woods. About 2 miles later, I said to myself, "Self, in about 13 minutes, we should be back, and that's good, 'cuz I'm pooped."
About 12 minutes later, my sense of direction was tingling (like a spidey-sense, you know?). I seemed to be running toward the sun, and the map in my brain (which seemed fuzzy as I tried to access it) indicated I should be running away from the sun. But trails twist, etc.
Running along the bottom of a ridge, though, and then climbing another one, still toward the sun, seemed suspicious, especially with it being 19 minutes since the 2 mile point. So I turned around and walked (you betcha!) back to the last friendly sign pointing me to a road.
Good thing: my internal map was right, I had somehow taken a wrong turn. Bad thing: I have no idea where the wrong turn was, didn't see it coming or returning.
I'll be running that trail backwards after my bike ride on Saturday, just to find the turnout.
I'm cautiously optimistic as I sit here icing. I'm faster than I was when I was training for the marathon, I'm still in less pain, but I'm only running as much as I was in the first two weeks of training. So we'll see. I'm cutting back on PT and starting doing more weight-training on my own, which is kinda cool.
I can even do two regular push-ups. Woo-hoo! I didn't even feel butch, I was so tired just doing those two. Wiped me right out. I'm all for girly pushups as I get stronger, you bet.
9 months since the bike accident, 7 months since I was on my bike. This weekend, I'm going for a ride. I should be strong enough again to hold myself up for the 20 minutes or so that it'll take to go around the airport, a 5.5 mile loop. It's the safest place, and ironically the place I did my bicycle cartwheel. Good for me in so many ways.
It's all about tons of progress.
Oh! And I had a fun time running Tuesday. I scanned the trail map into my brain, then took off from my car into the woods. About 2 miles later, I said to myself, "Self, in about 13 minutes, we should be back, and that's good, 'cuz I'm pooped."
About 12 minutes later, my sense of direction was tingling (like a spidey-sense, you know?). I seemed to be running toward the sun, and the map in my brain (which seemed fuzzy as I tried to access it) indicated I should be running away from the sun. But trails twist, etc.
Running along the bottom of a ridge, though, and then climbing another one, still toward the sun, seemed suspicious, especially with it being 19 minutes since the 2 mile point. So I turned around and walked (you betcha!) back to the last friendly sign pointing me to a road.
Good thing: my internal map was right, I had somehow taken a wrong turn. Bad thing: I have no idea where the wrong turn was, didn't see it coming or returning.
I'll be running that trail backwards after my bike ride on Saturday, just to find the turnout.
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Date: 2007-05-18 06:25 am (UTC)Be careful!
Date: 2007-05-18 10:12 am (UTC)Re: Be careful!
Date: 2007-05-18 11:20 am (UTC)At least I can trust my direction-sense, too, some. (: And the roads are pretty close, if I have to walk back (a long ways).