Ariel484
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Princess Half Marathon Weekend Training
Week 2 (1/23 - 1/29): 16 miles planned, 6 miles completed
MO: lifting/yoga
TU: 3-mile run
WE: 3-mile run
TH: lifting
FR: 4-mile run/yoga (rest day taken)
SA: 6-mile run (rest day taken)
SU: rest (yoga)
Just 1 month until the Princess Half Marathon!
I am SO excited for this weekend! I feel like my last 2 runDisney race weekends were pretty pressure-filled - Wine & Dine HAD to go well because if it did, I’d feel better about Dopey. Dopey HAD to go well because there was a marathon at the end and I didn’t want to die. I think the only things I’m worried about for Princess are surviving the expo and that my friends coming with me (we’ll call them GSF1 and GSF2 - for “Grad School Friend 1 & 2” since that is where we met) have fun and don’t think I am totally insane by the end of the trip, since I am the #1 Disney freak. So far they seem excited about the trip and impressed by my planning knowledge, so I think we’re off to a good start.
I just need our Magic Bands to come (hopefully some time this week!) and I think we’ll be all set!
So...week 2 obviously did not go as planned.
Monday was fine. Lifting and yoga were good! Mr. A was feeling a little under the weather today, and when he gets sick it's only a matter of time before I am, too!
I woke up on Tuesday feeling a little throat and ear pain - the run was good, but I basically hit the wall that evening and was in bed by 9:30, which is crazy early for me.
Wednesday was more of the same - run was fine, throat and ear pain still there, another early bedtime. But another issue I'd noticed last week was creeping up again - hip pain. Specifically on my left side, on the front - right where my leg and pelvis meet (hip flexor?). It felt sore on a Tuesday and pretty much all day on Wednesday. Maybe I should have taken an extra week off after the marathon? I had the bright idea to Google this hip pain and Dr. Google is basically making it sound like I need a hip replacement...
Seriously, the first possibility that came up was a stress fracture! This definitely feels like a muscle strain of some kind, so I think I'll go ahead and not jump to the worst-case scenario...sigh.
On Thursday I still felt like a cold was coming. I did lift and go to work, which was fine. Another early bedtime, and I decided that in order to hopefully stop the sick feeling and hip pain that I should take Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. Thankfully the bug seemed to be gone for good by Friday evening (for both of us it felt like we were in the beginning stages of a cold for 2-3 days, but it never actually morphed into a full-blown cold...weird).
The hip pain is mostly gone right now...but that is something I will definitely be keeping an eye on going forward. At this point I'm going to see how things go tomorrow, and if it's still bugging me I'll take the rest of the week off from running, I think. I'd rather rest more and have this go away for good than try to run through it and make it worse.
I'm trying to stretch it more (I went to yoga today - which was mostly good, I did *feel* the hip a couple of times. I got some input from my yoga teacher on this and she gave me some stretches to do that will hopefully help) and will be shifting my run days to hopefully rest it a little more. Boo! Just cooperate, body!!
Anyway...have a good week, all!
Continued...
Week 2 (1/23 - 1/29): 16 miles planned, 6 miles completed
MO: lifting/yoga
TU: 3-mile run
WE: 3-mile run
TH: lifting
FR: 4-mile run/yoga (rest day taken)
SA: 6-mile run (rest day taken)
SU: rest (yoga)
Just 1 month until the Princess Half Marathon!
I am SO excited for this weekend! I feel like my last 2 runDisney race weekends were pretty pressure-filled - Wine & Dine HAD to go well because if it did, I’d feel better about Dopey. Dopey HAD to go well because there was a marathon at the end and I didn’t want to die. I think the only things I’m worried about for Princess are surviving the expo and that my friends coming with me (we’ll call them GSF1 and GSF2 - for “Grad School Friend 1 & 2” since that is where we met) have fun and don’t think I am totally insane by the end of the trip, since I am the #1 Disney freak. So far they seem excited about the trip and impressed by my planning knowledge, so I think we’re off to a good start.
I just need our Magic Bands to come (hopefully some time this week!) and I think we’ll be all set!So...week 2 obviously did not go as planned.
Monday was fine. Lifting and yoga were good! Mr. A was feeling a little under the weather today, and when he gets sick it's only a matter of time before I am, too!
I woke up on Tuesday feeling a little throat and ear pain - the run was good, but I basically hit the wall that evening and was in bed by 9:30, which is crazy early for me.Wednesday was more of the same - run was fine, throat and ear pain still there, another early bedtime. But another issue I'd noticed last week was creeping up again - hip pain.
Specifically on my left side, on the front - right where my leg and pelvis meet (hip flexor?). It felt sore on a Tuesday and pretty much all day on Wednesday. Maybe I should have taken an extra week off after the marathon? I had the bright idea to Google this hip pain and Dr. Google is basically making it sound like I need a hip replacement... Seriously, the first possibility that came up was a stress fracture! This definitely feels like a muscle strain of some kind, so I think I'll go ahead and not jump to the worst-case scenario...sigh.On Thursday I still felt like a cold was coming. I did lift and go to work, which was fine. Another early bedtime, and I decided that in order to hopefully stop the sick feeling and hip pain that I should take Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. Thankfully the bug seemed to be gone for good by Friday evening (for both of us it felt like we were in the beginning stages of a cold for 2-3 days, but it never actually morphed into a full-blown cold...weird).
The hip pain is mostly gone right now...but that is something I will definitely be keeping an eye on going forward. At this point I'm going to see how things go tomorrow, and if it's still bugging me I'll take the rest of the week off from running, I think. I'd rather rest more and have this go away for good than try to run through it and make it worse.
I'm trying to stretch it more (I went to yoga today - which was mostly good, I did *feel* the hip a couple of times. I got some input from my yoga teacher on this and she gave me some stretches to do that will hopefully help) and will be shifting my run days to hopefully rest it a little more. Boo! Just cooperate, body!!Anyway...have a good week, all!
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It's definitely a pain I get when bringing my leg forward. Bleh!
