I’ve been pretty quiet since IM 70.3 Princeton. There was the heel stress fracture, the neuroma in my left foot and just as I was “taking a rest” to heal up (YEAH RIGHT), I crashed my bike with a front tire blow out, the perfect off the bike PLF (parachute landing fall) that resulted in a perfectly healthy bike yet a damaged, pain ridden shoulder joint.
Sigh.
So, I keep going to Hard Bodies Boot Camp – see, I told you my goal was to improve function strength – but every class I was silently crying, FRUSTRATED, at another setback. I couldn’t lift laterally my right arm. My arm felt so weak that even push ups were a challenge. I modified, asked my coaches for an alternative and pushed through. I was doing laps one morning of no weights Thursday when Suzy caught me crying (I was fo sure that she couldn’t see in the dark, but that woman right der…SEE’S ALL). She reminded me that 2015 is GOING TO BE MY YEAR and that, right now, I needed to slow down, get checked out, heal…to speed up.
So I have been. I feel like a tree sloth but I’m doing what the doctor ordered. I’ve been doing some “fun” running…short distances, techno nekkid, just run and enjoy the moment. And then I got the opportunity to run in the Inaugural Across the Bay 10k. I couldn’t resist.
…and that was the look on my face the whole way. I did a 2:1 interval uphill to the apex of the bridge (approx. 3 miles) and then I ran – okay – jogged the rest of the way to the finish. Happy. Smiling. Pain Free.
JOY!
The Diva is getting her MOJO back!