a little foreshadowing...

Thank you all for the wonderful words of encouragement, support, and snapping me back to reality... the mental part of injury is so hard when the physical part hurts.

So I found out that the UA warehouse only does these sales twice a year, once in winter, and once in the summer! Phew!  Otherwise, like a lot of you out there, I'd be spending way too much time and money there!  We went back saturday afternoon at around 4pm, before the closing time of 6pm, and it was all shut down with a sign on the door showing sold out.  Glad I went when I did!

Saturday I took off of running too, since my calf was still pretty tight.  I was getting ready for Jay's company's kids' xmas party, where he was going to be playing "santa". Jay's daughter found a cute necklace at a hockey tournament a few weeks ago that is a running shoe with a few beads on either side that I picked up for a few bucks. Well, as I was blow drying my hair, my necklace's clasp broke and fell.  I couldn't help but giggle... a sarcastic, devilish laugh. At that moment, seeing the running shoe fall off my neck was like hearing the words that I was injured and wouldn't be running again.  I stopped the blow dryer, went out to the living room, and lobbed the necklace at him, at this point almost in tears, telling him that the necklace breaking was a sign...  So dramatic, I know.

He came into the washroom a few minutes later to say that it definitely was foreshadowing... broken then fixed/injured then healed.  Yes, he managed to fix the necklace.

Saturday night I did a 30 min yoga for runners' video, and felt my legs feeling somewhat better.  Sunday morning I didn't go out for the scheduled 13k with the group given the way I had been feeling, but decided to go to the gym. 30 minutes of weights, followed by 3 miles on the dreadmill (much easier to stop and get off of it if needed because of pain...), then 15 minutes stretching, with a lot of the same stretches from the yoga from previous day. Feeling pretty good, and a bit happier than Friday night.

I had a 2 hour break between teaching sessions today, so I decided I'd go out for another quickie.  Got some letters together that were stamped and ready to be mailed out, and headed towards a mailbox, and kept going.  Still fairly tight in the calves, but it gets better as I warm up, so it ended up being a decent run, another 3 miles. Still a bit tender when pressing really hard on certain points of the bone, but other times not so much, so still keeping my fingers crossed that it's more muscular than bone. Still having enough time, I did another 30min yoga video, leaving me feeling pretty good.

Someone had commented to me that I should perhaps try compression socks or a wrap.  I checked into it a bit, and it seems that a lot of endurance athletes are wearing them... and I know that FrayedLaces recently posted about compression socks to aid with recovery.

I am up to trying anything that will keep me running and being active.  Anyone else try them at all? Any thoughts? I had some errands to run tonight, and while at the drug store, I checked out the adjoined health care section, and found a pair of athletic calf socks. I picked them up, wrestled a bit to get them up my leg given the size of my calves, but they're on! lol

Now that I've run 2 days in a row I will see how I feel tomorrow.  I may just do some biking tomorrow instead, and see if I can better manage the calf tightness with running 2 days in a row rather than 3.

You may have noticed a new widget on the top right-hand corner.  If you're not tired of voting with the recent US & Canadian elections, have tolerance for just one more, and feel that my blog might be worthy, go on and vote for me here on Wellsphere.com!  It's a great resource for healthy living, with access to outstanding communities such as Marathons, Triathlons, Endurance Training, etc.  I was drawn to this website for the Epilepsy community, and having the opportunity to reach out to those that may be going through similar thoughts, questions, fears associated with epilepsy or surgery, etc.  I'm not a good public speaker at all, so this is a much more comfortable way for me to feel like I can pay it forward a little, and maybe help someone.

They're doing their 1st People's HealthBlogger Awards... given the number of health related issues even in the last year with my running, it'll make me feel that it's at least been worth it! LOL Consider my blog this year as a Things to NOT do list (a fairly extensive, long, detailed, varying list)... Things to avoid... Learning from other people's mistakes... i think i'll stop now, that's enough self-deprecation for one day :)

Have a great week... can you believe that we're 10 days away from xmas, and I still haven't even purchased A gift yet?!  Yep, not even one!

Have a great weekend everyone!