Thank you to Marci and Christy for solving our 'what's for dinner' dilemma Friday night! I was one of the lucky early bird winners of Reece's Run - a virtual race held on Reece's 4th birthday to raise money for Juvenile Arthritis. We headed to The Keg for an early dinner -- steak with a lobster something (lol!), garlic mashed potatoes, and the mushrooms that Jay wouldn't eat. Yum! Luckily it didn't cause my to sink to the bottom on my swim later that evening. I took a pic of him, post-dinner, completely stuffed, but wouldn't let me post it. booo- I've been running! Yesterday, I headed out for day 1 of the return from injury program I will follow (same program that I used from my first bout of stress fractures). This time, however, I will be modifying it... (read: not running back to back days, and not rebuilding to 5 days per week... will also adjust the schedule so that I will have running days that land on our clinic or group ride days so that I can get the Bricks in.)
- Swimming has been going swimmingly! When I was injured last year and was told to do some running in the pool, I was bummed. Tried it, got bored, so I tried to swim a lap. Interesting how a length there and back winded me more than running, which is really not saying much! Ok, so this was much harder than I thought it would be. Winter time I pretty much stopped swimming -- so hard to leave the pool in the cold darkness of winter, below freezing temps, still wet. Then this time with my injuries, once again, I was reminded that 50 meters in the pool literally took my breath away. Little by little I've been pushing myself, taking shorter breaks in between laps. Friday night, another girl from the tri clinic and I met up, she challenged us to 100m non-stop. Last night I got to 200 meters without a break, and I did this twice! I know this may not seem like anything to a lot of you, especially the triathletes out there, but to me this is huge!
- I can't wait for tomorrow! 1 more sleep! I mentioned a few posts ago about an ultimate blogger meet-up. Sorry if this misled a few people... it's not an 'event' that I was planning per-se, although it would be so fun to meet all of you! Been communicating with another runner/blogger/now friend first through a site called Runner+, then via email, then Skype. Well, Damian has been fortunate enough to be traveling around the world (from Australia), and planned a pit-stop in Toronto to visit the city, and meet moi! I'm so so excited! By the way, hello 'Damian's dad' (and mum) who has apparently stopped by to read my blog! :) I'll be meeting him at the airport tomorrow night, and likely heading to Niagara Falls on Friday... He's already been practicing his 'eh'.
Happy Canada Day (tomorrow) for all my fellow Canadians, and happy 4th to all my US friends if I don't post again until after that!
25 comments:
Great news on the running front, the swimming is going to help all round as well!
Have a great runner meet up!
That's great to hear that you were able to run! Enjoy your meet up!
Sounds like things are going well with both the running and swimming . . . way to get through this injury. Have a great long weekend!
I'm glad to hear that you are back at the running thing. But all of this tri training that you're doing sounds as if you really love it! Keep up the awesome work.
Have fun at your meetup.
That is great about the running! Sounds like you have a good plan.
Have fun with the meetup! and have a great week.
You must be SO stoked to be running again! Great to see you back on the road (on two feet... as opposed to just wheels). :)
Have a great visit with Damian!
Have fun at the blogger meet up. I am jealous! Sounds like you are getting back on your feet nicely.
Happy Canada Day to you as well Mel! Enjoy your meetup.
What exactly do people do on Canada Day, sistre? Sit around being blandly inoffensive? And how is that different from what you 'nucks do every other day of the year?
KIDDING, sister!1! Some of my favorite people are either comatose or Canadian, I can't tell which!
Glad to hear you're running again! Good luck.
I wonder if it would be okay for me to celebrate "Canada Day". Why? Well, my maiden name is Canada!!!
Enjoy your celebration. ;)
Yay for swimming! Happy Canada Day. Hmmm, don't believe I have ever said that before. To anyone. Ever. I must wiki it now...
yay for running!!!
Yay for starting running and having a good swim!
Have a fun meet up!
Happy for you to be able to run again! I can only wait until Thursday and take it from there...in the meantime....bike, swim, bike, swim......ect!
Congrats on all the tri training!
aww yeah running and yeah wonderful bloggie meet up
Have a great weekend! I'm so thrilled for you that the running is happening for ya again!
I *totally* get the accomplishment of being able to swim 200 without a break *twice*
Well done!
Nice job on the swimming! You have to be happy about that for sure. Have a Happy Canada Day and enjoy it.
Building up muscles in the legs from the cycling will help the running!!!
Glad that you are back running. That is really good news. Just don't rush it. It will come back naturally.
That dinner looks yummy, glad you finally got to enjoy it!
Boy, we ARE shadowing eachother! I started running last week! I hope yours is going like mine, slow and steady- and isn't it great when you start doing laps w/no recoveries! I soooo love that.
Thanks for your thoughts and comments- they mean an awful lot. :)
Yippee!!! You are running again. Balancing your workouts with swimming and biking will definitely help. Enjoy the bogger meetup...that is SO cool!
Happy Canada Day!
I'm actually flying to Canada tomorrow night for vacation, but will be in Vancouver and Whistler. I can't wait! I think of swimming 200m like running for 30 minutes non-stop. It takes a while to build up that initial base, but once you get to that point, it gets a lot easier. Have fun meeting Damian in person.
I'm so glad to hear you are cleared for running again, great job on all your tri training so far!
happy canada day! i'm especially glad the return-to-running is going well!!
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