232 Days Until the Disney Princess Half Marathon
Day three of my training -- 243 days until the half marathon -- the worst thing happened. I went out for my run at 5:30 in the morning, and it started off pretty great. I got the run portion out of the way and began walking the remaining 30 minutes. If you knew me personally, you would know I am clumsy (a bit of an understatement really because I am always running into things, tripping, dropping stuff, falling down stairs, etc.) and this would be no different but with much worse results than my normal bumps and bruises. About 20 minutes into my workout I was looking down at my phone to see both the best route home and the amount of time I had left. The sidewalks in our neighborhood, for some ridiculous reason, have places where some of the cement has pushed 4-6 inches out of the ground. I wasn't paying attention to that and, of course, I fell.
I thought this was the worst of it, really. I had a small abrasion on my other hand but it didn't even bleed. I got home and saw I scraped up my knee pretty bad, but all and all I was fine. Then the next day came and my back started hurting a little. Like an idiot, I moved some heavy boxes in the file room at work. The next day I was feeling even worse. Then Friday came. I was in tears at my desk. I couldn't walk, I couldn't stand, I couldn't sit. Everything hurt. I left and went to the doctor's office and my doctor told me I actually sprained my back. She gave me some muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatory pills (and a shot). She said there would be no running for at least two weeks, possibly even six, but nothing if I was still in pain.
That was a week ago. I have spent most of the last week laying in my bed, barely able to walk to the bathroom. I was off work Saturday and Sunday and then Monday and Tuesday for the fourth of July holiday. I went to work on Wednesday but had to call off Thursday. The pain was too much. I couldn't handle sitting for 9 hours. I went back to work Friday but was dead by the end of the day. I am currently typing this from my bed because I strained myself too much by brushing my dog earlier.
I am ready to get back to running mentally. I think this experience has made me think twice about skipping any scheduled runs. I hate the fact that I can barely even walk! I want to run while I can. I want to be better already. I'm not stupid enough to try and start running before I have healed though because I don't want to make things worse and maybe even a permanent problem. I am waiting. I am giving my back an entire 7 more days to right itself. It does feel BETTER, just not normal.
My friend Matt said that this sort of thing always seems to happen to people in the beginning. Another friend was telling me about someone she knows who fell a week before the Chicago Marathon and broke his arm. Thank goodness this happened now and not the week before the Princess. I would be devastated.
I've made some notes on my training plan and am going to stick to more even surfaces for now. I'm going to start with just the treadmill at the gym for now and then move to the track at The Pettit Center once a week. When I feel more comfortable I am going to add in the Hank Aaron Trail by my house for longer runs and then I plan to run in a (probably not MY) neighborhood once a week to make sure I'm hitting all the training surfaces. I know I'm overthinking it. I overthink everything. But I don't plan to get derailed again and the best way to achieve that is to think about how to avoid the problem before there is a problem.
I guess that's all for now as an update on my journey to the Princess Half Marathon. I will probably not update anything until I've gotten back to running (first scheduled run is next Sunday!!). Thanks for reading!!
I thought this was the worst of it, really. I had a small abrasion on my other hand but it didn't even bleed. I got home and saw I scraped up my knee pretty bad, but all and all I was fine. Then the next day came and my back started hurting a little. Like an idiot, I moved some heavy boxes in the file room at work. The next day I was feeling even worse. Then Friday came. I was in tears at my desk. I couldn't walk, I couldn't stand, I couldn't sit. Everything hurt. I left and went to the doctor's office and my doctor told me I actually sprained my back. She gave me some muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatory pills (and a shot). She said there would be no running for at least two weeks, possibly even six, but nothing if I was still in pain.
That was a week ago. I have spent most of the last week laying in my bed, barely able to walk to the bathroom. I was off work Saturday and Sunday and then Monday and Tuesday for the fourth of July holiday. I went to work on Wednesday but had to call off Thursday. The pain was too much. I couldn't handle sitting for 9 hours. I went back to work Friday but was dead by the end of the day. I am currently typing this from my bed because I strained myself too much by brushing my dog earlier.
I am ready to get back to running mentally. I think this experience has made me think twice about skipping any scheduled runs. I hate the fact that I can barely even walk! I want to run while I can. I want to be better already. I'm not stupid enough to try and start running before I have healed though because I don't want to make things worse and maybe even a permanent problem. I am waiting. I am giving my back an entire 7 more days to right itself. It does feel BETTER, just not normal.
My friend Matt said that this sort of thing always seems to happen to people in the beginning. Another friend was telling me about someone she knows who fell a week before the Chicago Marathon and broke his arm. Thank goodness this happened now and not the week before the Princess. I would be devastated.
I've made some notes on my training plan and am going to stick to more even surfaces for now. I'm going to start with just the treadmill at the gym for now and then move to the track at The Pettit Center once a week. When I feel more comfortable I am going to add in the Hank Aaron Trail by my house for longer runs and then I plan to run in a (probably not MY) neighborhood once a week to make sure I'm hitting all the training surfaces. I know I'm overthinking it. I overthink everything. But I don't plan to get derailed again and the best way to achieve that is to think about how to avoid the problem before there is a problem.
I guess that's all for now as an update on my journey to the Princess Half Marathon. I will probably not update anything until I've gotten back to running (first scheduled run is next Sunday!!). Thanks for reading!!
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