I know…it’s been crickets here lately….I got hit with a triple whammy and haven’t really worked out in WEEKS, seriously, weeks. So I have had nothing to talk about =( this blog may need to branch out into other parts of my life.

I not only am dealing with an overuse knee injury that will take who knows how long to heal but a pulled hamstring and a killer summer cold. The only good thing I can say about this all happening at once is that I can focus on getting well all at once.

I am still (foolishly) hopeful that I will still be able to race a half ironman on September 11.

So what have I done with all of my spare time? well my DVR is empty and I have been focusing a lot on work. Evidence of the things I have been learning about:
What is something new that you have learned?

I am worried that I might have a mid season knee injury, again. This morning while trying to get 6 miles in on the treadmill my left knee had stabbing pain behind the knee cap. Last summer I had similar pain in my right knee and was sidelined for the second half of the season. I am very worried that it’s happening again. So now I sit in a hotel room in San Diego, hoping that the pain just goes away….

For a little over a week now my right quad has been hurting me, nothing terrible but it was a new pain so I have been keeping tabs on it. It only hurt a bit after my race on Sunday so I wasn’t worried at all about it, but last night it started hurting worse and I woke up this morning with it still feeling bad. I decided to push my brick back until tomorrow, and I will only do that if it feels better. I am so worried about being injured, so many people are injured right now, so many bloggers are taking forced time off of running, I really want to be careful and not make things worse. I did go to the gym this morning to try to go for an easy run but my leg was hurting and I was feeling crappy anyway so I only made it about 3 miles before quitting. I went home, iced my leg and wrapped it in an ace bandage for the rest of the day.

I am going to try to do everything I can to help this leg heal quickly. Hopefully Taking a couple days off will do the trick and I can run my planned 22 miles this weekend.

I recently started reading a new blog called Carrots N Cake, I was originally attracted to the blog because she frequently posts about her adorable pug. I am a little obsessed with pugs, Mr. Winston thinks that’s only natural.
But she has some other great posts too, yesterday she wrote about training for a marathon and gaining weight. It was exactly what I needed to read. I haven’t been gaining weight, but I sure as heck haven’t lost any! It’s so easy to think I can eat whatever I want because I am working out so much, people even tell me that I can. But it’s a lot easier to eat 1,000 calories than it is to burn them! On to better things as I keep my feet elevated at work. Do you think that my co workers will think I am rude?

I had to cut my tempo run short this morning because my right knee was hurting. After not running for two months this summer I am really hoping this will go away fast. I should have already learned this lesson, my right knee isn’t completely healed (one doctor told me to just learn to live with the pain) and I know it starts hurting when I don’t ice after EVERY workout. For the last week it hasn’t even occurred to me to ice after workouts. What the heck, how can I just forget to ice?!?! So now I am sitting here with ice packs on my knees hoping that the pain this morning won’t turn into anything worse.

Training plan for the weekend:

Saturday: 1.5 hours on the bike trainer, I need to pick up a good movie tonight!

Sunday: 13 mile run, just need to decided where, I am thinking trail run. One of the upsides of us not getting snow is that the trails are still dry. Although I do sometimes like running in the snow, Proof from last year:

Hope everyone has a happy Friday!