Wow! Where has the time gone. Apparently there are only 4 and a half weeks left of this semester?! What in the world. Also, we had a snow day yesterday and classes were actually cancelled for the entire day. Probably the best text I have ever woken up to. I had such a wonderful weekend, though I clocked few hours of sleep. I woke up at 6 for swim practice, saw the text, and went right back to sleep until 9:30. Score!
This semester has been the most stressful thus far. I didn't think it would be too difficult, I mean I LOVE math and science, so taking 2 math classes and a science class won't be bad. Wrong. The education math classes are much different than any other math class I have taken. I am actually in the last of the 3 required classes this semester, so as long as I get a C-... which should happen, I will be able to start taking the upper level math courses! Score. I also am in trig, I defiintely forgot how much I hated that class in high school. Most of the time I am just sitting in class, thinking, "What the hell?" But, it will all help me in the end, just a bit of a struggle right now.
On the training side of things, I AM RUNNING AGAIN. PRAISE THE LORD. I started running last Saturday, and by running, I mean walking with a few little short jogs thrown in. I smiled the biggest i have smiled in a long time during that first 1 minute segment of jogging. Man, did I miss that feeling. I actually had been running on the treadmill so I could control my pace and not push anything too hard. Today I got to run outside though for the first time. It was such an amazing feeling. I forgot that I was running a few times and looked down at my watch and the three minute segments were over in what felt like 30 seconds. [Let's just hope it continues to feel that way for the rest of the season, especially track work and long runs.... somebody please remind me that I said this...]
I am still continuing to enjoy every minute (sort of) of every workout. It is such a wonderful gift to have legs that can kick, bike and run and arms to pull and lift. Just remembering to go slow and listen to my body, I want to do this for a very long time.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
A Little Rant...
Clearly I have not been posting frequently this past month or so. Partly because this semester has been kicking my butt and also that I have been trying to find other things to occupy my time than training and obsessing over triathlon.
As I mentioned before, I have been struggling with an injury, and this injury is a little more serious than we had originally thought. I have a compression side femoral neck stress fracture. I have been really down about it lately. I don't want to drag out the details of said injury, but let's just say this injury isn't quite doing what we expected of it and has caused more nights of tears than I can count. We had a little potential surgery scare, but we are officially out of the woods on that one.
So, now that that's out of the way... a little positivity for your Sunday morning reading pleasure.
As an athlete with an injury, no matter what sport, being injured sucks. It just sucks. There is no other way to put it. I don't know about you, but when I am injured the last thing that I want to do is associate myself with other people that are doing what I want to be doing so badly, purely out of jealousy. For me, this is running and training for the upcoming season. However, for the majority of us, many of our friends are athletes who are going to continue to live their life (train) even while you are injured.
So now you're stuck, you don't really want to talk about triathlon (or sport that applies) and then you realize that this is like a HUGE commonality between you and friends. Of course you have those friends who are in your classes, coworkers, etc., but the people you've spent the majority of your time with are your training buddies and your training buddies are off training while you hobble around campus on crutches or cry in your room or lay on your bed watching hours of One Tree Hill on Netflix<< yes that happens!
You suddenly have all this free time on the weekends when you are used to going out for long rides/runs. Though you are only actually outside training for a few hours, you realize how large of a chunk of time it is. You have to wake up early, find something to eat and time it perfectly so you aren't sick when you are training but you have enough energy to make it through the session, get home cool down/get warm, stretch, do some 10 minute core, shower, eat, and by the time all is said and done, your 2 hour bike ride has essentially become a 4-5 hour event.
To battle this issue I have been facing with "too much free time" I have discovered that I enjoy a few other things outside of triathlon. For one, I have time to clean my room on the weekends. Like actually clean it, that is so nice. I also have found myself really enjoying music. Not just listening, but like looking online and finding music and bands, old or new. I often just scroll through iTunes "Top 100" so I can find a few new beats to throw on my iPod that I can listen to while I run. Now I actually go through and take the time to search new music. I enjoy it so much and it is something else to put time and energy into while healing up that nasty hip of mine. I also really enjoy sleep a lot. I have been trying to bank 8 hours of sleep a night and am doing a pretty good job with it. I feel lazy for laying around and actually sleeping, but I know my body needs this rest.
So, I guess what I am trying to say is that injuries suck, but we have all been there. Even the best athletes in our sports have suffered potentially career threatening injuries. It is all about the mindset and what you choose to do with this "layoff". I fully believe that there is a period of mourning that coincides with injuries, but it's important to get yourself up and moving. Find something else you like to do that doesn't involve much moving around so you don't reinjure yourself. But find something to pass the time, I am sure I will be up and running before I know it.
As I mentioned before, I have been struggling with an injury, and this injury is a little more serious than we had originally thought. I have a compression side femoral neck stress fracture. I have been really down about it lately. I don't want to drag out the details of said injury, but let's just say this injury isn't quite doing what we expected of it and has caused more nights of tears than I can count. We had a little potential surgery scare, but we are officially out of the woods on that one.
So, now that that's out of the way... a little positivity for your Sunday morning reading pleasure.
So now you're stuck, you don't really want to talk about triathlon (or sport that applies) and then you realize that this is like a HUGE commonality between you and friends. Of course you have those friends who are in your classes, coworkers, etc., but the people you've spent the majority of your time with are your training buddies and your training buddies are off training while you hobble around campus on crutches or cry in your room or lay on your bed watching hours of One Tree Hill on Netflix<< yes that happens!
To battle this issue I have been facing with "too much free time" I have discovered that I enjoy a few other things outside of triathlon. For one, I have time to clean my room on the weekends. Like actually clean it, that is so nice. I also have found myself really enjoying music. Not just listening, but like looking online and finding music and bands, old or new. I often just scroll through iTunes "Top 100" so I can find a few new beats to throw on my iPod that I can listen to while I run. Now I actually go through and take the time to search new music. I enjoy it so much and it is something else to put time and energy into while healing up that nasty hip of mine. I also really enjoy sleep a lot. I have been trying to bank 8 hours of sleep a night and am doing a pretty good job with it. I feel lazy for laying around and actually sleeping, but I know my body needs this rest.
So, I guess what I am trying to say is that injuries suck, but we have all been there. Even the best athletes in our sports have suffered potentially career threatening injuries. It is all about the mindset and what you choose to do with this "layoff". I fully believe that there is a period of mourning that coincides with injuries, but it's important to get yourself up and moving. Find something else you like to do that doesn't involve much moving around so you don't reinjure yourself. But find something to pass the time, I am sure I will be up and running before I know it.
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