I’m going under the knife, or the arthroscope to be more exact. Lovely. Unfortunately the fine doc is all booked up in July so no knife until mid-August. My stitches will come out 8 full months after I first got hurt. Uncool. Therefore no training for anything really unless you count physical therapy as “training” for the surgery.
With an estimate of “return to sports” in 3-6 weeks, this officially means no Disney Half Marathon in January because 3 months is not enough time to train when you’ve been not running for the past 8 months. BUMMER.
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Orthopedist visit on Thursday. We will then find out if I can be training for SOMETHING, ANYTHING or what in the world is going on with my knee. Stupid knee.
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I’ve had the law laid down with my physical therapy - no running, no elliptical, no swimming, no nada. Pretty much the only thing I can really do is bike so I’ve been doing a lot of that when not doing PT exercises. So yeah, going nowhere fast…..
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Lame week. Two days out for a wedding + One day out for an engagement party + One day out for a Mets game = not a lot of exercising.
The week:
DDR 1hr10min
Run/Walk 2.33mi 29min
Upper body weights 30min
softball 2h
Run/Walk 3.23mi 46min
Had my first PT appointment today. Got a bunch of exercises to do twice a day. So now not only is my knee infringing on my workout life, it is also going to infringe on my SLEEP for the next 8 weeks because I have to wake up early to do my exercises so I can do them 2x a day. Fun fun fun. I’m sure they are all working, but one of the exercises especially is a KILLER. I can really feel it working the knee. So it goes…
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quick and dirty report:
elliptical 25min
volleyball 1h45min
softball practice 1h30min
run 2.15miles 26 min
lower body weights 30min
bike 6.3miles 25min
upper body weights 35min
10min walk 0.8miles
47min run/walk 3.5miles
1hr 7min DDR
Orthopedist appt. tomorrow….uh-oh!
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Had the MRI on Tuesday. It went ok, as ok as MRI’s can possibly go. I am not a doctor, but I sometimes play one on tv. I started reading up on MRI scans and what they are supposed to look like and I suspect a horizontal tear in the anterior meniscus. Yeah. I’m not sure if that’s a proper way to say it, but that’s what I think it is. Basically what I learned by reading lots of scans and medical school powerpoint lessons online, is that when you take an MRI in the sagittal plane (that is from the side), the meniscus is supposed to look like a bow-tie, or like two triangles pointing into each other. Well, in one slide I can definitely see that the “triangle” isn’t so much a triangle like other slices and has some white space in between. Now I just have to wait until the 21st to confirm my diagnosis!
It can’t come too soon though. My knee definitely hurt a lot more this week. It hurt a lot after volleyball. And I went for a 2 mile run yesterday and as soon as I took off the knee brace, it hurt a ton to even put any weight on my leg. (Yes, bad me, I know.) I sat for awhile and then when I could walk again, busted out the ice pack.
Maybe running is bad for my leg, but I have been trying to “run” at least two miles, twice a week. I lost a ton of running fitness from the 8 weeks off. I’m potentially facing another 3-4 weeks off soon, so I am going to try to get back some and keep some of whatever fitness is left.
This past week:
Volleyball playoffs (woo hoo! FINALS tomorrow!)
Bike - 6.21 miles
Lower body weights
Run/walk - 3.42 miles and 2.5 miles
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Today started volleyball playoffs. Allow me to set the scene: (haha, pun not intended with “setting” the scene but I’ll take it)
Game #1, 5:30pm, #1 seed (that would be my team) vs. #4 seed
Game #2 immediately following, #2 seed (also known as our ARCH NEMESIS BOO HISS) vs. #3 seed
All games are best of five, rally scoring, 25 points is a win, but you must win by two.
Game #1 begins.
We handily win the first game. We’re playing good and everything is fine. The second game we lose…pretty badly. Uh-oh. Some people on my team started to stress out. But then, we lose the third game too! And now LOTS of my team is stressed out. Between the 3rd and 4th games I flitted around giving the “Back to Basics” pep talk. I mean we easily beat this team all year. They were 20-something games behind us after the regular season. One of the guys also noted that they were not blocking, therefore we shouldn’t be killing ourselves with hard hits, just dink it over the front line and if they would start blocking then we’d revisit this strategy. Well, we came back and won the 4th game. Now it is 2 games to 2 games. Winner of the 5th game take all. Meanwhile, the #2 seed team was in charge of having 3 people present to do the line judging. They were huddled whispering quietly. I’m sure they were discussing how much they’d love us to lose. The 5th game starts…we’re losing by about 4 points in the beginning. However this time we were able to turn it around and stay up by at least 2 for most of the way. We win. Hooray, hoorah we live to see another day - the FINALS.
Now it’s time for the second game to start. Most of us stayed to watch to see who we’d be up against next week. Immediately the #3 seed wins the first game. During this game, the #2 team starts to fall apart a bit. There’s a lot of bickering. Clearly that is not good. They did regroup in the second game and were winning 16-5…UNTIL…it all started to fall apart for them again, and the #3 seed had a come from behind 26-24 win. Unbelievable. The third game starts much like the second with the #2 seed up for a good part of the game. The #3 team ties it up in the 20s and eventually win again with a score of 26-24. Who would’ve ever thought it?
Besides the bickering between the #2 team members, there were a few other things that did them in. One is that they were not blocking at the net. They ALWAYS block when we play them. Not this time. Also, some of the guys can kill the ball and by that I mean hit it very hard. They weren’t doing that either. It seems the only time they do that is against us. Whatever though. I think we were all pretty relieved that the #3 team pulled it out. We’ll have a pretty competitive finals, but I am waaaay more confident in our chances against the #3 team than I would’ve been against the #2 team. It was a crazy night and I’m glad we came out on the winning end of it.
The ice is now in full effect though. A frozen water bottle for my heel and my lovely plantar fascitis and an ice pack on my busted knee because it is killing me right about now. MRI tomorrow though……oh boy.
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Where I’ve been: Was around, then away for 8 days in lovely Florida then back. Hence no updates for some time.
The bad news: Went swimming two weeks ago and felt something moving around in my knee. Off to the orthopedist. Orthopedist suspects torn cartilage. Lovely. MRI this week, another appointment next week, and it seems I am on a crash course for a date with the hospital. This means I definitely won’t be hitting 700 miles this year. I won’t be running some of the races I wanted to. I’ll probably be out at least the first month of softball. I will, on the bright side, get to finish out the volleyball season.
The things I did in this time include: DDR, volleyball, walking, running, teeny tiny bit of swimming, lots on the elliptical, lots on the bike, upper & lower body weights.
Where things stand with the running mileage
Miles for March (total): 11.19
Miles for April so far: 5.95
Miles total this year: 63.5
Miles to 700: 636.5
Where some other mileage things stand
Biking miles for the year: 60.61
Swimming miles for the year: 2.52
Rowing miles for the year: 5.53
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The highlight this week? A 1 mile slooooooow run. The knee was good, not great, but good. The worst was running on slanted pavement. Slanted pavement = bad knee so I had to find some flat ground to run on. Then it was better.
Walking
Outdoors = 1.05 miles
Treadmill 2x = 1.6 miles, 0.65 miles
“Running”
1 MILE.
Finally. It’s only been about 7 weeks since I’ve been able to do this!
Total Miles this week: 4.3 miles
Total miles for March: 9.19 miles
Total miles this year: 55.55 miles
Miles to go to 700: 591.26
Other workouts this week in no particular order
2hr vb
15min bike / 3.87miles
30min lower body weights
50min upper body weights
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Well guess what…..I can walk again. Started out on the treadmill, no incline, at a fairly slow 4mph and all was good. Went out again today outdoors and walked 3.34 miles. So, fingers crossed the knee feels good tomorrow, I can continue walking during the week, and then maybe next week start running a bit again. Woo hoo!
Walking
Treadmill - 25 minutes - 1.55 miles
Outdoors - 55 minutes - 3.34 miles
Total Miles this week: 4.89 miles
Total miles for March: 4.89 miles
Total miles this year: 51.25 miles
Miles to go to 700: 599.43!
Other workouts for the week:
2hr volleyball
55min bike / 14.05 miles
30min elliptical
35min upper body weights
Stay well knee, stay well
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