#@!% #@!% #@!% - My leg fraking hurts and other running tragedies

Okay, it will be exactly a year (and maybe some change) since I sprung my SI joint come this February.  I would like to tell you that I am able to run again, but of course, I keep injuring that leg and I'm quite tired of that and to quote my favorite BSG character (Starbuck) - frak, frak, frak!!! I just started running again at the beginning of December and during a sprint with the trainer, I went down, landing square on my big tuckus in the process.  He was behind me when it happened and said it looked like someone shot my leg.  I can only guess it looked kinda odd and probably fairly funny to observers :)

I knew on the first step that something wasn't at all right.  Of course I felt it something like this... right step (oh no...), left step (BAM, somethings wrong in the caliber of did I just rupture my Achilles and I can't stop fast enough), right step, and I was sitting on the ground trying not to cry.  I personally think its something unstable behind my knee, but I refuse to go see my sports meds doctor, cuz he'll try and shoot it full of cortisone (I'm way allergic and he doesn't believe me...) or he will tell me not to run.  I know, FAT girl running doesn't make sense to most but they are not, and I repeat NOT going to stop me from moving.

God gave me two working legs, I will figure out a way to use them.  So instead of completely getting upset, and drowning my anger and frustration in little mini red velvet cupcakes (they are like crack to a food addict, I <3 them), I'm taking a more sane approach.  I have all these great cardio workouts that my old boxing instructor/trainer II made for me.  Instead of completely losing it because I still can't run, I am going to take those workouts, some of which I have put on my blog, and redo 2010.  We shall see how fast that goes.

So, since I can't run STILL, my warm up before training is a 2.0 incline at 3.5 with 2-10lb dumbbells in hand.  That was extremely hard for me in 2010, and isn't really easy for now but I will repeat that at least for January.  More to follow, stay tuned.

Variation of my track workouts - 2010

I am posting all my different track workouts that an old trainer made for me.  I have many handwritten variations of these plans.  I wish I had dated them so I could appreciate the progression I made.  Remembering that for next time will be important.  In the interim, I need to contain them some where so I can stop misplacing them.  I have to say every day older I get, I think a few more brain cells die.  Especially those used to remember where stuff is.  I misplace things all the time.  I really need to kick the diet soda habit as Aspertame is actually probably killing even more cells then time ever could.

To give you some idea of where I was health wise when doing these various track workouts, I was between 214-230lbs.  I love to run and both my former trainer/boxing instructor who made these for me, and my current trainer knew this and always encouraged me to keep doing it because it motivates me to move.  Anyone that is over their ideal weight that can get up and move should.  You need to do it at the level you are comfortable with that is safe and healthy for you. 

I'm pretty much an overachiever. That's why being overweight has broken my heart so many times.  I figure, if it doesn't absolutely put my life in jeapordy, no one can convince not to run or workout hard, or train like the athlete my head thinks I am.  That's just how I roll.  I'm not a thrill junkie and I definitely don't want an adrenaline rush.  But I hate to fail.  And being overweight has been a failure to me. 

People used to tell me all the time that I shouldn't be doing this or that because I was still too heavy, but I didn't listen and I almost never got hurt. Why? Because I was happy and enjoyed what I was doing.  The year I did these I was only slightly hurt a couple times with some strained muscles in my achilles and my shoulder.  This year has been so much different and I've moved much, much less and been hurt far worse.

I figure God gave me two good legs and feet and the ability to put them to use.  Why waste and take for granted what some people can only wish for, right?  Sitting on my behind all day and not moving sounds safe to some, but it was killing me far faster than running ever would.

These took me anywhere from around 30 mins - 1+ hours to complete depending on how hard I pushed myself.

Track Workout One

• Walk 1 Lap
• Run 1 lap
• 5 - 50s
• 4 - 100s
• 3 - 200s
• 1 - 400

Track Workout Two

• Walk 1 lap
• Run 1 lap
• 1 - 400
• 3 - 200s
• 4 - 100s
• 5 - 50s

Track Workout Three

• Walk 1 lap
• Run 1 lap
• 5 - 100s
• 1 - 400
• 5 - 100s
• 1 - 400

Track Workout Four

• Walk 1 lap
• Run 1 lap
• 2 - 200s
• 1 - 400
• 2 - 200s
• 1 - 400