Ice = Bad

Last night was kinda hard. Jess & Caleb came over and went running with Boz. i stayed at home, like a good little girl. From what i heard, it sounds like they did a great job as per usual ;o). I'm hoping one of them will post on how it went.

I was told i need to ice my knee every night. Do you have any idea how hard that is? Well first, our ice pack thing broke a while back and we never replaced it; I'll have to pick one up today. In the mean time I used a bag of frozen mixed berries. I'm not even sure where they came from. I'm assuming we bought it as it was in our freezer but I never knew they were there. Boz must be holding out on me.

Anyway, i was laying on the couch with my legs on Boz's lap, when I put the berries on my knee. First i was doing it over my pants (which was fine!) but was told i needed it put in directly on it. HUMPH! just because he's been a coach for all these years, he thinks he's the expert. ....okay, maybe he is ;o)

So I rolled up my pant leg and put the bag back on my knee. OMG was that cold! I literally jumped off of Boz and the couch. I don't know who was more shocked/scared, me or Boz. He could have broken something with the way I was moving. It was horrible. I think the pain of the ice hurt more than my knee. I was actually laying there with tears streaming down my face. I'm such a wimp. I only hope I don't have to have it iced when I'm at PT; THAT could be hugely embarrassing.

Boz wanted me to do 10 minutes on, 20 minutes off for an hour. So after the first 10 minutes i snuck off and went to bed. ;o) Hee hee. I'm terrible.

Here's hoping tonight is a little better!

P.T. Outcome

If you read my other site, there's no need to read this. It's the same thing I posted over there. But since I want to keep all running stuff together, and use this as a journal, I needed to post it here as well.

So I survived my fist session. I was real impressed with the therapist and look forward to going back on Wednesday.

Things we found out today:
* i have tiny knee caps (awww...how cute!)
* i have surprisingly (to her!) weak hips
* how wonderful my husband is - he offered to take over a lot at home in order to help my knees
* my groin pull (didn't know girls had groins b/f this!) is directly related to my bad knee. I figured that.
* i have to ice my knee every night and get a special brace (Forest Gump type?? thankfully not!)
* THE KILLER - I have to stop running. FOR NOW. just until the therapy is over, she'll tell me when I can start back up.
* i can no longer do any lower body exercises, no lunges, no squats... :o(


This is going to be a tough month. I'm sure most would love to be told not to work out. It's killing me. But in the long run, this will help me to run marathons again! Though i may just stick to half marathons.

New Link

Alright everyone, i just added a new link to the sidebar ~ Dress the Runner. This is one of the most useful tools...for me at least. If you ever wonder what you should wear for your run, this will tell you! Check it out.