I seriously need new knees. This is not going well at all. I've been icing my right knee for days, every other waking hour and the swelling has not gone down yet. My left one's fine, thank goodness. It looks like I have a huge growth behind my knee cap.
I'm still limping about and gathering sympathy from everyone around me. I hope I don't have a meniscus tear. That would be very bad. And I have two races next month. I'm counting on being better in a week so I can start training again. I might have to resort to low impact exercises like swimming to get my cardio back up where it should be. I can't even hop on a bike and go for a ride because my knee won't bend all the way.
I feel like a huge log with all the eating I've been doing, too. I think I have a noticeable fat tire around my middle now. This sucks.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Friday, June 09, 2006
Didn't quite cut it
Okay, so I had a bad day in San Diego. My race was fairly miserable. The day started out slightly muggy, and overcast with a temperature of 65. It seemed like decent running weather but the humidity started to climb and despite the cloud cover, the start line resembled a sauna complete with steam rising from the asphault. I felt like I was in Honolulu in December.
I positioned myself in Corral 6 with my friend and we started off together at a moderate 9min/mile pace. As usual, I kept surging ahead and my friend had to call my name several times and tell me to slow down. At around mile 10, I lost him and later had to make a pitstop around mile 14. By mile 15, I started to get dizzy and lightheaded. Lack of oxygen to the brain? No. I was dehydrated. Not good.
Apparently, I didn't take enough electrolytes and my salt packet pretty much disentergrated in my shorts pocket from my sweat. And where was the water station? I had to weave on ahead until I found water. It was the longest mile I have ever walked.
In retrospect, there were mistakes I did that I could have easily prevented but I lived and I'll learn. I finished 10 min slower than my PR and that didn't sit too well with me. The good news is that I wasn't too sore nor stiff. Probably because I did more walking than I planned. My right knee did hold up with the Cho-Pat I purchased from my chiropractor last Friday. Of course, running with my knee brace for the first time on a 26.2 mile course wasn't a bright idea. Whatever. What's done is done.
Time to concentrate on the Reno-Tahoe relay and sprint tri.
I positioned myself in Corral 6 with my friend and we started off together at a moderate 9min/mile pace. As usual, I kept surging ahead and my friend had to call my name several times and tell me to slow down. At around mile 10, I lost him and later had to make a pitstop around mile 14. By mile 15, I started to get dizzy and lightheaded. Lack of oxygen to the brain? No. I was dehydrated. Not good.
Apparently, I didn't take enough electrolytes and my salt packet pretty much disentergrated in my shorts pocket from my sweat. And where was the water station? I had to weave on ahead until I found water. It was the longest mile I have ever walked.
In retrospect, there were mistakes I did that I could have easily prevented but I lived and I'll learn. I finished 10 min slower than my PR and that didn't sit too well with me. The good news is that I wasn't too sore nor stiff. Probably because I did more walking than I planned. My right knee did hold up with the Cho-Pat I purchased from my chiropractor last Friday. Of course, running with my knee brace for the first time on a 26.2 mile course wasn't a bright idea. Whatever. What's done is done.
Time to concentrate on the Reno-Tahoe relay and sprint tri.
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