RUN 5 miles in about 45 mins, no HR data
BIKE 2 miles in from FoPa
I slept awful last night, long time to fall asleep and then kept waking up. I M'd rice and butter, broke out of it, up to 3rd for some LotR-TTT and hand weights. At 9:17, when Lord Elrond and Lady Galadriel were tele-conversing about Sauron (why am I including all this...?) my phone (on 2nd floor) sounded an alarm and played my latest Songlist addtion -- Radioactive by Imagine Dragon.
Huh? I didn't set an alarm. But it caught my attention, at a great moment in the movie and my song. Like King Theodred, "and so it begins". Gotta get serious. I fought off the Balrog successfully, no Devil, and the reddit Blerch severely limited. But M got me.
And so it begins. With incoming thunder storms too! I skipped the sleep aid, but then lay awake ... thinking....thinking....thinking. Turn on the radio. Listening. Listening to the radio, to the wind chime, to the wind opening and closing the balcony door. Ugh. Kept waking up.
And so after all this, and after the alarm last night, I didn't set my Wake Up alarm at 4:45. Luckily, I woke up at 5:52am. Ugh. Sent a message to BE, I'm supposed to be at the track at 6am! More luckily, I pre-packed so clothes ready to roll. Dog out and fed, me out the door. Drove to the track.
Cool and windy. No rain, but wet. We didn't have a plan, didn't come up with one, so we just ran the loops. We were alone on the track, enjoying the east tailwind, chatting. About weddings, how he and his wife met, about the read aloud show he went to last night, more. Social :)
Home, shower, walk, brekkie. Tried to normal brekkie: oats and butter. Measured so I can track any symptoms. I'm itching a lot, I know gluten can cause that in some people but it's also pollen season. So not sure no that.
Lunch was a strawberry, banana, protein powder, coconut flour smoothie/soup. Eh...needs work. Early dinner of chicken and rice -- this rice I like! -- from instant pot. Around 4pm. I'm trying to eat earlier so I don't go to bed full, like last night. I wasted the day it seems, running gel and PCR, race shopping and reading. But no reddit!
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Dr L appt! The knee burn and tingle from the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve. Google image search confirms. It's adhesions from the inflammation, not damaged. Whew. I couldn't talk when he was working on it, it's such a unique pain from ART. Like it hurts, but not really, and it's sooooo controlled and specific, that it's not really pain per se. It's almost enjoyable. What!? LOL.
My lower back also bad, it's been spasming a bit on the bike and I can't fully bend over to pick something up. And my upper left back trapezoid area was also "really bad". So far hours later everything hurts in a bruised sense, and the upper back still stings. He said if needed come back in 2 weeks.
And to "stay away from traumatic injuries". They aren't good for me. Ha!
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Looking also at Hennepin 100 in early October. It shaves a few precious weeks of the 100 miler schedule, but it's a home run, and a new course. See how the next few weeks go, if I can pick up mileage on schedule. And avoid more traumatic injuries. Like TH said yesterday, am I thinking rationally? (Does the pope shit in the woods?!? Are bears catholic?!?).
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