Friday BIKE 10 miles in TGP (cold) and BIKE 10 miles on the trainer
SWIM 1050 yards
Saturday RUN 2 miles, and walked about 0.75 miles
NUMERICS: 6:44 hours as above, plus COMMUTE 23.2 miles
Friday morning was chilly! I wanted to ride, but I didn't want to ride outdoors in the 37F and I didn't want to ride the trainer just yet. I wavered back and forth. Do I HTFU and ride outdoors or do I wimp out and stay indoors. I haven't ridden The Bird since....???....and I wasn't sure the new bike seat and different fit would be good for me. Don't be a chicken, saddle up and get outdoors.
Out I went, brrrrrrr, I'm trying to dress light but smart, warm but not sweaty, and succeeded and failed. My core was warm but my fingers and forearms ached. As I've done before, I pushed through one lap, then decided I could win both ways -- ride half here and half there -- and get both outdoor and indoor rides, neither of which I'd really wanted but really wanted. Win :)
Then a swim, the goal was 1000 yards but the Garmin picked up 1050. To be sure, I did an extra lap with the Garmin off, so that I really did 1050. The swim was my fourth one this week, and my shoulders and neck were feeling the new fatigue. Some muscle or ? on my head had a sharp pain, a pain familiar from my ironman training in 2014. Is it good or bad?
Speaking of pains, I need at some point to note what I feel here. I have multiple, where to start? My right forearm/elbow has been pained for weeks now. When I lift something like a kombucha jar or the Puppy, try to open a door handle, pick up a bag - it hurts like a sharp ache. My feet have aches and pains - multiples of them, and they move and migrate and come and go, leaving me to wonder if they are real or not. Sometimes the pinkie bones on the outside of my feet have a sharp pain, especially if I roll my foot a little over to the side so the bone touches harder into the ground. Separately something under my heel (mostly the right) has a rock-in-shoe type pain at random. Not when walking, but like when driving? And the left ankle sometimes feels like it's not rolling right, like some tendons or ligaments aren't aligning proper.
Then there's my right now, which also feels like it's not aligning proper. Like the tendons/ligaments aren't pulling the knee right, or pulling imbalanced. This is hard to describe. Sometimes the left knee too, but much milder. Mostly, when I'm stepping up on a step, stepping down, or starting the bike from a stop (in summary, when I'm pushing the knee when bent) it feels strained and weak. This is probably connected to my hip?
The worst of the pain is this one. My high hamstrings or sitbones or something in that area has episodes of burning, kinda similar to the stress fracture pain from 2019! It's under the butt crease on the right side mostly, but sometimes I feel a hot sizzle of pain at the sit bones. This was especially so when I was driving to/from AA this weekend. Just sitting?! But pure chance a triathlon news email I read last week had an article on high hamstring tendonopathy - which sounds sorta/kinda like what I have! This has been stressful - the thought that the injury is still there, or there's another injury, or ...? My stomach turns a bit, I feel sick to think I'm injured again.
But I'm still running, cautiously, and took full advantage of the rest week I just finished. I'm not sure what to do.
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The new moon last week was another 'start' for me. I re-dedicated to goals, and on the drive back to STL I was approaching Indy the urge to 'enjoy' the foods that make me sick came back. I know what oatmeal does to me, and peanut butter, and I keep thinking I can enjoy them without getting sick "if only I do...." but time and time and time again this feeling has failed. But this time, I won.
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Great weekend to AA, it seemed last minute to be leaving on Friday after work and having to come back so soon on Sunday. But it was 100% worth it. I can't get enough. But the stress just keeps building.
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