What Happened?

It's Monday, Veteran's Day. I've been working out, but the workouts have exhausted me so far, so too tired to write anything. Took Thursday and Friday off (Friday is an actual day off).

Saturday morning we had a run clinic at a local running store, then afterwards, we were going for a run. After some started the run, I stayed to find shoes. I bought a pair of shoes 7 years ago, when I first planned to continue training before the downhill spiral - those shoes were purchased at another running store with the same types of experts who watch you run in different style of support shoes and recommend a pair. The pair the guy recommended back then hurt my knee, so I bought a different pair (neutral pair), rather than the stability pair he thought I should have.

I wanted to try again this time, and the stability shoes they recommended seemed to work on the treadmill, and my knee didn't hurt (it was probably injured from the century, back then). So I bought the shoes, but had been in the uber-shy state I get into sometimes, so I snuck out of the store and drove home, rather than run with anyone. It was cold, damp and I only needed to do 3 miles (most of the people hanging around were supposed to do 10 miles....), so figured I could do that later in the day, when it could be possibly warmer.

I ran later in the day, and think I have shin splints.... the question becomes, if your body is used to doing things wrong for so long, is it worth correcting them, or are you introducing the opportunity for hurting something else by correcting one issue??? Should I stick with the old shoes, or try longer on the new, better-correcting shoes? I'll try the new shoes for a week.... (I'll add Paolo Nutini's song, New Shoes to my running song list.....)

I didn't do the bike ride on Sunday - figured I'd let the legs rest a little more. Today is Veteran's day, so figure I'll do the run on the new shoes again (only 25 minutes) and see where the pain is... after that I have to do strength training - I'll be leaving in 7 minutes for the run.... better get up and ready, I suppose.....
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Ok, I ran, did strength exercises and stretched. My knee hurt, but that's because I missed the last step yesterday and landed on my knee. It's bruised, but the good news, is that it seemed to take care of my shin splints. We'll see as the knee gets better.......

The run still wasn't easy, still hated it. How long before you start looking forward to these things? The good news - I didn't check my watch nearly as often. I must not have been wheezing quite so loudly as I crept up on a cat watching something across the street - I was about 5 steps away when it turned and saw me - it sprawled flat on the ground for a second then faked right and ran left under a parked car to get away. Funny, I thought it would have noticed the "thump, thump, thump, wheeze, wheeze, wheeze" from much further away. I won't describe the age of the decrepit cat, so everyone will think I surprised it on my own, not due to the fact that it already had 8 lives in the ground.....

My left arm still thinks it's the only one doing work around here, but it's not complaining nearly as much. After Saturday's awful run, my shoulderblade was completely cramped up. I was surprised that it didn't seem to complain so much today. Probably letting my knee do the whining. I think they are all taking turns.... This is the second time I have tripped on the stairs since I decided to do a triathlon - maybe, since I'm not listening to my conscious mind listing all the reasons this is ridiculous, perhaps my subconscious mind is trying another tactic to get me to quit - a little injury here or there..... I don't intend to let that stop me, as long as it keeps it to bruises, not breaks.....

Tomorrow morning is swim workout #2 - unfortunately, I forgot that I have a swim, which means a new schedule for getting to work - I usually get there around 7am, but now, with the swim, I'm later, but haven't done it enough to set a schedule. Anyway, I set a meeting up tomorrow morning for 8am - my bad. Forgot about the swim..... I think I've worked it out..... we'll see..... Hate to be late to my own meeting.....