Week 6

Crazy to think I am on week 6 already. After this week I enter a "new phase".  I ended up not really doing much of a recovery week this week bc I sort of did that last week (im not sure why I thought i was ahead than i was).  Work was really busy this week.....and my jaw seemed to get worse. But all is well now.  Solid increase in mileage this week.  Can't believe how smoothly this is going....at the end of the summer I will be 1 year of being injury free.  This is HUGE for me.  I am always injured. I never can run much.  Sweet.

Mon 6/4:  70 min ride on the trainer (about 17 miles).  Weather sucked. In fact the weather supposed to be crappy all week.

Tues 6/5:  3.5 mile run (30 min). ya I didn’t do a lot.  One of my patient’s almost passed out on me (she was obese).  Lucky I had the wall on my side and she was safely moved to the bed.  Yahoo hypotension.  Then on the bus from BMC a drunk crazy homeless person called me a bitch and that she hated me.  Her and some other homeless guy stumbled across the street in front of all the cars shortly after.  BMC you are never dull. 

Wed 6/6: off.  Wasn’t planning on this, but decided last night to join part 1 of goodbye Lora at the mission.

 

Thurs 6/7: 5.1 mile interval run (43 min), 60 min bike on the trainer (about 15 miles), TRX. So, since my bike accident I noticed that my jaw started to really both me (especially when eating sandwiches…anything tough).  So, tues I put myself on a soft foods/liquids diet thing.  It’s pitiful to have to cut up all your food into small bites just to eat it…like a child. Haha. I called my dentist and I have to do this for 3 weeks.  I’ve already dropped 3 pounds.  Hope I eat enough, actually….it’s kind of limiting. I guess it makes sense considering I landed face first into the dirt. Haha.

Friday 6/8:  So, I really was going to swim this day.  I came home from a really busy day at work and suddenly that jaw discomfort ive been having got ridiculously worse and moved to more wide spread pain.  It was lovely. I hit up my doc friend, decided it couldn’t be anything worse than a bad sprain. SO I took 4 aleve, had two beers, iced, and it became a lot more tolerable haha.  Hooray drugs and alcohol?

                            This is what I did instead of working out all night. Love me some Gansett!!!!

Saturday 6/9:  TRX, 3 mile run (28 min), and 61 mile bike (3 hours 40 min). I didn’t go for my ride till early afternoon (ABW had to round), so I filled my morning with random other exercise type things.  I was surprised that this felt pretty good.  It was gorgeous outside.  We went to new areas (well for me) in Walpole, Westwood, then down to Norfolk where we turned around.  Another 15 miles down I would be in Rhode Island! My goal is to ride down there and back….eventually.  After the ride I went to L-O-R-A’s partay (part 2) where I got buzzed quickly off one beer. 

Sunday 6/10:  10 mile run (1 hour 29 min).  To my surprise, my 61 mile ride had not fully taken effect to my legs.  My last few miles of this run were faster bc I had to really go to the bathroom.  Longest run in years.  Longest bike in years. SOLID week! Jaw feeling somewhat better….learned to not take so much aleve because it messes with the stomach. 

Weekly TOTAL: 21.1 mile run (3 hours 10 min),  93 miles bike (5 hours 50 min), TRX x2

UPDATE! My bruises are almost gone. Check me out, yo.