Back With a Capital Vengence!

AM: Morning hip and 30 minute walk around the Ave's.

AM2: 10 mile bike ride on the JRP. Cold!

PM: Evening hip and 30 minute walk through Memory Grove with my trekking poles. I wonder where I got that idea from :)

This week's focus... walking!

AM: 15 minute walk and morning hip.

PM: 15 minute walk and 60 minutes bike. 

Walking is awesome!

AM: Early SPIN class and evening hip drill. My hip flexor is so tight up into my abdomen that it feels like my insides are being yanked when I walk. I am still not allowed to stretch my hip flexor for fear that my iliofemoral ligament is not totally healed yet :(

PM: Morning hip drill. Backwards day.

PM2: 90 minute massage. I have the best massage therapist ever!!!

My new goal each week is to bike at least as many miles as Jake runs :) Gotta get a move on! I am already down by 8.5.

AM: Bike at PT. Feeling so good after massage last night and all the manual therapy at PT today. Was allowed to do a little hip flexor stretching, feels soooooo good!

PM: 50 minutes on the spin bike followed by 30 minutes of wandering around the outside of Sugar Daddy Park with Andrea.

PM2: Clam shells, butt busters, and all sorts of planks. 

10 weeks post-surgery today! Since I haven't been whining a ton lately, I must be doing okay. Last surgery I got to start running at 10 weeks and well look what happened so this time we are being way more cautious. I am going to give it a full four more weeks before I even try to take those first running steps, but I am happy to say that thoughts of running have started creeping in :)

AM: 70 minutes at SPIN class followed by 5 minutes on the ELLIPTICAL (it is a start!) and hip drill. I have been on the bike once and sometimes twice a day for the last 8 weeks so it feels GREAT to be officially permitted to do something else.

PM: 30 minute walk and evening hip. 

The New York Times loves ultrarunning lately. Super cool article, complete with gross feet pictures, on the Barkley Marathon.

AM: Bike and easy day at PT. I bribed my PT with cinnamon rolls to give me an easy workout so I can feel good for birthday bike ride tomorrow :) 

AM2: So lovely out I had to go for a bike ride. Up Memory Grove, a bitty ways up City Creek, and down Virginia. Progress! 

Birthday Ride on the Burr Trail Road!