Last of the planned "goose-eggs". Next week will be an almost normal week of running, with long run and everything - yippee. I was planning on riding my bike into work today, but my arm is still hurting pretty badly so I am going to get it checked out tomorrow (and likely get some sort of splint for it) - I don't want to ride again until I have some protection for my arm. And, I am going to switch out the clipless peddles for a little while, even though it will mean I won't be getting quite as good of a workout. My weight is holding steady, haven't lost yet, but haven't gained any either. I am still confident (best laid plans again) that I can get down 3-5 pounds by fall ... especially if I bicycle to work a few days a week. I would love to be in the 125-128 range by the 10 mile race in the fall. Happy Thursday bloggers! ************************* Update... my arm is not broken (yea - even my almost 47 year old bones are pretty tough!). The x-ray was very cool it was digital, very crisp. He showed me where the muscle was "distorted" - he called it a "severe soft tissue injury". Two things about the visit, first was I met a woman in the waiting area that is a runner, and has a running group that meets on Tuesday and Saturdays. The Tuesday runs are on trails near a state park that I tried to run in the first weekend we moved here -- we couldn't find any good "runnable" trails (they were either super rocky or sand) -- so this will be cool to run with some people who can show me around the trails. I am excited. The second thing was the doctor was a runner (the woman had told me) - so I told him about cross-training as I recover from the marathon and he just looked at me and said, "cycling is dangerous, why would want to do that?". He described some exercises he wanted me to do to make sure I don't lose any muscle mass as my arm heals he said, "and the good news is you can run". When I asked him if I could ride this week - he just said, "why don't you just run?" -- ha ha ha, my kind of doctor.
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