Run Life

AM: Patient cancellation this morning. Got to love that with the semester winding down. Only a week and counting till the break! Was able to sleep in a little longer and get in some miles with Katie, baby, and Jax this morning. Super humid out and feeling pretty sore still from sunday. Nice little way to start the day though. 

PM: 4 more. couldn't help it 

PM: was not feeling up to running this morning, even with no clinic. Ran errands with katie. Legs were still sore and neck was a bit sore from the other day in clinic. Decided to just ease into the day. Ran 8 though after school. Legs feeling better. 

PM: run with Ian and Connor around lake Hefner. Windy cool breeze from the North. nice 10 miles in about 65 mins. Felt good, legs a little sore from sunday still. Now hitting up the books for finals on Monday. 

PM: study day! all day for finals on monday-wednesday. Ran with team JB around edmond after some mid-afternoon drama! Got in 9.3 around OC trails with jason and jax. finished the last .7 on tred to get the 10. Feeling good and pretty well recovered. Ready to get on the track for some turn over stuff later this week after the tests. A few more days of easy runs is on the menu for now. 

PM: with finals this week i did not run with the team today. to be efficient with my time I spun on the treadmill for running 10 miles while watching the second half of the thunder game. killed two birds with a stone. ran last two in 5:55 and 5:45 for 63 minutes total. not ideal but tread surface is soft and easy on my legs after a week since OKC. 

Yikes....laziness combined with finals week. Good thing tests end on wednesday morning. Long day of two tests and continual studying for two more tomorrow. Let dinner/food get the best of me tonight....Tomorrow immediately after tests gotta get the legs shuffling. 

PM: 6 miles real quick from the long night of studying still to come. Last final tomorrow and last day of 10 days recovering from OKC. Excited to get back to the grind of training. Finally a fourth year dental student after tomorrow!

Ha wow, I have 16 miles to my total this week....Finals really did a number on me this week. Guess I could use the break though, pretty dead last night and didnt feel like a run was in the cards. I will get a little workout in tonight and try to up the miles the next few days before I had out to Extern at Memphis. The volume for the weekdays next week might be in jeopardy as well. We will see...

PM: Met up with Scott and Jason at rankin track for some mile repeats. Did 5 starting at 5:17, 5:08, 5:04, 4:57 and 4:58.. Cooled down to get 10.5 total with the crew. Came home and saw that Katie and Bailey were going to get another 4 in so I decided to jump in that with the weather money we had. Really humid but nice post rain run. did 4.5 to get the even 15. 

School is officially over for a few weeks. woke up pretty sore from yesterdays workout which I was surprised to find out. Ran 10 to shake out the legs nice and easy. average around 7min pace. off to Tennessee now..

Nice and easy with katie around brentwood. Ran from the In-laws house through the neighborhood and around the brentwood block. Finished at 13.3. The in-laws have a great hill next to there house so I try to take advantage of it when I can. Did a few hill stride on the monster incline to round out the 14th mile. 

AM: Ran with Jax on the Muran road. Nice and cool this morning. Ran 5 out and back at a moderate clip to get the run done with. Enjoyed the country scenary though. Really pleasant run, right around 62 total minutes. Now off to Memphis for the weekly externship. Hope to explore the city a little bit this week with the long days of the externship we will see. Might try to get up early and run before the days begin. hope to get in 5-6 each day. 

PM: 8 miles of exploration around downtown memphis and the riverside before dark. Legs were pretty tired and dead from standing around all day. But I will take it, any miles this week are bonus. 

PM: 10 miles after extern hours. Legs a bit dead from standing all day! Pleased to get out and get a solid recovery run in. Run around downtown and "mud" island. 

dead after extern. got called back in for more externing duties. Lazy and took a mini nap imbetween. 

PM: Late day at the extern. up around 530 and didnt get done till 730 or so. 

finished up extern around 5 and jetted back to nashville right after....after back to back OR cases the back of my left leg, behind my knee starting to feel really tight.

After sleeping in from traveling and extern the back of my leg on the left side has really blown up with a lot of pain. I can barely move my leg from a hyperextended position. Really not running today. 

Lots and lots of pain behind the knee. Might meet up with a family orthopedic surgeon to get a little more insight about my knee. No running again, Yikes this is really starting to suck.

Meet up with the orthopedic surgeon and got a tentative diagnosis that I have a ganglion cyst behind my knee. Very painful to even try to walk much. Looks like he will give me a cortico-steroid shot in the next day for the pain and swelling. 

I was able to lift some light weights in from the in-laws basement gym. Havent done that in over two years. So know I should be sore all over tomorrow.  

Got the shot in the leg around 9pm. Hope this helps with the healing. Tried to turn a few revolutions on the spin bike but wasnt happening. 

officially a week off! brutal but on the upside my leg is feeling a lot better from the shot. noticed the swelling went down a lot as well from the night before. was able to do some light biking with the father in-law. Rode 10 miles at noon and then did 22 miles at around 630 at night. Felt good to finally get some cardio in. Good routes and awesome scenary around nashville, hit a few hills on the ride. 

0 run miles but did a sweet ride again on eastern Tennessee side up to North Carolina and back. climb was from about 500ft to 5400ft and then back down. We climbed around basically 30 miles up around 9% grade most of the way and then flew down for the most part. Had a great time riding and it was actually pain free!!! Hopefully looking to run tomorrow morning, but no later then saturday. Hoping a week off doesnt completely take me out of my rhythm. Atleast the summer is young! lots of time for summer training. I do have another externship next week in Texas so that will take up some time as well. 

Finally Running! nice little 8 miler around the brentwood neighborhood with katie and jax. Perfect weather for running. Leg was a little stiff but not too bad. Pleased with it, tired from yesterdays ride. 

drive time

PM: Meet jason at Hefner. Windy, hot and humid. With several consecutive days off this was not a great combo for being out of shape. Felt the lack of running early. The headwind and the humidity took a toll towards the end. Overall just wanted to get through this run, pretty much like every other run this week until I get back into my running routine. Leg feels a lot better overall though. 

PM: 8 miles with cody and katie after drive to SA for externship this week.