Girls club fun! I was 30 min late (guess what, I got lost trying to find a trail head right off Wasatch Blvd. I'm so awesome.) but we still got 5 hours in. 3800 feet gain. I had to hike all hills for the first 2.5 hours, anytime I'd start breathing hard my chest would constrict and freak me out and remind me of pneumonia.... I don't think I'm ready to breathe hard again yet. Strangely after 2.5 hours I felt great, stopped coughing, and was even able to run up some of the hills. I apparently just needed 2.5 hours of coughing, hacking, snot-rocketing to warm up and start enjoying myself.
I wore the nasty old school rough wool socks, which rubbed the bottoms of my feet a little raw. I know it's wrong, but I enjoyed that pain a little. I also chaffed off some of my ankle bone skin, which I could feel through the rough sock, but it didn't hurt much. Between all that, the coughing, and the messed up knee from when I fell on the ice on Monday... I'm in awesome shape! Haha.
I couldn't walk after (stupid knee). Went to see my good ol' chiro, a couple knee adjustments later, 2 bouts of cold laser therapy, 1 round of e-stim, and a few rounds of ice and it's stiff but not awfully painful. I can at least resume walking and not look like a penguin. I am under strict orders to continue care and bail on the 15 I had planned for Thursday, especially if I want to run Fri, Sat, and Sun...
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