Believe to Achieve

Some of my labwork back.   I am not a Dr.  but I am pretty intelligent about reading labs and taking clinical symptoms to go with them to come to a diagnosis.  I see my Dr. this week.  But of course since I have the ability to review my labs I did.  It looks as though not only did my low iron cause some problems at SGM but an apparent HYPERTHYROIDISM!!  yup.  low TSH, very low.  Hmmmmm....symptoms effect every part of your body-- increased heartrate(YUP MILE 15 and 16 downhill), INTOLERANCE TO HEAT (hell-o ST. GEORGE), anxiety, sleeplessness (didn't sleep all week any sort of pattern the week before SGM), irritability, SWEATING  (I had noted on my blog how UNusually sweaty I was getting even in just one mile), and MUSCLE FATIGUE especially in the upper body and quads, oh and the best one weight loss (I was wondering why I was losing weight the week of the marathon)!!!! SERIOUSLY?    No wonder SASHA puts HEALTH before CONDITIONING!!    I have got to get my YING and YANG way more balanced.   Further labs pending.

AP for 8.3 miles =  7:35.  Not sure where that came from on a BUM foot!!  you know I really think once I get all these balances back in my body it will go away because I am STIFF as a board.  All my muscles feel tight--esp lower back and hamstrings.  The darn PF isn't helping either.  My DHEA level came back VERY LOW again as well.  Last year when I felt worse in Sept. it was 40.  When I started to feel better and after taking the med for one week (it made me feel weird) and then rechecked in a month it went to 74.  Normal values being 75-400.  Sunday my value was 61!!! This is the master hormone to every other hormone-- mainly adrenaline, thyroid, etc.....HENCE MY muscle aches and fatigue and stiffness and heartrate issues.  As April put it I am a mess!!   But a HOPEFUL MESS nonetheless!! : D.  Still waiting on my vitamin levels (D and B).  Last year D was VERY low (21), normal is above 40.  B looked good to me in the 300s and my Dr felt it should be higher.  Not sure I believe that necessity.  It was normal for crying out loud.  Let's leave well enough alone.  Actually these values are affected by low iron so there you go.  One thing leads to another.  I felt pretty good starting out today in the cool AUTUMN AIR and seeing all the fall leaves on the ground from the wind storm last night.  IF my foot wasn't ailing I would really have enjoyed this even more.  BUT I really was quite tight everywhere as well.  LIKE A MUMMY TRYING TO RUN or something.  WELL the best part is a I finished off with two sets of front, side, side planks - 60sec, 30, 30.  Then going forth with the push up challenge and did the third days of push ups for column two and guess what?  I FEEL STRONGER AND THEY FELT EASIER.  AMAZING I TELL YA!!  I did   8, 10, 7, 7, 10 (120 seconds in between of rest/stretching).   Push ups are quite mental for me.  I had to count to four, then count to four again and then count to two to do the last 10.  Somehow that made it easier in my mind to tell my body to do it.  Strange huh?  Lastly, I did two sets of twelve each of lateral raises (two types), biceps (two types), over head shoulders, lay down chest, triceps (two types), and rows.  Felt strong today despite my tightness.  All will be well soon.  : D.   ****GOOD NEWS!!!  This just in--My ferritin level has increased GREATLY from taking ORAL LIQUID IRON CALLED FLORADIX FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS!!!  AMAZING STUFF I TELL YOU!! GERMAN-MADE IN A DARK GLASS BOTTLE--- EXPENSIVE, but has several added herbs and vitamin Bs to aide absorption!!  SO STUPID THAT I SO RANDOMLY TOOK IT.  Just finally completed the bottle I got at the beginning of May that should only last two months at the most on Saturday!!!  And I had a dose for  just about every day since the marathon.  NOT good.    Off to purchase a new bottle since it is working!!  : D.  No IV Transfusions for me!!!  So glad.  It was pricey!!!  ALSO MY VITAMIN B level has increased.  No wonder I had energy today.  NOW to get my DHEA up.  Still waiting on Vitamin D results. 

8.1 miles before work in the chilly air. A little red abdomen when I got back even with two layers on. All my fat that is freezing up. AP 8:22. Ran out of my comfort area for 430am run--- into town and by the cemetery and on to Locust Ave by the rec center. Closed at this hour. Luckily my music kept me from getting too spooked. Foot is going to hate me.

Got up at 430am and remembered I needed to do arms so I wanted a warm up so I ran all I could in order to get to work on time-- 4.25 miles in 8:26AP then pushups--- 9, 11, 8, 8, 11(8 is all I could do with only 60 second break in between). I had no strength. Lack of glucose. Then I ended with 60, 30 ,30 planks. My muscles felt weak doing the plank after push ups. Worked all day yesterday and today. Foot totally the biggest let down of my running career. I have a dr. appt tomorrow to review my labs but now I am also going to have to suggest a bone scan because the pain is NEVER going away. I can't even run normally on it. I have to run on the outside of my foot!! It is my heel that is killing me. I noticed it about a week before the marathon and the night before I really felt it but I was telling myself it was just prerace "crap" so I brushed it off. I wonder if that what caused me to get more blisters as well as I purposed ran on my forefoot to avoid my heel. Seriously I am just a stupid runner. An addicted one, so that's my problem. I can't quit cold turkey. However did you POOL RUN APRIL? Elliptical will still be too pain ful for me. Even more pressure on my heel. Biking doesn't seem like it would be any better. BLAH BLAH. and its almost the holidays. all I need is to gain weight to add to my sadness.

Frightmares at Lagoon.  11 hours of GhOuLisH fun with my family!! : D.  NO running.  Trying to obedient.  Foot tender to palpation and ambulation.  But not as bad as at work yesterday since I didn't stress it.  Wondering if I should still do push ups as they put pressure on the heel?  girl push ups don't but they are too wimpy now that I have been gaining ground ;D.  And what to do for a warmup without re-injuring my heel?   I don't like to weightlift without warming up.  Also my left sciatic and inner thigh nerve was actually more painful today (Thursday) then my right foot PF.  I obviously had been changing my form not to land on the inside of my heel.  Maybe I will try biking in the COOL air outside on Friday.  hmmm......    SOCKS ARRIVED.  THEY SENT ME  FIVE PAIRS OF VERY NICE-looking  BLISTER-FREE guarantee (supposedly ; D), to have me try out.  The customer service gentleman felt very badly for my experience with their sock so they wanted me to try an assortment of styles/materials and let them know.  Wow. 

I need to go to a  RUNAHOLIC's ANONYMOUS group.  I am not supposed to go running and here I am running.  And as I was running (only going to run 3-4 I told myself just to warm up to do my arms/pushups) I was thinking "how am I going to explain this to the blog?".  Well....I drove my daughter to her friends this morning at around 11am and the WEATHER and the AIR was calling my name.  No other reason then I needed to BE OUT THERE.  I couldn't let this ABSOLUTELY gorgeous day for running to PASS ME BY.  SO I goofed up.  But you know what, my PF was good to me.  It only slightly hurt the first 1.5 miles and then it didn't hurt at all and without looking at my pace I got faster and faster and it felt easier and easier.  NOW mind you my left leg was totally ACTING ridiculous, but I blame that on my left foot and all the pushups.  I am sure my legs have to do a lot of the work because my arms are too weak to push me up.  My left sciatic nerve is the over stretched one.  But I did some stretches after my run and it appears to be on the back burner, not bothering me at all. I did my pushups-- WEEK two day 2, second column--- 10, 12, 9, 9, 13 (12 just could not do the last one, I collapsed!! before I could finish it, no way could I finish it).  That's 52 pushups for me.  ME who couldn't even do one at one point.  Anyway....9o seconds rest in between sets then  I did 60, 30, 30, on the planks repeated x 2.  The push ups make it way too hard for me to do the planks without out shaking.  Weird.  My upper arms/shoulders are just too weak!!!  I finished up with my usual routine with the arms as I have been doing.  Two sets of 12 each.   AP for 8 miles = 8:08.  First mile 9:08, (didn't look at my watch), 8:45, 8:21, 8:00, 8:02, 7:48, 7:29, 7:29.   All felt easy except for my tight left leg that is gone all of the sudden.  Oh YAH I iced myself in the RIVER for 8 minutes.  I felt great in the river.  VERY therapeutic.  I think this is going to help my recovery all the more.  This is my first icing since before SGM.   I totally forgot to ice after SGM as I couldn't find a decent spot and then I just gave up because the ROCKS by the river were too hard to climb down post marathon in St. George. 

testing the foot again....didn't feel it during the run but it acted up at work but not as much as usual but enough to make me reconsider my actions.  ap for 8 miles at 4:23 am = 7:58.  Left hip slightly bugged. getting better.  the whole run felt easy.  but why don't I feel a thing like last year?  i  haven't run fast for three weeks.