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August 2011

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Location:

Draper,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 16:37

6K CC - 19:55 

4 miles- 22:10 

10K- 34:38

15K- 49:57 

Half Marathon- 1:12:03

20K - 1:08:38 

Marathon- 2:35:49

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay fit and have fun doing some local races.

Get my youth cross country team, www.racecats.org off the ground.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Feel energized. Stay healthy and balanced

Personal:

Four awesome kids ages 4, 8, 10, and 12 years old. Love to run, play, and write. Married to entrepreneurial Aaron.

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Rode my bike up Flagstaff Mountain.

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Surgery day!  Busy seeing Dr. Philippon and his assistants, nurses, Doctors in preparation for surgery.

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Post-Op day, 2 PT appointments, 40 minutes of stationary biking, and lots of sleep.

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2 PT appointments, 40 minutes of stationary bike

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2 PT appointments, 40 minutes of stationary bike

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PT, 20 minutes of stationary bike, drove home from Vail.

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At home exercises and 20 minutes of stationary bike

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PT and 20 minutes of stationary bike

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PT and 20 minutes of stationary bike after having hip surgery last week.

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PT and 20 minutes of stationary bike

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Home exercises and 20 minutes of stationary bike

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Went to the therapy pool today to move around and walk a little.  Enjoyed listening to the conversations of optimistic, friendly people probably mostly in their late 70s and 80s. Also went to physical therapy and did home exercises and 2X20 minutes of stationary bike.

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Home exercises, PT, 2X20 minutes of cycling.

I have not been portraying the full extent of my post hip surgery rehab through my short postings over the past couple of weeks.  In all reality, my days have been pretty consumed with following post surgery protocol.  Aaron does circumduction (rotation) exercises with my leg in four different ways for 20 minutes every morning and evening.  I do isometric exercises with my quads, gluts, and abs for a few minutes every hour.  I stretch my hamstrings and hip flexors through slow, gentle movements throughout the day.  I lay in a CPM (continuos passive movement) machine for 4-6 hours every. While I'm in the CPM machine I'm supposed to wear these calf pump sleeves and a bolster between my legs that attaches my legs together to avoid blood clots and external rotation. I admit I have been boycotting the calf pump sleeves and bolster ever since post-op day 7 because without drugs to keep me relaxed, they are unbearably annoying.   I ice my hip/quad with my Game Ready device 2-3 hours a day.  I lay on my stomach for 2 hours a day, often icing or stretching my hip flexors at the same time. I ride a stationary bike for 20 minutes every morning, sometimes 20 minutes in the evening too.  Everything takes longer to do on crutches.  The last couple of nights I made dinner for the first time but it took me twice as long and I had to get the kids to carry everything around the kitchen for me since its really hard to carry stuff when I need my hands for crutches.  Recovering from surgery is pretty much a full-time job.  I'm glad I already have 2 weeks behind me.

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Went to the therapy pool again today before physical therapy.  Did some slow motion limited range of motion pool running and other exercises in my prescribed therapy book.  Also tied my legs together with a bouy and swam some laps.  It felt good to get my heart rate up over 100 bpm for the first time in weeks. 

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2X20 minutes of stationary bike, no-leg swimming at FAC, and home exercises.

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Not much exciting to blog about lately but I am finally off crutches!  I tried the elliptical this morning; felt pretty good.  I also lifted weights and swam for a bit.  After I got out of the pool I lifted my arm up and my shoulder came out of socket.  Sometimes that happens if my shoulder muscle fatigues.  It sounded a little crunchy when it went out and is a little more sore this evening than usual.  It got me thinking that maybe I should go ahead and get the shoulder repair surgery now that I've already met my insurance deductible for the year.  Then I thought about surgery and I wanted to puke.  I think I'd rather continue dislocating my shoulder every month for ten years before submitting myself to surgery and annoying recovery time again.

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