Slow & Steady Wins the Race :-)

1 hour on the recumbent bike this morning while I studied for my midterm.  Then golfed 9 holes, walked most of that, but didn't have to carry my bag, thank goodness.  I'm now feeling 75-80% sure I have a tibia stress fracture.  WHY?!!!!  I did everything right this time, something is seriously wrong with me.  I've been doing research on sports medicine doctors and going to hopefully get an appt tomorrow with someone actually good this time.  

Yesterday I barely felt my leg at all, so my optimistic bipolar self decided to get her hopes up and think she might be better.  WRONG!  So silly of me to be so optimistic.  Got up early for a test run on the TM, walked .5, ran a mile, cool-down.  That dull shin achey pain came back pretty soon after starting to run which I think can only be a stress fracture, and the rest of the day was worse because of the run.  

I really am going to try and stay optimistic this time.  After all, the pain is minimal, ridiculously minimal when not running.  Though the doctor might say otherwise, right now I can bike, swim, walk, golf, etc.  This does not need to be the depressing horribleness that was last spring.  I think I need to learn to love biking as much as I love running.  And take up swimming.  Then if I loved those things at least a little bit, not being able to run wouldn't be so devastating.  I am terribly sad about the CDA half (don't hate me Rachael!  You will ROCK it), and the fact that I am probably going to miss the Seattle Rock n Roll for the SECOND year in a row (this is becoming a tradition?) but Hood to Coast still seems a definite possibility.

I couldn't get a doctor appointment until Monday since I actually wanted to see a good sports medicine doctor this time.  I chose the UW doctors that treat the UW athletes and worked at the Olympics in Vancouver. 

Later, 35 minutes on the bike.  Nope, still don't love that thing. 

Met Lisa and Anya at BPA trail, rode my bike.  First lap of 3.7 miles, rode while they ran, so braking most of the way, 44 minutes.  Then did a second lap, did this one in 22 minutes, this was rough!  That is a hilly course and I thought my heart was going to explode on some of those hills (and my quads!), I should have worn my heart rate monitor.  So 20 good hard minutes of working out at least, 1:07:26 total, 7.53 miles.

Splits: 5.3, 5.4, 4.7, 5.1, 12.4, 10.9, 9.4, 8.3

30 minutes on the bike trainer.

16 miles around the neighborhood on the bike while Rachael did her long 11 mile run.  She dominates!  I am not a very good bike rider, this was hard and I was slow.  I rode while Rachael ran a few times to catch my breath which made my slowness even slower!  How do people ride so much faster than this?  The hills kill my quads, they were on fire and so tired!  So I did a bunch of loops around the lower culdesacs so I didn't have to do as many loops with the hills.  I wore my heart rate monitor! 

TT: 1:35:45  16.01 miles     AP: 10.0     Max: 21.0    Avg BPM: 126

Splits: 7.5, 7.1, 11.9, 9.5, 10.7, 11.6, 10.5, 10.2, 10.8, 10, 10.3, 10.2, 11.6, 9.5, 11.6, 10.9

Heart rate ranged from 109 to 139 with a max of 156.

Then we golfed 9 holes at Jade Green.  I got a 53, which is good (for me! I realize its horrible for most people!).  Then off to the horse races for the Kentucky Derby!