Rhett

14 weeks

Weekly Review 

I've had this ongoing lower right abdominal pain for a few months that gets better for a day then worse then mild then severe. I would have sworn I have pubalgia, aka sports hernia. It totally feels like a muscle issue, but I've been watching videos trying to figure out what to do to help it and I came across a sports doc who said it may be a nerve problem from compression of my lower vertebral discs. Seems weird but he suggested I pull on the skin where the pain is and do the movement that causes pain. I did it and the pain decreased by a good 90%. Now if this was a muscular problem that wouldn't have done anything. Anyways so I've been working on lower back decompression exercises and sure enough, I feel a ton better. I'm excited to run tomorrow morning and see how it feels. 
I had a good week of training with a little increase in my daily mileage, but I only got in a 15 mile long run so my total for the week was 3 miles less than last week. I did however get in a long hard ride on Saturday. That felt good 

This next week will be the 3rd week of my second 4 week block so I will increase mileage a little more each day and try to get in a longer run on Friday before I start my recovery week the next week. I did my OP core work 6 days and will continue to do that. I'll mix in some bike trainer during the week and my even play soccer tomorrow night if my lower ab thing feels ok. 

96 days

AM. 7 hilly miles at easy effort.  My lower righ ab thing felt really good today!!!! I won't say it was 100% but probably 95%.  I'll take that as long as it doesn't flare up again.  Maybe I will get to 100% soon.  Here's hoping.  ThenI did my OP core work. I'll probably go play soccer tonight.

PM. I played soccer tonight and had a lot of fun. The good news is my lower ab thing gave me very little problem. The whole decompression thing is working!  The bad new is I pull my left hamstring sprinting for a ball. I did play for about 90 minutes so I'm going to give myself 2 miles for that. Unfortunately I won't be running for a few days. 

95 days 

Just as I suspected, I woke up with a stiff and sore hammy so I opted to sleep in and rest it. 

Lunch. I walked for 2 miles during lunch at an easier pace than normal as to not aggravate my hammy. 

PM.  35 minutes bike trainer followed by a 3 mile TM walk and then some OP core work skipping the exercises that stress the hammies.

94 days

AM. My hammy is already feeling a  lot better but not good enough to run on.  Wednesdays I usually do weighted vest walking hill repeats anyways, so that is what I did for a total of 5 miles and 800 feet elevation gain. I'll do some more walking tonight along with my OP core work.

PM.  2 mile TM walk then OP core. 

AM.  I started on the bike trainer for 25 minutes to warm up my legs and then was going to try and do some strides outside.  I started with a very slow jog and immediately knew my hammy was not ready to run yet so I bailed and went back inside and did my OP core work.

92 days 

Rovey's Needle. I had a patient tell me about this cool rock formation south of town that looks like honeycomb so I decided to go find it today. I found pretty good directions on Altrails and was there after 2 miles of running and scrambling up dry waterfalls. The rock structure was one of the neatest things I've seen out in the desert around here. Then I found some jeep roads to continue the run. After about 7.5 miles my hammy started hurting pretty good and I decided to continue the adventure hiking. After about 4 hours I realized I didn't have much idea where I was. Luckily I had thrown in extra fluid and calories into my pack so I knew I would be fine for about 6 hours and I just started heading in the direction I thought I should go. I kept trying to find my footprints to follow but I definitely made a few wrong turns and had to double back. Eventually I could se Rovey's Needle but the roads kept winding and it seemed like I wasn't getting any closer. I kept plugging along and at about 5:30 hours starting getting a little worried but then I eventually made it back to Rovey's Needle a little before 6 hours on the trails. I drank up the last of my fluids and hiked out the last 2 miles confidant I was going to make it. I arrived back at my truck about 6:30 hours from the time I left. It's a good thing it was a cool morning or I would have run out of fluids way earlier. 

91 days

AM. 45 mile group ride with my new bike. It definitely helps to have a quality bike. 
 

PM. Center referee boys varsity soccer match. 2 miles. Good hard fought game. Hammy was sore so not a lot of fast running to keep up with the play.