Woke up this morning, knee hurt. It was weight bearing and knee extension that caused sharp pain. Going up the stairs hurt bad. Went into the training room after classes (swimming was fine), it had warmed up with all the walking throughout the day so only stairs hurt now. Ligaments and meniscus are fine, thank goodness, it’s just my IT band that’s tight. I’m relieved. All the same, going with the injury prevention plan. Time off until I feel no pain, then increase miles slowly. Time to show my body some love and stop trying to tough out injuries.
Cross training... yasss. Biked 10ish miles in an hour. Was iffy about biking because thought it might hurt it but it was alright. A good alternative. Today is just not my day. Was on campus by the PE building when my tire popped, that was sketchy. Called a friend that lives close to campus, she let me borrow her bike for the rest of the way. I have such great friends :)
Met with Coach again, turns out the workouts he’s going to send are for winter break, we’ll be having workouts still after nationals. I won’t be doing steeplechase this year, Coach isn’t a fan of the steeplechase because it’s so tough/there’s so much impact on the body and can cause a lot of injuries. I’m kind of glad I’m not doing it anymore, I just want to be injury-free. For now Coach says I need to focus on getting my mile time down, but 5k is my strength. I guess once you get the speed down the 5k time comes down too, and I really just need to relearn how to run fast and hold it.
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