Injury

Injuries suck! No matter who you are or when you get them. They always interupt life. I am terrible about how I handle injuries. I will typically ignore them until I can't any longer.

This time it's a little different. Saturday I had a GREAT run. I had gone to the gym to run on the treadmill because it was raining pretty hard. I ran for 90 minutes. I felt great. I was running faster than normal, no pain. All good stuff.

I finished took a shower and then as I was getting dressed my back went ZING!!!! It was as if someone had taken all the muscles in my back and tied them up in a huge not right in the middle. I couldn't stand up straight. I sat down on the bench and just took deep breaths hoping it was a cramp that would go away.

It didn't.

Somehow I made it to my car and to my nephews soccer game. I just figured it would go away. I had been having some pain in my back after workouts all week. I had swam alot more than usual and after each swim felt some tenderness in my back.

It had actually started in my right deltoid and my lower back. I figured it was because I was doing more fly than I usually do.

I spent the rest of the day sitting on my butt with a heating pad against my back sucking down Momentum.

The worst part was I was supposed to do a race with my niece the next day and I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it. I called her mom to see if she could stand in if necessary.

Fortunately I was able to do the race. See my other post. (It was a great time.)

Now 4 days later I am still in pain. It is getting better and tomorrow I have a massage and chiropractor appt that I pray will take care of everything for me.

I find it difficult to not focus on the workouts I'm missing. But I know that right now that would only do more harm. I am still riding to work just so I can still move a little bit and it doesn't seem to aggravate anything.