Tuesday Tidbits
| October 23, 2012 | Posted by Carrie under Best Body Bootcamp, fitness, injury, Running |
1. I went for an easy paced 3 mile run this past Saturday. In honor of Hikermom’s virtual fundraiser for her family friend Colton, a 12 year old battling a rare form of Leukemia for the 3rd time in 3 years. Having a child that age, I felt compelled to get involved. The virtual race goes through the end of the month.
2. The run itself was fine, but by the end, my lower butt (upper hamstring?) started to hurt. By the end of the day it was really sore. I think it’s kind of the adductor muscle? maybe? All my self-diagnosis wasn’t getting me very far. Yes, I have a half marathon in 5 days. No, I’m not sure what to do. No, I won’t be doing any cardio this week (yes, I did go for that walk Sunday, but honestly it felt like it stretched and warmed up as we were going). My foam roller has become my best friend, more than usual. It’s a really deep soreness. It’s feeling better since Sunday, so that’s good.
3. Somehow I managed to leave my yoga mat at the gym last weekend. Who does that? Seriously, I went for yoga class and then left. I think the problem was that I also made a stop in the gym locker room and put my stuff down when I decided to take the picture below. So, I can’t multi-task very well and then must have been messing with my phone and forgot that I had been there for yoga and should have left with the mat. Is it also really bad that I didn’t actually notice until this past Saturday – 6 days later? I was getting a chair out of the back of my car and realized the mat wasn’t in the car.
4. Best Body Bootcamp started yesterday – the first workout was amazing. I’m so glad I’ve signed up for this. I’m doing a little modification this week, with laying off the lower leg work to allow whatever in my butt is hurting to get better and to also keep my legs fresh as possible for Sunday. So, no squats or lunges or cardio for me. I did do the suicide squats, maybe I shouldn’t have, but we’re all realizing I don’t always make the right decisions. Have you ever done a Scorpion? Well, here is me attempting it.
My friend got a great picture, just before I rolled off the ball and on to my butt. I’m determined to get this one down in these next 8 weeks. I’m already loving Bootcamp. And, I’m so glad that my gym friend signed up with me. Although she was cursing me during those Scorpions.
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I’m doing BBB too! The Scorpion was tough!
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I can’t believe I didn’t even think to stabilize the ball before doing the move. I’m looking forward to trying it again.
Yikes. Be careful doing a race while youre in pain. It may side line you for a LOT longer than if you had rested.
I know. I’m taking it super easy this week. Thank you for the reminder.
Hope you aren’t in any pain after the run this weekend. Great job on bootcamp!
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Me too. Thank you.
Those scorpions look hard. I laughed imagining you rolling off, did you get a picture of that too? I left a pair of shoes at the gym once and never got them back. SO SAD! Luckily they were older shoes, but I really loved them.
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No picture of me on my butt. Bummer to not get your shoes back. To think someone would steal stinky old shoes?
I love all the scorpion recaps! You guys will be amazed at the end becaue I bet if you go back to that workout and move after all the workouts you will be able to do it.
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I’m so excited to see the improvements! I’m loving the workouts. I love that they are so challenging, but are also easy to modify.
That’s funny about the mat. I went to the store, bought a belt, two dresses and a sweater and got home and the belt didn’t make it in the bag. I still haven’t gone back for it. Do you think they will even believe me? Is it worth the five dollars? I don’t know. Good luck with BBB!
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