Team Skinny - Back to School (Sept 08) (Page 9)

I would back my training up a week if I could without interfering with my race. I have also just split the difference until I was caught up so maybe run 5 if that feels good the keep inching it up till you are back on track. Almost no one stays rigidly with their plan as it is written. Be flexible and just stay excited you are making progress.

 Also... why not run in the rain? If I didn't run in the rain I would never run. (Seattleites have a different view on sports and rain)

Running in the rain is not the problem. It's the lightening that is popping all around here that worries me.

I don't think me pushing my training back a week is going to effect my race since I still have over a year to get ready for it. The thing that is really going to set me back quite a bit is the shoulder surgery that I am going have to have in the middle of January. They say I should be back to full mobility with in 6 months, and my first race is July 4th weekend. So hopefully I should be good to go if not I may have to push my race back a month or so. But we will cross that bridge when we get there.

Peace,

Chris

Just curious...have you discussed your plans for the race with your doctor?

No, I've had this surgery once about 10 years ago. They put in three metal clips to help hold my shoulder in the socket. After a football injury I had a bad problem with my shoulder sliping out of the joint.

Up until about a year ago everything was fine. But I started getting a dull pain, with some grinding and then the pain got even worse. After the usuall MRI's, CT scans, and x-rays he thinks on of the clips has worked its way out of the bone and is floating around in the joint.

He said that it should be an out patient surgury. I have another appointment in a couple of weeks to go over my CT scan and I will talk with him about it then. But I don't think there will be a problem.

Peace,

Chris

i146q - 2008-09-11 10:24 PM Today was 'running around like my head was cut off' day! I've been up since 4 am and had to reformat my harddrive, wiping clean, my entire computer.... Then read, study, print out notes, go to class, had another dr's appointment, and I didn't get home till after 9pm. I'm afraid I'm going to crash before the training gets done. Tonight is yoga though. Maybe I can take yoga easy??? --Josh R.

It is days like that in college and medical school that led to my being massively out of shape...Feeling like there was no time to exercise, no time to eat right, no time to get proper sleep.  I think its really great that you are trying to keep in shape and train while going to school!

Hey Katie,

I have been told that it is better to only weigh yourself once a week. Then that way you are not getting frustrated the rest of the week with if you see your weight go up one day and down the next. I know that it has helped me out a lot just weighing in once a week.

Peace,

Chris

i146q - 2008-09-11 11:24 PM Today was 'running around like my head was cut off' day! I've been up since 4 am and had to reformat my harddrive, wiping clean, my entire computer.... Then read, study, print out notes, go to class, had another dr's appointment, and I didn't get home till after 9pm. I'm afraid I'm going to crash before the training gets done. Tonight is yoga though. Maybe I can take yoga easy??? --Josh R.

Know the feeling Josh, these last two weeks have been insane with work and just a lot of extra crap going on. When does life get easy?

Holy smokes, Katie...don't weigh yourself multiple times a day, you will go nuts!!  I would say at most do once a day, same time each day (upon waking up is best), although if you can, once a week works fine too. 

I personally do the daily thing, because I know how whacky your weight can vary, and I would hate to catch my only weigh of the week on a high water day and think I was not doing well when the day before and the day after weigh-in you showed weight loss.  My 0.02.

Thanks again for the spot on advice Saling! So what you are saying is I need to offer you the hat trick and stir up another challenge

Sorry bout your luck there Comet, hopefully it will all turn out okay and get you back out there.

Well I guess you could always go over to Sailings and have him wait on you hand and foot

Yeah Comet,  I can cook you some fried fish, bring you a beer and can't forget Lil Debbies.

Sorry to hear about your knee I know how it feels.  I could do sqauts and ride, but running and stairs killed me.

I like the twist. I will put together a plan for next week and we'll go Mon- Sun if you are game.

BTW- at least you are doing more and not less...yeah I know about rest and recovery

carlacrews - 2008-09-13 10:23 AM Morning skinnies!  Comet, sorry to hear about your knee...I hope it all will work out fine. (which I'm confident it will).  Saling...I have a problem with scorpions...can you drive a few thousand miles to check them out?!?!?  Sherm...take the challenge.  Sal can't win it.  He can't handle a day off or a short workout  You've got this one in the bag  As for me...my sprint for tomorrow was cancelled.  I guess the 40mph winds and flooding were the issues.  This makes me sad...I will not be losing any poundage this weekend

40 mph winds and flooding, sounds like they should have made it an Xterra race

Shermbelle - 2008-09-13 9:31 AM

carlacrews - 2008-09-13 10:23 AM Morning skinnies!  Comet, sorry to hear about your knee...I hope it all will work out fine. (which I'm confident it will).  Saling...I have a problem with scorpions...can you drive a few thousand miles to check them out?!?!?  Sherm...take the challenge.  Sal can't win it.  He can't handle a day off or a short workout  You've got this one in the bag  As for me...my sprint for tomorrow was cancelled.  I guess the 40mph winds and flooding were the issues.  This makes me sad...I will not be losing any poundage this weekend

40 mph winds and flooding, sounds like they should have made it an Xterra race

I would have bought new tires for my bike just so I could race.  Really, this was like jerking Christmas morning out from under a kid!