.take your pick............ :(

of titles that is- see below (got the results today)

..it IS a frickn stress fracture after all
...of course BUYING crutches in APRIL was a good idea
...JOJO is MAJORLY pissed off
..whats that doc?12 weeks of NO running, ARE you mad?
...why the F^CK didnt it show up on the bone scan then...........
.. there goes my frickn season.............
..NOT FRICKN HAPPY JAN OR JON OR BOB OR ANYONE WHO FRICKN CARES TO LISTEN
..did i knock a runner over in my car in my last life or something huh?
..you CANNOT be serious that its MY turn for another BIG injury ALREADY


yeah they kinda get the gist across methinks. no LOL because i am pretty f&ckng annoyed actually

the bones scan didnt show up a stress fracture. apparently there is a small window when a bone scan will not show it up. HOwever the MRI did-i wasnt even completely surprised really, he kept telling me after the bone scan he was surprised because i was presenting LIKE a stressie and he did say the MRI could show us if it was internal rotators in the hip and also was a 2nd opinion on the bone scan about a stressie

okay, im a baby and i kinda cried when he told me. Basically my whole SUMMER season is GONE now, thats the whole reason i train you know :(
am waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay sad.
it was made worse by the fact that i was told on friday that it was ruled out by the bone scan(but again the pain wasnt localised, and all the research i did still kinda pointed that way)

NOt only that, the femoral neck stressie takes a LONG LONG time to recover. I wont even be starting to think about a run/walk program for another 12 weeks. so probs wont run again this year.
not allowed on the bike, can continue water running if it doesnt hurt and am BACK ON frickn CRUTCHES :(
oh and i cant even do clinical pilates. yay fu&ing yay

-apparently you should NOT try hopping when you have a suspected stress fracture in that area as it can fracture right through and then require surgery-um after being told friday i didnt have one, i have been attempting hopping every day.... lucky i found out quickly-apparently the stressie goes about 40% of the way through the bone already

off to camp tomorrow(on crutches-how fun to be on an aths camp and NOT able to run-arent i a joy at the moment, im sure stu is happy im going away, as i am grumplestiltskin-and i ONLY found out today)

and what im really NOT NOT And i mean NOT looking forward to is all the comments at work while im on crutches again(3rd time in 2 years)
yep thats why i dont run
sport is bad for you
oh jo you are always injured
give up on the running

beacuse im going to find it really hard to bite my tongue and not say STFU, i think i may have to get my steely glare out and storm out on my crutches, which is hardly elegant ,,lol

on the other side of things
yes im feeling sorry for myself(big time) at the moment but.......................
i know the following about me as well though

yes im injured
yes its pretty bad
yes its a long recovery
i WILL suck it up and do deep water running and i WILL not lose all my fitness and i WILL get back to running, and whilst it wont be pretty or fast, i still may be able to at least try to compete in the masters champ next april-that will be my new goal, no times just back on the racing circuit without reinjuring myself

ive had worse injuries than this try to knock me off and keep me off running, barney the back springs to mind
and i guess my TAN run the other day wasnt as bad as i thought now. i pb'd most likely with a stress fracture(no wonder i had to stop and walk from the pain up the hill). obviousy shouldnt have run it. i knew before the run that with my pain tolerance and knowing how much it hurt it wasnt right

anyone up for a water run?, im your girl- after all i am the fricking expert. i should become a DWR instructor

whew.NOT a stressie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sooooooooooooooooooooo
spent most of the day at the drs today. after seeing a sports doctor yesterday he said i was presenting like it was potentially a stress fracture at the head of hte femoral bone
(as all the issues are weight bearing)
anyway had the radioactive dye, went to the dr, and he is pretty confident that it is NOt a stressie.
so what is it????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Now that the pain is a little more localised, the weakness seems to be when a lateral movement is performed so he now thinks potentiallya DEEP stabiliser of the hip such as the roatotr cuff(who knew there was one there) or something around about there.
PLAN- MRI monday followed by perhaps a cortisone injection followed by strengthening of the are
MAN the budget is NOT loving me at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tried to do a session on the bike at the track but the pedal broke off-yes it bruised my ankle lol (as when a pedal falls off you bang your ankle against the thing that is supposed to be attached) and couldnt get it back on d'oh!!!!!

i may have to buy a wind trainer i think- camp next week so will decide when i get back and see where im at, otherwise if its long term it may be me imploring Em to borrow hers again(although at this rate maybe i should just buy one)

not a happy little camper i have to say

NO IDEA of rehab- NO IDEA of time frame but am happy its not a stressie

chlorine STINKS and im over it already

..sigh, no running since the weekend.
63min pool session sunday
40min pool session monday-with the last 5mins without the belt
and today i did the equivalent of 6x1km(@4.20min/km) with 70s recoveries

and then 15 mins of swimming laps

and then physio- to be informed i wont be running anywhere in the next week and i need to go get an MRI to make sure that there is no joint issue

did clinical pilates last night which was hard but good and can do some of the activities at home-tummy is a bit sore today

am so over the whole being injured thing. this is the 3rd time this season, achilles, stupid fall at the YY and now a hip prob that has had me running 3or 4 times in the last 4 weeks. im a but grumpy about it and am on an ATHS camp next week where i was looking forward to training

have eaten well teh last two days(but still had some naughty wines) even stu today looked at a photo of me from the masters games(last year) and said you look skinnier there.. sigh i was about 3ish kgs lighter which is the mi nimum i need to lose

a race, some waddling and XCR in review

..i knew hte TAN was never going to be pretty with my hip being sore, TOM, and also 2 weeks on from a half marathon. Stu has alwasy told me that you dont run a good tan time 2 weeks after a half, so my expectations were not high

went for the warm up jog and was alarmed at just how sore my hip was. We had a spare girl so i asked stu if he could actually replace me... no ive submitted the teams (I still think he couldve if he wanted to- i was quite concerned as seriusly it did not feel nice....
previous years i have run 17.3x, 17.3x,17.21 and 17.19 last year. dont run to expectation, i should be a sub 17min runnner but just cant pick the speed back up afte hte hill

anyway started off at the right pace (4.24 for the first km-which included the start of the hill)4.41 which included the hill so thats okay (i did walk for 5m up the hill-hip was sore and i seem to be soft) but the disappointing km was the 3rd where i just couldnt pick it up 4.37 and then the last 800m at 4.23 EDIT oops thats 4.23min/km pace which is 3.36 for the 800m

stu says i was way too slow OVER the hill but thats all i could muster. considering that its 2 weeks after a half and i ran a 2s pb 17.17 thats not too bad an effort.

MAN did i struggle though, it felt like i wouldnt finish :(
limping for hte rest of the day so 63 min water run today.

so XCR in review(and then the fight)
R1-injured
R2-injured
R3-sandown 10km, 47.25 not long back into training after the achilles.
R4-ballarat 15km pb over this course/distance, didnt love the run but got through
R5-coliban 7.9km in around 39 mins -felt terrible couldnt breathe and spewed..lol a pleasure
R6-bundoora- didnt have a team and after working all morning opted out(which i shouldnt have)
YOU YANGS 15km race-took a nasty tumble and lknees gashed to shreds
R7-brimbank 6km -knees still banadaged and weeping, walked the big hill over 30mins but a reasonable run considering
R8-sandown relays- 6.2km ran 27.30 which is only 3s slower than last year so STARTING to get back
R9-burnley half- 1.44.x feet ached for 15km and there was no joy
R10 -Tan relay 17.17 2 s pb

not a good season overall but i did tough it out. Walked in multiple races
(4 times-different reasons but basically soft, coliban couldnt breathe and spewed, brimbank-big hills and couldnt put pressure on messy knees, sandown 5 steps to have some ventolin on the back straight, tan - anderson st 5 m as hip was pretty sore+im soft)
which i havent done previousl

hmmm the effect lingers

..yep half marathons are STOOOPID
i already knew that though..lol

i aso knew that if my hip was sore enough to be limping 4 days out from the half, it would hurt afterwards. yep it is STILL hurting. went for a run yesterday-pulled the session short as it was sore
did 3kms of effort-just needed to make sure i could get through it so i can run and not let the team down mid race this week.. 3.8km around the TAN
anyway water running today 35mins plus 10 laps of swimming(25mt pool)
funny my tummy muscles feel quite worked out today

anyway i have made the EXECUTIVE decision that i will give the hip another two days of recovery so rather than training at the track tomorrow 9i will take the session into the pool

ughghgghgh boring but i know it is the right thing to do

traditionally i dont run the TAN well, but you know what, even tho everyone keeps saying no-one ever runs agood tan after a half, my last two TANS have been crappy so maybe ill pb-who knows!

been to the physio twice about the hip(and the back)
am about to start clinical pilates on monday(40 dollars a pop)

OOPS ive done it again

.seriously i am rather pathetic....
youre not gonna believe this- i have completely lost my keys AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and to make matters worse this time i do NOT have a spare car key. so ive been on PT for 3 hours going to get my car, assuming my keys are at school!!!!!!!!!!! NO-toodle back on hte train, go check out centre management where i lost them last time just in case they have turned up....NOPE

so off to holden to buy keys but have to wait half a day.... ummmm they cost 232 dollars each!!!!!!!!!!!!! and thats uncut
and now i have to get a locksmith to cut a key from NO KEY and he has to try and do something to computerise it with the car o something and hes not sure he can which will mean a tow truck and getting holden to do it...so its $150 for him to come out, then it will be towing plus 65 on top of that. the cheapest i can get out of it is $600, more likely 800

oh and top of that, i hadnt realised when i left my last job that since i was being paid leave that it went past the 1st of july and sicne i didnt get a certificate cos 2 years later i had forgotten, the tax depart ment hav informed me that i didnt decalre it so im going to owe about $1000

now listen, the two are NOT related but please please please NEVER ever ever send me a fkn chain lette. i got sent one hte other day saying if you send this on you will come into money and if you dont, something bad will happen to you on saturday(which was last saturday and i was fine)

but why would someone who is supposedly YOUR friend send you ANYTHING that says if you dont do thi you will have bad luck


oh and the some of the 16 year old girls on my train line literally are white trailer trash- dropping the F-bomb plus C-Bomb on a prolific scale and yelling loudly about drugs and having to get money etc,

yep im in a GREAT mood........................... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

and i want to buy a pool-i cant afford it but i do want one! maybe in 2 or 3 years

..a half, yep im certainly not BUILT for them

..im certainly not built for running half marathons thats for damn sure!!!!!!!!!

in the warm up my flexor was a bit sore which had me worried, but the flexor was okay for most of the race, However, my feet went numb at about 4kms which is rather annoying, but at 6kms things went from bad to worse and the feet started aching, like not in a small way...really badly aching. and this season i appear to have become a walker. i had to walk for 5 steps on about 8 occasion to alleviate some of the pai n. it was REALLY bad.
my own fault- i was wearing near new shoes, but given they are brooks that i have worn for years i thought it would be okay. what i did forget was that sometimes when i start my new brooks my feet go a bit numb til they start to mould to my feet :(
i felt like i was going to cry i was in so much pain. i gave up on the sub 100min pb early on, not nice conditions anyway, windy and i have no ticker and should stik to 800m.

the course was 200m long and i missed my pb (1.43.17) running 1.44.17 or something

shocking shocking run and this WINTER has been a BUST for me. no pbs :( but i am getting close to my times of last year at least

have just been doing homeowork and i am totally tired now. i think i want chips for dinner :)

whoever invented stupid half marathons

oh and the flexor got tired about 16kms
here are my splits : will update later when i get my garmin-its more than 2 m away so too far

..when does racing get easier???

hmmm
i would consider myself a fairly experienced runner. i knew i would be in teh 2nd team(the girl put above me trains waaaaay faster than me) but being competitive i was always wanting to 'beat' her time. ive been having breathing issues for hte last 4 weeks or so(cold weather and trying to keep a cold at bay) anywauy i ran with my puffer and after about 4.5kms had to stop and walk for 5steps and have a'puff' :( only 3 secs slower than lat year so not too bad but wouldve liked to have gone faster, 13.35 in the first lap and i felt gone!!!!! at 3.1km but managed to come home i 13.55 including a walk-so not too bad

HOWEVER
been having some issues this week with my glutes and hip flexors... and im not talking small issues. was limping on wed, couldnt contemplate running thursday and was a maybe today... stu doesnt seem to understand the importance of resting sometimes
:if you cant run the days leadin up you may as well withdraw"
"no, a couple of days rest means i MAY be able to run and i can still withdraw on sunday"

so anti-inflamming at the moment and have been on the tennis ball(which is helping for hte tight glute

sooooooo tired though. 2 x parent teacher nights this week and relays til 8.30 last night for school has left this little black duck EXHAUSTED
and at work tomorrow morning from 8-12(yep leave at 7am-its been a f-er of a weeek