Week 16

This week I tried to keep up the momentum of last week. I also started having panic attacks about my race. People are coming to cheer me on! What if I don't make it! What if I don't make the swim cut off time! I'll let all those people down! Gah!

Monday - Rest Day
Much needed. My psoas was still hurting though at this point I didn't know whether it was psoas or groin. NOT wanting it to be groin.

Tuesday - Swim (1600 yards)
This was supposed to be 2000 yards but I forgot my little cheat sheet and had a vague idea that I was supposed to swim 50 something laps. Whoops. Felt ok with the psoas and all since I don't really use it swimming until...I did that frog stroke and kicked my legs out and was all OUCH! Rushed to the chiropractor and realized I was in trouble as I tried to run to catch the bus and it was P.A.I.N.F.U.L. By the time I got to the chiro it was all the way up my right side and approaching my back! Turned out it WAS the psoas and guess who got it rubbed out? Shit. There is nothing like getting your canary massaged by some girl in a doctors office. It hurt so bad I thought I was gonna die. I was whimpering. Then Dr. Rabbetz comes in and says, 4 months after I have been seeing him twice a week since my accident, you can do whatever you want you just have to make sure you're really stretching after your workouts. Um...I think it woulda been a good idea to tell me that 16 weeks ago. Iced my girl when I got home.

Wednesday - Track Marker Set
Really nervous about running because of the whole strained psoas thing. I made sure that I warmed up and then stretched before Yi and I started. Then the most amazing thing happened. Yi and I ran the fastest we ever have and added an extra lap and a half to our marker set from November. We had to run around the track for 30 minutes and count our laps. In November we did 10 3/4 laps and this night we did 11 1/2! Holy crap! We actually ran a sub 1o! Our average was 9:37 minutes per mile. AWESOME! We felt really great and both agreed that we could've run some more. Then we hit Kezar pub and had the most amazing chicken tortilla soup and split a BLT sans mayo. Then I had to fast until...

Thursday - Chirokinetics Sports Nutrition/Diagnostic Thing
I woke up at 5am to make it to Walnut Creek for my appointment with Dr. Scott. Today I would be doing some testing to learn what my BMR is, how my body metabolizes food, what my body fat percentage is plus more. This would all prep me for an eating plan geared for all my training to make sure I am getting enough of all the stuff that will make me perform awesome. I got there and had to pee in a cup and give blood. Then I had a little nutritional intake meeting. Then I had a break so I could eat. Did some shopping at Target, went back and had to pee in a cup again and give a sample of saliva. I had to fill a little cup up about a 1/4 of the way and the whole time I thought, I will never be able to meet that line! Took me a 1/2 hour.

Friday
Skipped the workout and went to see Cloverfield with Ian. AWESOME. Loved it.

Saturday - Bike Marker Set
Met Yi down and Canada Road to do our 15 mile marker set. It was COLD. So cold. There was frost. Ugh. I didn't improve on my time at all but was stoked about my average per mile speed of 16.6. I usually consider myself a 12-14 mph person so this was good news. Then Yi and I did a little 20 minute run.

Sunday - Swim (2600 yards)
I needed to really get down to business and get some yardage in. I set out to do the 2000 yard workout but don't forget! My pool has lanes of 100 feet aka 33.3 yards. So my 2000 yard workout ended up being 2600. Kick ass! I wanted to run after that but preferred my couch. I went over to Holly's later, for a slumber party, to eat pizza and watch Rock of Love 2 in Oakland. I had a 10:15am follow up appointment at Chirokinetics and her place is half way.

Ok this blog is boring. I promise. Pictures next week!