Soundtrack of My Workout: It Was the Right Thing To Do
In the time since deciding I will not be running the New York City Marathon this year I think I’ve gained 5lbs of perspective. Although, I feel like I’m going through a terrible breakup. Focusing on this goal for the majority of the year, talking about it every day, and spending way to much money on gu and hydration tablets has left me feeling a little bit lost.
Emails like this make me sad.
Yet, I’ve figured out some things in the past two weeks.
I thought doing my physical therapy exercises and continuing to train was the right thing. The problem was that my focus was training for 26.2 miles and not on healing injuries. I couldn’t see past the marathon to see what needed to be done.
With marathon training out of the way, I can now see what my body really needs from day to day. I think I’m making progress.
Besides, the marathon will still be here next year. In the meanwhile, I’ve been ellipticising over at Crunch to supplement my short runs. Apparently, not training means making up words for forms of cardio I don’t enjoy.
So here’s what I’m doing to make sure I make it through my workouts on the elliptical, I’m using my playlists and class structures from spinning. It’s helping me stay on that thing for longer than ten minutes. Here’s my current playlist including two cool-down songs:
Soundtrack of My Workout: Ellipticising
Have you ever experienced similar feelings when sidelined by an injury?
YES. Have totally had this downer/bummer of a feeling happen when injured. I’ve had two knee injuries in the past couple of years and while it was ridiculously HARD not to be bummed about not running, it did teach me to embrace other types of cardio AND how to train without injury in the future. It’s so not fun to be injured but at least you’re looking at this with the right viewpoint and you’ll be out of the woods soon, I have no doubt. Hang in there!
Two years ago I was making great progress. Exercising, losing weight, everything was going right. I also started ice skating on my lunch hour 1 day/week. During one noon skate I made a bad move and tore my meniscus on my right knee–I swear I hear it pop.
I had a couple nervous days waiting for swelling and a final surgery/no surgery verdict from my doctor. I was lucky it healed on it’s own with only physical therapy. Still I was so angry because I had been doing SO WELL and had this setback. I wasn’t mad at any one person, just the situation.
The good news is that it is all better now. And I also have since taken ice skating lessons so I know better how to turn and stop
Hope you heal up quickly.
I feel like I went through a bad breakup and I ran my friggin, crappy race. I’m with you- I don’t even want to look at the race photos, I just want to pretend it didn’t happen. Of course I don’t tell anyone this, ha. I’m sorry about the marathon, it’s a loss and you can frame it lots of ways but it can still hurt a bit, right?