First day back with Liberdy today. It was intense. Before the session I walked 2.75 miles on the treadmill with 90% of it being at an incline. It wasn't much compared to running; 5 minutes of warm up at 3.5 mph and 40 minutes at 3.8 mph. My right achilles started to hurt about 1.5 miles in, but I worked through it. I stretched very well before the walk and also very well after the walk. After the training I stretched even more. Right now, I have ice on both my right and my left achilles and I have taken Advil. Of course I was worried when my achilles started to hurt while walking, especially because it wasn't close to running and if my achilles hurts while walking I can only imagine what it is going to feel like while running....
Gam Zeh Y'aavor. The translation from Hebrew to English is, "this too will pass." The pain will pass.
It felt good to get back into a pseudo routine. It felt good to sweat and feel like I was pushing myself. Liberdy is being awesome about my limitations, and even though I feel like a total loser when something hurts or I can't do something I used to, she says that we are going to work through it. I trust her 100% and know she is looking out for me and doesn't want me to get hurt. I was drenched by the end of the session.
Last week when I couldn't sleep one night I turned to On Demand. 99% of the movies were crap, but there was a documentary about Lindsey Vonn. I'm a huge skiing fan and have always liked her as a skier. The documentary was awesome and had a lot of focus on her workout routine --- both during the ski season and during the off season. Pretty impressive and made me like Lindsey Vonn even more. Her core routine is intense and we incorporated some of her core exercises into my routine tonight. It was awesome. And, while I didn't do the exercises nearly as well as Lindsey Vonn does them --- and I didn't do nearly as many of them as Lindsey Vonn does --- it felt amazing.
The process is going to be slow, but I am back.
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