Training While Injured

Workout:  1.5 miles easy - don't judge until you read the post.

By reading the title it is pretty safe to assume that I am injured.  I have had some crazy knee injury for almost 3 years now that doctors can't figure out what is going on.  It is extremely frustrating to deal with this.  Even more frustraing that I have spent hundreds of dollars on rehab that didn't do jack squat!  

Okay, so I had been training hard core for  a Turkey Trot I am running down in Evansville, IN.  And by hard core I mean I found an advanced 5K training program that I pretty much followed to a T!!!  The only thing I didn't do was have my long run be 8-9 miles.  What??  It's a freaking 5K!!  So, I was doing awesome, feeling great, totally ready to go....and then it happened.  My knee started hurting.  Like really really bad:((  So, I did the smart thing and backed off.  I decided to rest my knee.  

Now, when most people have an injury they can still "train".  Hop on the elliptical or ride the bike.  Take a spin class or maybe even swim.  There are options.    There just aren't options for me; now that we live pretty much in the middle of nowhere.  So for me training while injured means I don't do anything.  At. All.  I've been stretching, and rolling, and I bought some resistance bands, but that has been the extent of any activity.

While Orlando watches cartoons in the morning I try to get some band work in.  Here I am trying to do some butt lifts, but Orlando wouldn't stop kissing me.  It was cute at first, and then I just wanted him to leave me alone so I could count and not say "thank you" every 3 seconds.  Counting and saying thank you is actually quite difficult.  

After 4 full days of rest I decided I was ready to go!  But then I got sick.  Really really sick!!  And so I ended up taking 2 more days off.  And then something crazy happened.  CRAZY!!!!!  I got a mysterious injury.  For realz!!

My ankle, or whatever part of my foot that giant inflamation is located, started to hurt.  It hurt so bad I could hardly move my foot.  I decided to go to the doctor because I was kinda freaked out.  It turns out to be tendon inflamation....nothing serious, but I have no clue what aggrivated it.  Ugh!!  I feel like all that hard work went totally down the drain.  I haven't run more than 2 miles in the past 2 weeks!!

I'm sure I am going to be completely gased out for the race on Thursday.  I will probably be huffing and puffing by mile 1.    We shall see how absolutely no training while injured works out for me in just a few days!