Pain and Training

Tour de Cure is tomorrow. I am really excited for it except for the fact that I have managed to hurt myself. I went for a run and to yoga Wednesday night and felt that my left knee was bothering me. I went for my long run on Thursday. I left my car with the intention of running for 2 hours and 15 minutes but within the first 15 minutes, I knew that may be a stretch. I was having knee pain. I thought that at the 40 minute mark that I probably should go back to the car but I didn't. I kept running. At the hour mark, I was in pain and decided that I was done and needed to go back to the car - funny though, instead of walking back I ran. I am regretting that now. I have been limping around for the past 2 days and am a little worried about what I did. Right now after two days of heating, icing, heating, stretching and resting (yes, I have taken two days off in a row to ensure that I am not using it), it is feeling better. I hope tomorrow will be ok. I have decided to take it one mile at a time and, if it doesn't feel good enough to do the 100 miles, then I don't do the 100 miles - I do what I can. I have to think of the big picture (Ironman) instead of the little picture (tomorrow). I am hoping that I will be up and literally running by next Wednesday since next Sunday is the Lake Placid Half Marathon.

On another note. Lila (my niece) participated in her first science fair this week. She blew away the teacher and the other students with her detailed project on bones and the deer. She was so proud of her project and I was so proud of her. Poor child may be taking after me.

Cooper's 2nd birthday was today. His party was a lot of fun. His diaper was so full of water after he jumped in the pool that his diaper was down around his knees (see picture below). It reminded Joe and me about the first triathlon we did where this man wore his bike shorts in the pool and at the end was running with the padding around his knees (by the way, he beat Scott in that triathlon which was even funnier - we haven't let him forget it either). Happy Birthday Cooper!

I will let you know how the Tour goes. I hope for the best.

May Stats - UGH!!! Allergies

Here are my stats for May - they suck!!! I have been sidelined twice during the month of May because of my allergies. (It has been a really bad allergy season here in the Northeast) Due to my allergies, I have not done as much swimming as I wanted to because when I am feeling allergic the chlorine in the pool generally kills me. Plus, with this sinus infection for the past week, I haven't been able to workout for 4 days in a row and then really light workouts for two days in a row. 8 weeks left and I am going for it!! I have faith in my next few weeks. Everything will be great!

Run distance: 46.4 miles
Run time: 8 hours 13 minutes
(FYI - my average pace was a 10:37 which is really fast for IM training)
Bike distance: 293.2 miles
Bike time: 21 hours 41 minutes
Swim distance: 6.7 miles (yuck)
Swim Time: 4 hours 29 minutes
Yoga - 1 hour
Total workout distance: 346.3 miles
Total workout minutes: 35 hours 23 minutes
Total calories burned: 19,034