Thanks for the nice comments. I seriously am not a complainer and even tho my coach may think i really love emailing and talking to her like 4x day i prefer to be under the radar. So thanks Jen for your concern, thinking i may jump. I can say that sometimes your cognitive brain KNOWS you are overreacting, but you are still upset and you cant shake it. That is scary. It made me really feel for women that get real PMS or have other mental health challenges. I cant put my finger on it for sure, but i know that i spent some time talking to the best husband out there and looking at the pressure i put on myself and trying to look, objectively, at my motivations for why i do Tri.
It's so easy to get caught up in " better, stronger, faster " and we are fooling ourselves if we dont often look externally for that "magic" to get us there. I know i need to keep on looking internally and trust myself to make decisions, maybe even mid-lunge, about the workout and not forge on thru just to GET ER DONE. I am still working on not beating myself up on this but as we know, how many of us in our professional life have said " Do as i say, not as i do." I have an uncanny ability to guide and coach others with physical therapy and biomechanical challenges, but when it comes to me, that logic often goes right out the window into a snow bank.
So as i said, the sun has risen. I am fine. Life is fine. My adductor is doing better, i can walk now and my PT said its just a strain and she gave it some MFR and TLC. ( Myofascial Release) and you all know what TLC is. You dont actually have trigger points in the belly of your adductors so foam rolling more than the insertion medial to your knee hurts like hell and i found that out after 1 second.
Other than that hubby worked a bit late last night Valentine's night, and we had celebrated sunday so i was expecting nothing. He walked in and brought me 12 red roses, raspberries, and a great bar of 70% dark chocolate by BT Mc Elrath, a local Chocolatier. That is the kind i go "oh that's too $$ i will buy the lindt." so what a treat. He also brought sushi ( grocery store) but still the thought that counts. I had eaten. and so he said "Oh good, i wanted the sushi!" Ha, classic.
Again, thanks for your support and I do mean it when i say that even tho i dont know some of you, i didnt bat an eye when i wrote that blog bc I knew i needed some other people at my pity party. Party over, back to postive thinking:) Hope i can return the favor if you need me.
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I fully believe that our blogs should be used for those moments when we want to have a pity party! Life isn't a bowl of sunshine every single day & there is no point in pretending like it is. We can complain to friends and family adn force them to listen or we can blow off our steam here where people have the choice whether or not to read :)
Seriously though - who can't smile with the warm sun we've been having! I know my attitude has changed in the last couple days!
Woo Hoo!! Glad you feel better. I knew you would, although like I said I don't know you hardly. :) lol
Here's to a great week for you. :) Oh and your hubby is way nicer than me. :) Just ask my wife. :)
Glad you are feeling better. That chocolate sounds really good. I didn't follow all that with trigger points and fascia (some day I am really going to take an anatomy and a physiology class) but I'm glad that the TLC, rollering (rolling?) and the trigger pointing helped.
That chocolate sounds amazing. Sure to be a source of future trouble for me.
Glad you are feeling better. This sounds like a little short term injury and maybe with all of the stress you are feeling you'll discover it was well timed.
You should never apologize for how you feel, we all have those moments and they are part of life! (And, erm, a bigger part of IM training - ha!) So glad youa re feeling better.
I like Molly's comment and she is right, it is your blog and that is how you felt - so that is fair! but no one is happier (maybe Rich) that you are feeling better than me!
Yeah! Glad the sun has come up. Isn't it so weird how we KNOW what's going on and KNOW we are down in the dumps, but no matter what we do, we just can't turn it around before the time is right?
Mmmm, that chocolate sounds right up my alley. Scrumptious!
:-) Have a great week!
It is fine because I had a pity party of my own at the same time as you and now I am "back on the wagon". These days, even weeks happen. I searched my soul and my heart last week about why we do this and why we put so much pressure on ourselves as if life is nto hard as it is. But we love it and we love the challenge.
awww rich is such a great hubby. never apologize or thank us... we are glad to have you in our lives. keep smiling julia :)
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