College Cross Country

An injury

I have noticed that sometimes often runners get injured. I am now in the “injured club.” I went out for a run on Tuesday morning in a local park to run 7 miles as prescribed by my cross country training plan for college. (This is a picture before a 5k)

The park has a trail that is a big 1 mile circle around a lake. I ran 5 miles and my right knee started to ache so I switched directions so see if maybe the circular turns were bugging me. It hurt even worse after I switched directions so I limped to my vehicle and went home to ice.

(another old picture but you get the idea)

On Tuesday I could hardly walk. I wore a knee brace the whole day that I had form a former injury on the opposite leg. I remember this pain from last summer.

I was about 1.5 months from completing my first marathon and my knee started to hurt and hurt and hurt. I didn’t run the marathon 😦

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Anyways, I emailed my coach and he said to rest it (duh) and cross train for a few days. He also said that if it doesn’t feel better in a few day then I should go to my doctor. The problem is that I will be on a cruise in a few days and my knee doesn’t seem to be feeling much better.

So cross training it is! I always feel bad for people when they have an injury but I just try to take mine in stride and keep a positive attitude. What is the point in complaining? I’m going to enjoy more time off of running.. especially while I am on a cruise 😉 (unless my knee feels any better) I did some of this yesterday:

Making weird faces and swimming 😉

Any ideas as to why my knee suddenly hurts like crazy?!

How do you deal with injuries?

Updates: college & ultra marathon

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. 1 Corinthians 1:10

I think a lot of Christians often fight about little things in the Church and in life. It makes me sad because we should all be united and working towards one goal together!

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Time for some updates: I won’t be doing the ultra marathon. But here are some pictures from the trail run…

To be honest I am kind of relieved to not be running this ultra because I don’t feel prepared at all. Here is why I’m not running it:

Yesterday my cross country coach emailed me (and other new girls on the team) my first week of summer runs for Seton Hill. I asked him if I could do the trail run and seriously, he kind of freaked out on me. Great. He actually made me sound dumb for even asking.

That makes me sad. My first thought was, “Well, I should have chose to go to OVU for college because surely a Chritsian coach wouldn’t have treated me like that.” But I am a naturally sensitive person so I’m not going to stress out about it.

I am actually going to take more time off of running before I start my summer cross country training. My body needs rest and I don’t care what my coach says. Sorry dude. I’ll let ya’ll know when I do decide to start running and what the coach has all of us doing. This week is only slow runs and pretty short runs. (The longest being 6 miles). So i’m not worried about skipping them. He also has us running 7x a week, which is weird to me cause I love my rest days.

On a positive note, it is supposed to be 80* in Pittsburgh today! Yee-Haw!!!!

Ever have one of those “crap what did I get myself into moments?!”