cruise

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?

Summer?

After 10:30AM today (MATHFINALEW)… it will be summer for me! I should tell you what is next on my agenda (besides a few races/maybe a tri)

A cruise with my family. I will turn 19  while in the middle of the ocean, on a boat. Kinda cool. Kinda not cool.

Wait.. not cool? Correct. Last year I went on a cruise with my brother, Bill. (Actually his name is William, and yes, our last name is Smith, so that would make my brother WILL SMITH!)

Anyways.. that is my broski Will Smith.

 He graduated from PSU and I graduated from high school. Our graduation gift from our parents was to go a cruise to Mexico & the Grand Cayman Islands. Well first of all 1 weird thing that happened..

Everyone thought we were on our honeymoon.

Happy couple? No.. BRO & SIS!

So that was awk. We shared a room and our room cleaner was like “Mr. & Mrs. Smith!!!” then we told him we were brother and sister and he was like “Ohhhh should I separate your bed?” Hahaha.

But that wan’t the bad thing.

The bad thing was that I was sick. The whole cruise. Sea sick to the max.

People say that you don’t even feel like you are on a boat. Wrong for me. Not only did I feel like I was on a boat the whole time, I felt like I was going to puke. I was dizzy and I was walking around lopsided! Not cool. I am afraid of that happening again! I took some medicine and it made me feel worse. I was a drugged zombie with the munchies!

I was afraid to get seriously ill but I remembered a really great scripture:

“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”. Matthew 28:20

Besides that issue, the cruise was awesome!

Snorkeling with sting rays anyone?!

Or swimming with dolphins in Mexico. :]

So that is what’s up next for my summer! I will have to do a post on what I am doing this whole summer (WORK).

Now I am off to study and take my last final.

Have you ever been on a cruise? Did you get sea sick?