I realized the other day that the Fargo 5K is five weeks away. Considering that I haven't trained consistently for a couple of weeks, that my left knee is swollen and I can't run on it without cringing in pain, this 5K is giving me much consideration.
My trainer told me to skip the gym this weekend and not even do upper body as I had requested or suggested. He's only been here a month and knows me well. He knows that once inside the gym, I would "test" the knee and do some sort of cardio on it. Smart man. And as he, or someone pointed out to me, we use our lower body to stabilize ourselves even when we do upper body routines.
So, no gym this weekend. Given the fact that I'm headed to Minneapolis next weekend, I won't get any gym time in then either. There goes my health insurance discount for the month of September.
All that aside, my main worry is yoga. Though I made it through classes last week, I'm hoping that this injury isn't something that will sideline my yoga (teaching) for a while. Given that I just spent quite a bit of money on advertising and my classes are starting to have 10-15+ people consistently every night, it would really suck to have to postpone for surgery or teach on crutches, albeit possible to instruct without demonstrating or doing the poses.
This is really beginning to suck.
And of course, I'm getting the teasing and ribbing about "everything falling apart when I turned 50."
I, personally, do not find it amusing.
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