Diagnosis

Tendonitis and IT Band Syndrome.   No surgery required.  Yay!

So, how is it treated?

Ice, ice and more ice. Followed with stretching and topical anti-inflammatory cream. 

But..but..Doc...I teach yoga..I stretch all the time. 

"Apparently not the muscle that needs stretching."  Lol.  Love it!  A Doc with a sense of humor ;)

I can go back to running.  However I'm told that I need to 'back off" when I feel pain.

So my plans are to go out Thursday night and hit the park.   It will be one week since I last ran.  I reworked my training plan to incorporate this injury.  I need to do 1.75 miles or more to stay on plan...body permitting.  

Yes running mentor ..I still plan on Fargo! ;)

Everyone keep your fingers crossed!

Can you feel the love?

As promised, here are some pics of my office that my co-workers enthusiastically decorated for my birthday.

 

Starting to Panic

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.

It was just a day.

So today was my first day back at work after vacation.  I knew I was screwed when I saw the black balloons from the parking lot.  I wanted to turn right around and go home and pretend I had another week of vacation. 

But I sucked it up and went inside.  Yes, it was as bad as I was expecting.  I took pictures on my phone but I, techie guru that I am, am having issues getting from phone on to the blog.  So stay tuned.

Yoga was pushed to tomorrow night, so I went to the gym tonight.  My left knee has been really bothering me when I run.  (Do NOT even go to the "getting old" joke!). 

Running seems to really aggravate it as yesterday morning I went out (yes running mentor, I did the run on my birthday!), but it hurt...alot.  Needless to say I was swallowing Aleve and Tylenol all day and sitting with the ice pack last night.   I made an appointment with the doctor for next Monday - soonest I could get in. 

I don't want to lose my cardio, so I was on the Elliptical cross trainer tonight.  I did 3.2 miles (a 5K).  Leg didn't bother me hardly at all, certainly not like it did while running.  WTF??  Will see how the week progresses and how it goes with my yoga classes on Tuesday and Wednesday night. I need my body for yoga...so I need to coddle this knee along. 

Other than that...it was just a day. 

Peace Out!