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angelak ([personal profile] angelak) wrote2008-12-18 08:07 am
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Knee Reports

Reporting on the knees today...
They feel pretty good. Sure, I haven't ran in like 2 weeks... (yikes!)
But I maintain that the Yoga intensively and then adding the running back alongside it in a bit to make sure I don't mess with any of the healing is the right way to approach it. I know by now to seriously listen to the gut instinct on these ones. No matter how much I want to hit the pavement (which is impossible right now anyway thanks to the crummy weather) I know to take it slow and ease back in with a different approach. Time constraints make this hard too.

I also know that probably just re-engaging muscles in my Quads that had allowed themselves (because the body is awesome like this) to atrophy a tiny bit, might just be taking the stress off the tendons themselves. I know my quads are getting stronger. It's only been 2 weeks. Also - I know my muscles are obviously being stretched intensively for 90 minutes a day. I tried to stretch for 10 minutes a day before on my own - I'll be honest; I suck at stretching.

Anyhow, I think my point was that it feels... alarmingly close to normal right now. Give me till the end of 2008 and maybe I will feel like a normal human? And in which case I have several options. I know I will be practicing Yoga for the whole of 2009 - because I have a year membership and because I know I need this. But to what degree throughout the year, that is the question. I can hardly even imagine what my body will be like in December of 2009. Hopefully 100% tendon-healed, strong, healthy, and happy - no?

Jim last night was very excited to hear me being positive about something. I didn't realize it. I was talking about trying to do 2 sessions of Yoga in one day to see how that felt. I mean, I see other people do it occasionally. How would that FEEL I wonder? It'd be 3 hrs of Yoga in 1 day... hm. It bears some contemplation.

:P And now onto some real work. I want to close this shit out. The life of tech support. *Finger twirls* Oh oh, but hey... if I get moving I will buy myself coffee. That's my motivation here... and the fact I like to do my job because if I don't I feel like a crapbag...

-Angela