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Week 11: Injured, Ugghhh. Mar. 9-15
By Cindy | March 18, 2008
The week was going great until Saturday. The culprit–not a run, not a weight lifting exercise–A Little People Dinosaur! I was coming down the stairs with a load of laundry when at the last step, my foot made contact with Dinosaur, ankle twisted under, and pain! It was one of those moments in which it played slow motion in my mind as it happened. I knew. By the evening, I couldn’t place any weight on the foot. Most of the Sunday was spent immobile. Hopefully, all my steps to assuage the injury will lead to a quicker recovery time. I iced, compressed and elevated the ankle. It wasn’t as sever as I first thought it might be, so time shall tell. As for running, I tried a little in place and it started hurting quickly. I will need to focus on another mode of cardiovascular exercise this week. I guess it’s time to hit the pool, definitely not my favorite activity, but a nice alternative to running.
Before getting hurt, I had a pretty active week:
Sunday: Strength training on the stability ball. 40 minute full body routine.
Monday: Rest.
Tuesday: 3 Hours on the Golf course. *Grandma kept the kids for us and it was a great day of freedommmm. Amateur golfers and interval training go very well together. Chasing and searching for a little golf ball is quite the challenge. Strength Training routine with the stability ball in the evening (40 minutes).
Wednesday: My long run for the week at 6 miles. The ending was difficult, but I kept going and it felt so good to finish. I ran around the neighborhood and enjoyed the beautiful 70 degree weather!
Thursday: Completed a Yoga DVD for 50 minutes. Performed all the LOST routine exercises. I should have had an exercise for Sun and Jin Soo, but alas, you got off easy this week. I was afraid it would be a complicated routine, but it actually turned out to be evenly spaced and a good picker upper! Give it a try. I’ll have a new one this week for LOST fans. Anyway, here was the breakdown of the exercises:
- Jack: 1 set of 10 Jumping Jacks
- Kate: 3 sets of 20 kicks ( I completed one for each side)
- Sawyer: 1 minute speed run in place
- John: 1 set of 10 tricep dips
- Sayid: 7 sets of 1 minute speed rope jumps
- Hurley: 1 set of Trunk Twists
- Michael: 1 set of Star Jumps
Friday: Two Miler with speed intervals on the second mile. I sprinted up the long uphill of the final mile. I used the mailboxes as markers alternating sprints/light jog from mailbox to mailbox.
Saturday: Dinosaur puts me out of running commission! Yikes, I hope it heals quickly because I really want to run in the Country Music Marathon come the end of April!
What do you do when you’ve injured your foot? Do you have an exercise that somewhat replaces your routine?
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Good luck getting on the mend; I twisted my ankle this morning on my run, but managed to keep it nice and loose after a mile or so and it seems okay now.
If the swelling doesn’t go away, you might want to take some ibuprofen to reduce the swelling while you ice it.
Ouch! Sorry to hear about the accident and hope you’re up and running again soon!
Oh man! OUCH! I hope it gets better soon! I could easily seeing me do something like that one day. I’m constantly having to watch my step from all the Little People toys and Legos all over the floor!
Ouch is right! Congrats on a great week too!
I guess it depends on how bad you injured your foot. Maybe you can still do some floor exercises (lifts, crunches, pushups, etc.) Maybe even some kicks if you hold on to something when you are on that foot?
Hope you get better soon!
OH NO!!!!!! There is nothing more frustrating than an injury, especially at the hands, or legs, of a dinosaur!!! I’m sending you some “get well vibes”.
If you can, I’d say do some deep water running. It will keep up your cardio level and give you a great low impact workout.
When I was unable to run, I did quite a bit of swimming, and it was less exciting for sure…but not as bad as I had anticipated. Try it.
Oh no… not the purple dinosaur! You make sure you REST your ankle and ease back into the running. If it hurts it probably needs more time to heal - pain is a way for our body to tell our brains to STOP!
I used to have twisty ankles and found swimming is a good (low impact) way to strengthen the ankle as it heals.
Good luck for the rest of the week… Im sure you will find a way to get your excersise in.
first? OH NO!!!! that just sucks (no other word) and Ive been there.
what did I do? rest.
I know it’s hard but I just viewed it as my body saying HEY LISTEN TO ME AND GIMME A BREAK—-so I did until it healed.
M.
Hope it heals quickly!
I’m so sorry to hear about your ankle! Ouch! Nothing’s more frustrating than having an injury when you want to train for an event!!!
I would have to agree with others in that rest is probably the best thing you can do for your mending ankle. Then maybe move on to non-impact exercises.
I hope you have a quick and smooth healing time!
Adding my OUCH! to the others. Hope you heal quickly!
Would you be able to ride a bike?
Thank you for the well wishes. I know rest is the best thing and it’s been my most successful endeavor. Hey, an excuse to do nothing? I have been able to do my strength training routines and the air bicycling (pretend play with the kiddos does wonders sometimes).
I was finally getting into the groove of running more regularly during the week, so that’s what’s been frustrating.
Wow! Your exercise routine is awesome! Hope your ankle heals quickly and you’re back at it quicker than quick.