Interesting week. The weather continued to go up and down and sideways - my team's traditional Tuesday track workout was postponed a day to accommodate a snowstorm that then decided to be late. *sigh*. I hate late people and late storms. The result was a workout that was run gingerly and carefully on a track half-covered in snow and ice. I now feel qualified to train up north, should I ever need to.
Thursday I went in for nerve testing (an "EMG/NCV test"), to confirm that my nerve/back problem is just a nerve being pressed, and not underlying damage. Pretty interesting stuff actually - first they put a bunch of electrodes on me, and pulsed a current (sort of like "stim", but a stronger shock), while tracking how quickly my muscles responded.
The second phase was to insert needles into certain muscles, and then have me tense those muscles while a machine tracked the nerve activity. When I flexed my muscle, the machine would make a cool staticky noise. As someone who is both a geek about medical/physiology stuff and an industrial music/power noise fan, I enjoyed the experience a lot more than the doctors thought I would.
I never claimed to be normal.
I was a bit sore afterwards, so it was good that I had Friday scheduled as a recovery day. Saturday I hopped into a low-key 5K - my first race since July, and my first road race since last June. It went really well - despite being rusty, I managed to pace the race well, and finish very strong. The course was longer than 5K, but whatever - a PR wasn't on the table anyway. I was just there to race and see what happened, and it felt good to be back. Damn good.
Sunday, it snowed again. F'ing snow.
Dailies
Monday: In the morning, felt horrible, so just slept. Felt better in the afternoon, so did a yoga class and then some foam rolling at night.
Tuesday: In the morning, injury rehab work and 8 miles easy running (7:59 pace), followed by 1250 yards of easy swimming. Foam rolling at night.
Wednesday: Injury rehab work, 9 miles running, including a very cautious and icy track workout of 1600, 1200, 3x800 (split 6:42, 4:44, 3:05, 2:59, 3:00), followed by 2000 yards of easy swimming. Foam rolling at night.
Thursday: In the morning, a yoga class and 10.5 miles of running, split as 4.5 miles before yoga (8:34 pace) and 6 miles after (7:58 pace), and then some foam rolling. EMG/Nerve conduction testing in the afternoon.
Friday: Injury rehab work and 1750 yards of easy swimming in the morning. Foam rolling in the afternoon.
Saturday: In the morning, 8.5 miles, including a "5K" (actually about 3.2-ish miles) in 20:24, followed by 2750 yards of swimming. Foam-rolling in the afternoon.
Sunday: In the morning, injury rehab work, 14 miles easy (8:12 pace), and 2250 yards of swimming. Yin yoga and foam rolling at night.
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