Training Log Archive: Anna

GPS was weird on this one so i guessed distance.

Outdoor exercise bike!!! EXCITED THESE ARE OPEN AGAIN! And excited my knee got better super fast! Half of it already has new skin on it, and the swelling's been gone for at least a whole day now, and so biking was 100% comfortable.

I'm trying to keep my hr relatively low and see if that helps me sleep/recover better.

Used the plyo boxes for achilles stuff. Took breaks between hops to keep my hr low.

The rest of my exercises when I got back home.

Easy achilles stuff today. Except also took a day off of ankle eversions bc those were the super tired muscles when I was skating.

Other note: apparently my ferritin's really low (8), which hadn't really registered to me before talking to other people who'd had the same problem. My pcp was completely unconcerned and didn't recommend anything. So I started taking a little bit of iron since I've been prescribed iron before even with better ferritin levels. And am following up w her to see if she can either give some guidance or refer me to someone. (I've had trouble communicating with her about other things also, so I'm crossing my fingers for a referral to the sports dr i really like!)

Felt really warmed up after achilles stuff and a good time to try a run! I didn't feel like I was compensating at all, and I have a good feeling nothing will hurt this time!

Woke up and felt great! (Possibly bc I fell asleep at 11pm last night and slept 9 hours!!!) Knee was more normal feeling than even the most warmed-up points yesterday, and so I did the hard day of my achilles stuff, with the skates version of balance clocks instead of the balance board. And my hops are dramatically improving. Yay!!!

Calf-raise-y balance board things that I really like

This was a pretty good diversion and I skated in the same parking lot without getting kicked out bc it was late enough on NYE! My ankles were tired, which means I’m doing a good job working out my lower legs! :D

Skating a bit was good bc it was a tough day. Gonna vent a bit! Every time I sat down all my knee swelling settled in one position and then made it hard to bend. And I slept crappy bc I’m incapable of sleeping on my back, which is bad for knee scrapes. (I wonder if this is a trainable skill though!) And every time I did something I felt like a sloth (except getting the next steps of my analysis running, which happened faster than expected, which was actually an exciting victory.) Then i slothed my way to the park to have a relaxing time w my friend and meet her dog but I’m only selectively a dog-lover and the dog kept trying to jump on me and she couldn’t make it not and was only slightly winning tug-of-war over the leash, which also made social distancing difficult. (Dogs seem like a lot of work!!!) So not relaxing for me at all, but it was probably good to get my legs moving, and my leg was less stiff after walking and felt pretty good for skating. But now I set up my $40 projector from Walmart that was an impulse purchase that proved super worth it, so I can watch The Good Place and be under blankets at the same time!

Apparently my knee made me not sleep very well, and my lowest-sleeping-hr was ~8bpm higher than normal, and my fitness tracker yelled at me bc it thinks I'm not recovered (but I think I am!).

Well this made my ankles/lower legs tired! So I just went slow. I wore kneepads, and my fancy derby ones are pretty concave so they didn't bother my knee.

Then I got kicked out by a security guy even though the parking lot was SUPER EMPTY. Sigh. Need to find new places. And/or experiment with doing sunday mornings or night.

All exercises incl. hops, which I've progressed to doing on one leg now. The hard exercises (minus hops) on skates. I always get an ego boost balancing on skates instead of my balance board!

Also was able to do a passable modified-single-leg-calf-raise on my calf-raise-y balance board today. That was pretty exciting, since the plantar plate injury has been keeping me from doing lots of the standard achilles progression (and is responsible for me needing to add more sessions!), but being on the board keeps my toe from bending and keeps it from hurting, and I can finally balance well enough on one leg!

Only the easy ones. Might do T's and runner drills when I'm testing out the new skate surface. (Then tomorrow hopefully actual skate day!!!)

Social skating. Was actually really fun, except I was trying to one-legged weave down a hill, and I slipped and fell on something and then did this!


Which I'm currently avoiding cleaning but should really go and clean...

pt warmup!

The rest of PT. She wasn't super worried about the recent achilles pain and she just said wait for it to get better! Worked on jumps (really, hops) today. It was tiring, and it's also been a really super long time since I comfortably did anything involving the ball of my foot! But I could do things this time that I couldn't last time, so that's some really good progress. Also working keeping my knees in a stable position, and it's nice that there are mirrors there and someone to point out what to be careful about!

ALSO she said next time I could try the alter g to help me ease into running!!!!

Hard exercises, in the evening. Did the t's and the single-leg runner things on skates.