Listening to Our Bodies!

Well, apparently my rear hurts more than originally thought and is DEMANDING that I take a rest!

Jen decided to move my hard run to the weekend and go for just an easy run yesterday. I went to Physical Therapy and was feeling ok. Went to the gym, hopped on the treadmill, and tried to run at a leisurely pace. It hurt of course, but sometimes things need just a few minutes to try to "work it out."

So I decided 10 min at the point that I'm at and if it doesn't ease up, I will quit. At 10 min, it was still sharp pain, so I backed off and tried to walk it out for a few thinking that would be better than nothing, but nope... I'd already re-irritated it and it said enough is enough!

And I LISTENED!

This whole situation is like some sort of calling to me or something because I swear to you that this past Saturday, on my way to do the run that ultimately did my hip in, I was catching up on blogs and had just finished reading Kerrie's blog about her deciding to take the day off. I wrote a comment about how I still was trying to figure out the difference between pain I should push through and pain that means I should stop.

Well, it's like my body interpreted the message as some sort of assignment, and it's now teaching me the difference! :)

At least for me, I have a hard time with it. As athletes, we know that there will be pain associated with the amount and type of training that we do. We use words like "Hurt Box" and "Suffer" as a part of our daily vocabulary!

So when is enough enough and when are we wussing out???

Well, I don't know if anyone else out there can really explain it, but I guess you just KNOW.

And yesterday I just knew. I knew when I hopped off that treadmill that I'd un-done all I'd tried to recover from physical therapy in just a short 10 min run. So yesterday, I spent the rest of the day limping around as my hip was "stuck." I made a decision then and there and emailed Jen that I needed some time to let that tissue heal!

She completely agreed and so today I went back to PT and then instead of trying to see if that "worked", I'm giving it 48 hours rest. At least from running.

I MAY hop on the trainer tonight and try to easily spin it out to keep some motion happening in that area. But then again, I may just let it completely relax for today and try that tomorrow.

Hopefully, after some rest and another PT appt. on Friday morning, I can ease back into some running this weekend and be all READY to go for St. Anthony's next weekend!!

I'm pretty sure that that's how this will go. The rational part of me isn't worried about it and knows that there's really nothing serious going on. The Crazy Kellye is of course stressing about not being able to do the final prep before the race. But, fortunately the rational Kellye is winning at the moment! :)

And it's funny how incompetent I feel as a Body listener as an athlete because when I went through infertility with Cooper, I felt like an EXPERT!

I learned to sense every single moment that my body was performing any sort of process. And it was because it was something that I wanted so badly and therefore REALLY listened closely. So, I've got to build some confidence in that area, and I definitely feel that this is a step towards that.

Because during races, training, recovery, life in general... we've got to be prepared to listen!

I know a lot of people in this area who did Ironman Arizona that didn't really have the race they were hoping for. It's so tough training all winter for something that you go out and the heat hits you literally for the very first time! I think a lot of them got a lesson in listening this weekend, and I think everyone did a pretty good job with it!

So, I'm going to be fine as is everyone else! Rest for me and thanks for all the well wishes for my Rear from all of you guys!!

K :)