Week of August 24

I can hardly believe the summer has passed.

Two. More. Weeks.

Getting more nervous than ever.
GULP.

Monday

Morning HIIT.
Biking into work has taken a backseat for various reasons, mostly because I've enjoyed sleeping in and still working out in the morning. Plus, who wants to work out, shower, then get sorta sweaty again on the way to work? Not me. It's been a real biking killer.

But that's ok.

Tuesday

Nothing. Had surgery class, which yes, was for me and not for the surgeon ;-).
Basically, I learned a little more about that day, got all my prescriptions, what medical equipment I'll need and essentially got made a little more nervous for the day. I was told some people cancel last minute and I totally understand why.

Had every intention of doing hip and core, but I didn't. Oh well.

Wednesday

Morning HIIT.

Dropped prescriptions off at Target, since it's the closest pharmacy. Enrolled in their text messaging notification and already regret it, as they keep texting me and it has nothing to do with my prescriptions being ready. I also bought a bagged salad that was totally gross, as in spoiled gross. So, had to return that.

Hip and core strengthening before bedtime. I'm really over this. That fact does not bode well for physical therapy.

Thursday

While walking Jeff in the morning, I saw a perfect rainbow - it was a complete bow and I walked towards it, I smiled, because I saw a second arc start to appear. I knew it was going to be a good day.

The way too long of a run from Saturday has left my hip in quite a bit of unhappiness, and I don't really want to take any inflammatories with surgery coming up (even though I totally have another week, I'm just going to be an overachiever and say no meds two weeks out). With this, I've decided to stop most of the HIIT - found some "beginner" videos are are much more low impact, although not nearly as fun, but I don't want my hip to be so inflamed I get yelled at. But I guess if they do, I'll be all drugged up by then that I won't really care, right?

Friday

Another "lazy" day - no workout, but I have been managing to get in 10,000 steps every day, so I don't feel as guilty.

Saturday

My hip was bothering me so much that I ended up taking just a little bit of Aleve. It's funny how amazing an NSAID seems when you really need it.

Made lemon poppy seed protein balls for snacks during recovery. They are quite tasty.

Sunday 

Looking back, I feel like I suddenly "gave up" on trying to keep working out up until the surgery. The disastrous, almost 7 mile run really screwed things up for me, and I really have been hurting a lot. So much so that I haven't even wanted to bike. And I hate that, because I know I won't be able to do it much longer. I'll probably end up getting a trainer so I can at least ride through the winter inside. I sort of feel silly for getting the damn thing now that I haven't ridden it as much as I thought I would. The truth is ... I just miss running. Running is so much more low maintenance than cycling. If anyone thought I would become a cyclist, well, joke's on you. I will always be a runner.

The coming week's plan: get some cardio in, not sure if it will be running (trying to save the hip for Saturday), probably elliptical and some biking.