Gotta love Finding Nemo.
Today my foot is feeling a little bit better. I don't feel pain in every step, so we're making progress.
Decided to swim tonight to do some cardio. Ended up swimming a mile. Note: It took me FOUR times as long to swim a mile than it does to run one, but it is much more difficult! Considering I haven't swam in quite some time, it is pretty impressive I made it that far. I will contribute it to my running legs and cardio endurance ;) My arms were dying though. It's funny because when I swam in college, I got most of my power from my arms vs. my legs... and now the opposite is true. Dee claims I'm truly a runner now because of that fact!
Today I was reminded why Swimming > Running.
1) You can't tell you're sweating.
2) You don't smell like sweat when you finish. (You just smell like chlorine which is much more pleasant).
3) You get to float and glide through the water.
4) I felt more "cleansed" after swimming. No, not because I was in a big pool of water, but I feel like my veins got cleansed from lots of blood circulation because swimming uses all of your muscles. Kind of hard to explain.
5) Brought back lots of Greensboro College swim team memories!
So, once again, I will be VERY excited when these next 2 weeks are over and I can do exercises other than running!
Yesterday at church, I ran into a friend who is in PT school right now. She was in town for the weekend and I hadn't seen her in a while. She asked me about how my foot was doing, and I gave her the scoop and explained what was going on. After church, she looked at my foot and gave me some exercises/stretches/etc for me to do between now and the race. God is good! She said that reality is it will come back during the race, but at that point to push through it. Until then, I'm not supposed to over-do it. Hence, why I swam today. I might try and run again on Thursday... we'll see. I'm signed up to run a 5k on Sunday... we'll see what happens between now and then because I don't want to make it worse again.
Friends who have done similar races keep reminding me that since I've done 10 miles, I should be fine for the half marathon. I am trying to keep reminding myself of that!
I will leave you with some pictures from the Greensboro College Swim Team days....
Stuart and Mom at one of my swim meets.
Jo! Rockin the wet curly hair.
At the championship swim meet - with Alex.
That's me swimming the butterfly.
And again... I clearly remember this race because I came from behind and beat our rival team in the lane beside me!
Sharon and Mica
Yay some of the team! Go GC Pride!
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