9 Months to Tri

Very interesting developments. I’ve painted myself into a corner.

See, I’ve got off-site training for work for the next three days, and I completely failed to plan for this. Its not far, so I won’t be spending a lot of time on the road, but its also not in a location where I can change and go for a run, or take a 2 hour lunch and hit the gym. Best idea so far it to fly out of there after work and go for a run at home. I could be home by 5:20 and be running no later than 5:30. And its staying light out that late these days, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

As for the start of this week, Monday I got waylaid by my freelance work. Very interesting (bad) things happening there. I don’t want to get into the details of it, but I’m considering removing myself from their project. I don’t like/agree the direction its taking.

In anticipation of going to this off-site, I worked until 9pm to get one of my ‘fires’ under control at work, and again worked until 6 tonight. I’m free and clear to go now, but lost any possibility of making up my missed gym lunch.

I can’t possibly go a whole week without working out and hope to run this Saturday, can I? That would suck.

Also, I went to the physical therapist today. I expected 15-20 minutes of showing me how to stretch my knee. Instead, I got a full-hour flexibility, range of motion, and strength work-up. Quite enlightening. I’ve got a stretching workout that I’m supposed to do twice a day, now. I’ll let you know how it goes, and when i have a moment, I’ll scan it in and post it to the blog.

Finally, when explaining the symptons to the therapist, i put my hand on the side of my knee while I extended it, and for the first time, felt the pop with something other than my knee. Actually, I felt 2 pops, and I could repeat it. The therapist could feel it as well, and mentioned that it seemed to him that my patella (knee cap) was actually rubbing against my femur. Possible? Not sure. I’d like to take the doctor of sports medicine’s opinion over a physical therapists, but to be honest, that’s what it felt like to me, too.

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