My Journey Through Rehab

My friend called me yesterday and let me know the chip times were added for the half marathon 2 weeks ago. My official time is 1:58:00. I still can’t believe I made it that fast but I’m also very proud of it.

Had a good workout this morning. I tried to do a reverse bicep curl using the preacher pad,figuring the doc said it would be Ok but the arm had a different idea. On my first curl I felt my bicep not feeling right and that should be the last time I try that. Got up and did the curls standing up and had no problems. I assume the isolation was a little too much. Everything has been going fine and I don’t feel like screwing it up now.

Gary

Had the race this morning, half marathon on Long Island New York. It was a fairly flat run and my clock time was 1:59:15 and a 9:06 pace. I came in 1176 out of 3154 people. I wanted to come in at least half minus one and wound up almost getting in the first third.
My goal was to get under 2 hours and I made that, didn’t think I could so I was pleasantly surprised. My Garmin watch had me at 1:58:06 and an 8:56 pace, that’s because it took me a minute to get to the starting line. I’m not gonna squabble over a minute because I still made it before the 2 hour mark. I’m gonna cut back on the length of my runs now because I don’t have another long run until September. I did enjoy it but don’t know how often I’d want to go this far.

I’m gonna sleep good tonight.

Gary

Had my first softball game Friday night since I partially tore my bicep. I was a little apprehensive getting up the first time. Probably took to easy of a swing and weakly grounded out to short. By the second game I was feeling more comfortable and taking better swings and making better contact and got a few hits to show for it. The bicep is still not what it was but it’s good enough to swing a bat and golf clubs which I haven’t done yet but will soon. After the game the team went to a local watering hole and I had a few more than usual. First time since last summer the teams got back together so we had some catching up to do. I guess I was heavier than I thought because a few people remarked about my weight loss. From 212 to 192. Here I thought it was all muscle, obviously not though lol.

I have my first half marathon tomorrow so I’m taking it easy tonight and hoping to feel better tomorrow. I’m shooting for 2 hours but I think that’s a stretch. I found out there’s going to be about 5500 people so it should be a real logjam in the beginning. Really as long as I finish it will be quite an accomplishment and the only way I got started was when I tore my bicep and couldn’t lift for a few months and felt like I had to do something. I’m amazed as well as everyone who knows that I’m doing this, I never ran and smoked a pack a day for 20 some odd years. Heres to a healthy lifestyle and a successful run tomorrow.

Gary