My Journey Through Rehab

Went out for a jog this morning to see how my abs felt. Did a 5k in about 27 minutes. Had to force myself to slow down at times because the longer my stride the more I felt the strain. If I kept my stride short it felt fine. Tried to do a pullup afterwards but that was a no go. I was able to do pushups so that’s going to be my game plan for a while. A slow jog and pushups until my abs feel better. I may have to take a week off from softball as well as the stopping and starting to either run to first or field a ball on defene is where I’m putting the most strain on. The weather is getting so nice here in NY I hate to cut my workouts short but I have no choice. I’m going to lift later today but will keep the weight light and do more reps.

Who knew playing softball could get you hurt? I had strained my abs a month or 2 ago and thought they were healed. My second at bat Wednesday night I rope a single between third and short and take off from home and just felt a pain in my abs. I figure it’s a strain and will take a few weeks to heal. I can’t get my abs to show but I’m straining them every few weeks now.

My body is telling me to take it easy so this week I’m going to take off. I’ve got a  nagging pain in my shoulder, legs and abs so instead of making things worse I’ll just try to rest and heal. I hate these off weeks especially as I was in a good groove but better to be smart about this.

Yesterday I went out for my Saturday run and felt like I was flying. I averaged 7:50 for a 5k and that was with me stopping to talk to a guy for a bit. Today my legs felt heavy and dead and averagd 8:40 for 5 miles. I have to figure out if it was what I ate the day before both runs or if it was something else. On a side note the LI marathon is today and I feel a little bad about not running in it. I trained for it last year and did the half in just under 2 hours. The problem this year is I haven’t gone over 5 miles in about 7 months so I would never have finished this year. Maybe next year.

Ab ripper X update: I still haven’t been able to finish the whole routine without stopping but I think it is definately starting to show some results. I’m gonna keep going and hopefully by the end my lower abs will be visible. That’s my goal anyway.

P.S. I put 2 bucks on Mine That Bird at the Derby and it paid $103.20.  Broke even with all my smart bets.