The Taste of Exhaustion - Day 6

Well today, my exhaustion was almost overpowered by a sense of pride. If you read Day 4 I pulled a hip flexor at the second coach's practice. At first it seemed like a general pulled muscle so I went home did the R.I.C.E thing.

But every time I would get up to go do something I would feel this stabbing pain near my hip. So Day 5 I took it easy and swam for 30 minutes using mostly my arms. So if my arms aren't killer by the end of this, I really did something wrong.

Anywho, I stretched and rested after the swimming and iced it quite a bit. So when I woke up this morning I had a dull ache, but very little pain. So I thought, I can go to practice no problem.

I am a very, very stubborn person and I decided that I just needed to tell my body it wasn't hurting and I could run through the pain. But then humility crept up on me telling me that I don't need to push myself this hard so early on in these low mileage practices. Because soon enough when more mileage is added on I will be putting my body to the test.

So I really had to talk myself through this. I could push myself to run thereby injuring myself permanently and having to drop out of the training even before mile 5. Or I could swallow my pride along with some exhaustion and humility rest up get back to almost 100% so that I can continue on.

I have to say that doing the team thing has been great because we have mentors and coaches & both of them have been very supporting and supported the decision that I made today. Which is such a shift from the old days where my coach would yell at me to suck it up.

This time I'm not sucking it up and pushing myself to injury I am sucking it up to realize that I have to rest so that I can continue on.

Exhaustion tasted a lot like pride washed down with humility. And it tasted so good!

Tomorrow is a rest day before Saturday practice. So my faithful readers you can take a break from reading about my training & maybe I'll post something a little more creative.

So stay tuned my faithful fans (oh wait, didn't I swallow humility today, oops!)

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