I haven't posted in a week and I haven't run in a week! Correlation? A little bit.
My quad began to hurt last Thursday. It was really tight and sore. Then my knee started to bother me and swell. And then also my hip and my glutes.
I am assuming that my body responded quickly and abrasively to my 5K on Sunday and my progressive run on Wednesday. Now I know that I am not quite ready to be increasing intensity...and I need to be patient with my body.
I am pretty sure my hips are tight, causing anger in my IT band and also vastus lateralis muscle. After a lot rolling, icing, stretching, massaging, hot tubbing, I'm feeling like I'm 95% recovered. I also go new running shoes, the Brooks Glycerin. My shoes were pretty close to getting to the end of their life, so I am figuring this may have been a factor to my small set back.
Yesterday, for exercise, I walked about 3 miles total and did light weights and core. It was nice.
Outside of trying to heal, I've really only been working, organizing the apartment some more, and catching up on more Orange is the New Black. Pretty boring stuff.
I got a Spot Award at work for a project I completed, so that's extra money in my pocket. I revised our ADA forms and also created a ADA Interactive Process Guide for the HR Managers. Additionally, I created a Documentation Checklist and ADA Hardship Analysis for the HR Manager to use when employees are requesting an accommodation. When I first started my job, I was surprised none of this existed here and I finally put in enough time in to make some changes. I'm pretty happy about this, and I am looking forward for my project to actually get implemented (which is another challenge!) I could talk for days about the ADA...but I won't do that here.
Tonight I am going to try to read rather than watching the tube - let's see how that goes!
Talk to you all later!
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