Well, shoulder hurt a little last night; glute pain is now more along the IT band.
Today: a LOT of rehab at home (1 hour), 1K walk (15:50 pace; Bradley-Cooper block…woo hoo! 1k!) quit before pain; had a few tingles.
Matrix bike at the Riverplex: 1:02:10 for 20 “fake miles”; slowly at first, 38:43 for 20K, 57:41 for 30K, 19.5 miles at 1 hour even.
Stretching…that is when my glasses fogged up big time. Weight afterward 204 (lockerroom scale), with shoes. and sweaty shirt, shorts and yes, mask.
Rehab just takes so long but I did a LOT of it. Hey, I have cords, stretch bands, you name it.
Discouraged? Well, my physical troubles are “first world” troubles. I know people who are dealing with much, much, much worse…they would be delighted to be where I am. My troubles are really sports; I want to walk 5K pain free, to be able to swim a little bit of crawl (say, work up to a set of 10 x 100), and do bench presses and shoulder presses again.
So…whining from me is just unwarranted whining.
I’ve fought through this a few times: 2000: shoulder, 2006-2008 piriformis, glute, 2010-2011: glute, knee AND shoulder again, 2012-2013 back.
Realistically I’ll get through this too, but it will take longer than I like and when I return, it won’t be to the level that I’d like. Hey…I’ll never take a pain free 5K for granted again.
I do think that my workouts will be a lot different this time around; lots of band work..rehab will be basically, permanent.
Life of an old goat 