4 Days

I haven’t blogged lately, as I didn’t really have a clearly defined plan. I overall tried to stick to the plan mentioned two blogs ago.  Within that frame I look for opportunities to push forward when possible without doing two steps backwards. A week ago Sunday my legs felt ok, even did a set of hex bar deadlifts the night before. I decided to do the Greenway trail before church. I did ok and moved along smoothly, yet I felt that things weren’t quite rite. Just before mile 6 I felt a twinge of pain inside my inner left knee. I would have stopped it there if I had been on a track— but I still had nearly 2 miles to go. I walked and finished ok, but I knew that this was a setback. The day before I was walking normally and now I was back to the drawing board. I did ice and ibuprofen and stuck to ab and upper body stuff. By Tuesday the acute pain had subsided. By Wednesday I felt like I had the previous Friday. On Thursday I felt as if my leg was back to where it was last Saturday. On Friday, after coming home from visiting my father in law at the hospital— I walked the Ridge Road loop which is roughly 3.5 miles. I felt none of the soreness that had followed my other walks. I mean, there was and is a little stiffness. My leg is not close to 100 percent, but it is good enough to walk normally for 3.5 miles without pain— that’s progress. My goal is to do this loop and variations of it for a week through this Friday. The plan is to increase by .5 miles or 1 mile the distance for the next week. The goal is to get strength back in the leg without overtaxing and hurting the leg. For now, I know my leg is not back. I am grateful to do some training without pain. That is a true blessing. God is teaching me and God is using me.
 Even though I am blogging about my training, I realize that there are many other bigger things going on in my life. I am so grateful to be at this point. Thank you Jesus.