Terrible Tuesday - Day 9 (I think) - Jane

If you have read my earlier blogs, you may have detected a note of confidence in my ability to run. Pride comes before the fall!

Today felt like someone had tied my feet together with a bungee cord. After warmup, we head for the bleachers - running, not hopping - ALOT. Then down to the track for...100 yards of lunges! Again, to ensure we receive the full effect of our exercise, the trainers are constantly monitoring form - so your knee almost touches the ground on these, and there should be no pause in between, just one lunge into the next - for 100 yards. We finally get to run it out, then...another 100 yards of lunges. No hands on your legs! Run it out again, then up to the bleachers for squats! We then run up, and up, and up, then up some more into a dirt path into the woods. It's Bad News Bears again, and my legs refuse to cooperate to allow me to get up the hill with anything more than a toe shuffle.

Stacy writes in her email today "Keep in mind that when you want to stop, that is your brain talking. I know I keep repeating that, but it really is a "learned thing" that it's okay to push your body past the point where it wants to stop. Again, that is where the results that we are all looking for will happen." Honestly, I'm not sure if I have pushed myself that hard. How will I know? Will I throw up? I mean, I keep moving, and I'm in alot of pain, but the only way I know I've pushed past all that is to either pass out or throw up (both of which I have done in the past - not here). I need to ask Stacy - I'll get back to you.

Now, the really interesting part, is that the ligament pain in my lower back is GONE. (I failed to mention this - I spent the weekend with an ice pack, stretching, Alieve, etc. This started BEFORE TrainStrong, and was not the result of the activity. I have been seeing a chiropractor about it.) And today? GONE. Not as in faint memory. I mean GONE. Woohoo! I'm wondering if all the hamstring exercises yesterday and today are finally balancing out what I affectionately call my thunder thighs - those 'well-developed' quad muscles!