Sometimes you have a plan but when your body says no, you have to listen. I had planned a run for this evening but my knee had been sort of bothering me through the whole day and I was nervous that if I went for a run, I would make it even worse and maybe even more serious. I interrupted the hubby while he was studying (he’s taking his NPTE board exam in less than 3 weeks!) and he did some tests to check it out and we’re figuring that my left IT band is really tight and it’s causing the pain in the knee. Or something like that. I don’t know all the fancy terms but generally that’s what’s up. It’s causing my knee to click every so many steps that I take and the more I’m standing on it, the more it hurts. This is a bit depressing but I’m hoping that with some heat/cold therapy, stretching, and rolling, it will be feeling better in the next couple of days.
I had lunch with my family at dad’s (and I suppose still technically mine) work in the cafeteria and then spent an hour at the mall with my sister. She’s obsessed with American Eagle and wanted to buy something with her birthday gift card. We also hit up Godiva for a post lunch treat. Shame on me 🙁 I’m not going to regret enjoying myself though, just the $6 dent in my shrinking wallet.
Then we were off to the pool for day 2 of swimming. She wanted to spend some more time working on her swimming. We worked on a couple of things and then took our party over to the water slide/deep end. I didn’t end up really swimming laps other than swimming next to her for a while because at this point I was still planning on running. We jumped out to dry off before dad came to pick her up and passed the time with our favorite game.
I think she thinks she’s better than me but I won this game. I think we actually win at a pretty even rate when we’re both on.
We’re pretty competitive people.
I’m going to beat her time in the Iron Girl but I’m going to try not to rub it in since I want her to do it again 😉
My hair ended up looking like this for the rest of the night which I think scared Brady and his parents a little bit. It was a scary looking frizz afro…
I finally used my Veggetti spiralizer for the first time after 2 years and made some sweet potato noodle curry. I generally followed this recipe and I didn’t do the mango salsa. It was good but not necessarily my favorite. I’m not dying to make it again anyways.
It was a nice day but I’m really hoping my knee figures itself out without too much issue because running is my weakest discipline at the moment.
I’ll leave with this link to a story from one of my favorite bloggers that will give you a good laugh today.
To recap my triathlon journey, visit my Triathlon page.
What exercises do you do when you can’t run?
Have you ever tried spiralized veggies? Have a favorite one?
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