THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

YMCA.  65 minutes on the bike until my hiney could take no more, then 30 minutes on the super-elliptical.  This machine was different than the one yesterday--put me through a much bigger range of motion as if bounding and totally jacked my heart rate up and made me pant.  Sweet!  Oh, the sweat, pouring off of me and sloshing on the machines.

76 minutes on the super elliptical thing.  Left knee/shin is already tons better...Right knee/shin is not.  Bone scan tomorrow.

ramped up the crossramp and resistance and went psycho on the elliptical for 60 minutes, then did 20 minutes of weights, mostly arms. According to the elliptical machine my heart rate was all over the place, cycling up and down from 140-230.  Don't know if I believe that.  I definitely got my breathing picked up and was sweating like crazy.  I got injected with the radioactive isotopes and go for the bone scan later--probably still won't know anything for a few days after that.

And the verdict is...bilateral proximal tibial stress fractures--one in each leg, just below the knee at the top of the tibia.  I am to stay off them for 4 weeks with no weightbearing exercise or anything that causes any stress or torque on tibia including pushing--so no cycling, elliptical,  long walks on the beach, etc...  I am looking into pool running--thanks Bonnie for the link on my facebook.  The doctor prescribed me mega doses of vitamin D--apparently you can have all the calcium in the world but with no vitamin D you can't absorb it and it does you no good.  I already went and got a suitable swimsuit and am eager to start flailing around.  Rumor has it a lot of fitness can be maintained with pool running.

am.   The Y opens at 5 and I will be at the door waiting more often than not.  One hour pool running consisting of 5 minute warm-up, countless sets of two minutes hard, one minute easy, and 5 minute cool down.  This is going to take some practice--I haven't quite figured out pool running form yet and many times I am pretty sure I was just thrashing wildly.  The pool belt thingy chafed my arm pretty good so I need to figure out how to fasten it correctly. It sits up high but I am a short girl with not a lot of trunk so maybe if I scoot it down on my hips a little?  I dunno--all things that I have plenty of time to figure out.

am. one hour thrashing wildly around pool running.  5 minute warm up then 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 ladder with one minute rests, then recovered a few minutes, got bored, 5 sets of 1 on, 1 off, 5 minute cool down.  It's interesting how fast recovery is in the pool cardio-wise, even after all out flailing and effort and "sprinting" intervals the one minute is more than enough.  Mentally I need that minute, though.  I felt a little better about the form today.  I ran out of time yesterday but hopefully I get to swim some laps later.

afternoon:  2250 yards, one hour, and a nauseating belly full of chlorine.  I am not a good swimmer.  

I am on the on-call nurse ths weekend which means I must carry and answer my phone at all times, and man have the calls been coming.  So, no pool, which means no cardio workout because I'm not allowed on anything else.  I did 30 unsatisfying minutes of ab ripper x plus push-up, light upper body hand weights, and leg lifts at home.  Blah.  I can't wait until Monday, then a whole week of pool running and swimming!