hes on your team and hes still alive??? :mad: this is wrong. how can the issue be closed in two days? press f!@#ing charges! :mad:
:eek: when do you get the stitches out?
Sorry about this question, but is it painful to go to the bathroom?
I hope it gets well soon.
I think they are biodegradable stitches…? I have to go back for a checkup in 2 weeks; now a week and a half. Pain could be worse, I woke up in the middle of the night for the first few nights from pain and had to take painkillers, but last night i made it through a full night’s sleep. As far as more specific pain… i am on fiber pills among others which don’t actually seem to do all that much and i could probably cope without.
we had a long team meeting regarding the issue indirectly… we got a long, passionate lecture from our coach and from our athletic director about drinking less and about taking better care of each other.
as for me, i actually ran 
really i think i am not supposed to do anything, but when they told me that i got all teary, so it was presented more as a you’ve-been-warned kind of thing so i can’t sue them if i burst my stitches.
-easy 1 lap jog, 1 lap jogging curves and running straights, dflex, easy sprint drills, abbrev. hurdle mobility
-1 mile form-running straights, walking curves on grass
-pushup/crunch circuit: 10 crunches straight to 10 pushups straight to 9 crunches, etc down to 1
I didn’t really get any pain above and beyond what I have already had, nothing sharp that would worry me. I have a little more pain now, but still nothing that would tell me i tore something. this is what the painkillers are for 
My hamstring is actually spasming, that is kind of unexpected, but it’s not sore… just jumpy. I don’t know how that could be, since I had basically 4 days off. I am not sure yet about competing this weekend, the sensible thing would probably be to hold off, especially since it is in maine- a LONG bus ride, could be pretty cold, and i don’t really know if i’ll be able to compete. I’ll wait and see how i feel tommorow after having done some stuff today, and decide then.
not much has changed. still pain. I am trying to take painkillers as little as I can. I was entered in the meet this weekend but I emailed my coach and told that my chances of hurdling well or at all were very small, and that I might be able to jump ok but I was also in worse scoring position there. I am just not sure how I would have tolerated a long bus ride all the way to maine and then to not even being 100% didn’t make any sense. I am staying at school and locking myself in the library instead.
I feel like when you get injuries you can either feel a sort of “good” pain where you can tell it is healing well, or you can get a more sickly pain feeling. this does not feel so great 
I’d be careful Kras…
With internal stitches you need complete rest. Dont push it or you could take 6 months to heal…
Did the doctors tell you if you can be running or not?
ummm… haha
yeah i’m not supposed to do anything. I threw jav one day which was so-so and ran that one day which felt fine at the time but then I had to get up in the middle of the night and take two painkillers because pain was keeping me awake.
as i mentioned, it wasn’t important enough for them to tell me at the time, it was only when i called them later that they told me not to train hard, so if i start feeling great next week i’ll do some light work. no matter what i am doing a hep at the end of the week, which will be exactly 2 weeks. I’m realizing that that could mean doing almost nothing in between now and then which i’ll just have to accept.
it is cold and rainy, i am glad i am not outside in maine right now. instead i am studying my life away… yessssss :rolleyes:
How long did they tell you not to do anything?
I would rest completely (not even warmups) for a week and then look at doing warmups only till the meet.
You might actually run really well if you have been burnt out lately.
Cheers,
Chris
haha shhhhhhhh
You are probably right though, I am hoping for a peak since i’m sure i am constantly burned out. It always seems to be a catch up game for me- always trying to recover and avoid injury, which is fine, but at the expense of actually making as much progress as i could.
I can’t even remember the last time i went without working out in any capacity for more than a couple days. maybe it will be good for me.
One of our 400 guys went to Kenya over Spring Break, didn’t run for almost 2 weeks, came back and ran the 4x400 opening leg in 50.8! Previous best was 52.1… You never know…?
Don’t they run in Kenya to go from place to place?
haha I have no idea… This guy did no running at all over there though, and bam comes back and runs a PR… Maybe it was that high altitude that got to him…? haha I dunno.
haha
well kenya or not, i am not running I spoke with my coach, and he is really uncomfortable and nervous with me doing a hep right on the cut-off day of the healing period, after having done almost nothing for two weeks. he understands how much i want to do it, but he just really doesn’t want to let me… i almost cried in front of him, but i made it back to my room first.
this comp is one i have been preparing for since indoor, even after the surgery i always assumed i would make it there even if i couldn’t train for a while beforehand. My coach knows i would do it in a heartbeat and put everything i have into it, because even though i haven’t performed so badly in 3 years as i have this year, i still love track so much that i wouldn’t think twice about taking the risk if it meant i could compete.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
so now on my to-do list… manufacture a believable injury for my parents to explain the meet because they don’t know what happened. try to fight the eating disorder for as long as i can until finally succumbing to it. figure out what to do for training over the summer… stay low-intensity and just get stronger like last summer, or try to build back lost speed? and get through finals and try to stay afloat… i can’t handle any more adversity right now.
GODDAMMIT WHY DID THE MOTHERFUCKER HAVE TO PICK ME 
:mad: FUCK FUCK FUCK I HATE HIM
Have you said anything to the jackass since then? I’m surprised there hasn’t been another incident (physical or verbal).
he talks to me every day to ask how i am. he was devastated by what he did- he was drunk out of his mind, not that it’s an excuse. He’s still on the team, still captain as far as i know, and still graduating, all because i made a very careful statement to the dean of the college. My sister is graduating from here in a couple weeks too and i won’t be the one to ruin her graduation after wrecking her car.
from the college’s point of view the issue is closed. from a legal standpoint it is not.
edit: warmed up today with no pain… how exciting
stayed up really late working, woke up feeling horrendous. Did not bother to go warm up. I am feeling like I really should just take as much time as I need COMPLETELY off since I don’t need to be worrying about coming back for anything now. what a disastrous year! :eek:
actually it kind of mimics my freshman year of high school very closely… hmmmm does someone have trouble adjusting to new places? :o
I have been trying to determine what I should do for training over the summer. The way I see it, I could cross train, lift heavy, or train for speed. Training to get speed back is really what i need, i am just hoping that i won’t burn myself out by trying to get all that extra work in, and HOPEFULLY my work in DC will allow me to get in the time i need.
lifting heavy is almost certainly not what i need, and is probably what fletcher will tell me to do- too bad. The low-intensity stuff i did last year like yoga and pilates did some good things. Now just to figure it all out…
I have manufactured a “hamstring injury” to explain the end of my season to the parents and it is all working out quite smoothly. The hamstring actually isn’t a total lie, it has been going into spasms periodically again, even with all the rest. Including right now.
I have eaten food only twice today. I can’t waaaiiittt for school to end, it is soooo close
I’m actually trying to figure out a summer plan myself…
Normally I would keep working out with my G reek team to compete for Greek meets , but having a shin and knee problem, I doubt my coach there will let me do absolutely anything, so I’ll have to do some training on my own I think, that would help heal me completely for the fall. Hmmmmmmmm…
Good luck with your recovery and don’t worry too much about not competing. You have more to come
why not cf model for multi? im sure you could work something out like…
Day 1-Speed, Weights
Day 2-Ext. Tempo
Day 3-S End, Weights
Day 4-Ext. Tempo
Day 5-Jumps/Sp End, Weights
Day 6-Ext. Tempo
Day 7-Off
Very general, but it may work, I guess you could do technique work in the warm up for the hurdling and jumps as well, and go full out on them on the last day. You’d still be running 3x per week, although I listed two end type days as girls have a lower top speed, so they benefit more from special and speed endurance. Plus it should help you with the 200 and 800 greatly.
Kras, please write out your weekly schedule, WITHOUT your workouts. Let’s see just how much time you have for track and working out. Then we can build a schedule that fits you. Include how much time you think you need for relaxing, partying etc.
herb- I am not totally sure what my hours are going to be, I need to talk to the person who actually gave me the job. As of right now until I go to DC on june 4th i can do pretty much whatever i want. From somewhere around the 4th to either the 12th or 19th of august i will be in DC interning and working at a retail job on my days off. Having said that, time is not really the issue, presuming i can find a gym that is open either early or late. hopefully i’ll be able to find a track at one of the schools i can use. I wouldn’t think twice about getting up at 6am to get workouts in, this takes precedence over pretty much everything else. On a consistent basis I wouldn’t expect to party hard more than a couple times a week, and drinking is normally a once a week thing if at all.
Last summer I did nothing but work at my part-time job, rehab my ankle, and ended up working out like crazy for hours a day and became Very Skinny. Being busy will be healthy for me, and having a training schedule will help keep me from overtraining.
vitR- i am not sure if i’ll be able to do technique, or if i’ll even want to. theoretically it would be good, but after months of doing the same stuff it could be good to take a rest and do something else. I’m just not sure what exactly i want to do ahhhhh :eek: playing field hockey in the fall was always a really good break, but playing last fall wasn’t that fun and i don’t think i will play again.
as for today… i know i said i was resting, but i just can’t stay away :o
-full WU, hurdle drills, sprint drills
-6x100 form runs, 15-20s btw
-10 min. core
hamstring spasming…
naturally i had to hold myself back… i miss running a lot, but trying to do too much too fast could be really bad.