Tuesday – May 20, 2008
Training: 63 minutes
Supplements: foot exercises
Details: Felt decent today, but not GREAT!
Wednesday – May 21, 2008 – OH CRAP!
Training: 45 minutes
Details: BAD NEWS, YET AGAIN! So today I was actually planning on running 9 miles, about an hour…so I'm running along and 15 minutes before getting back to the gym, BAM, I bust my ARS and really, REALLY hurt my knee. I tripped (on gravel) and totally BUSTED my knee on a rock and sliiid on the gravel… OUCH… So I was hurt so bad, I felt like I was about to pass out, for real. So I was kind of like laying up against the fence in a real pathetic way bleeding from my hands, elbows, and knees when I REALLY start feeling like I am about to pass out when like 10 SWISS PEDESTRIANS JUST STARE AT ME AND WALK BY…WHAT HAPPENED TO A HELPING HAND??? OR EVEN ASKING, "HEY, ARE YOU OKAY?" Instead, 10 people just walk, bike, or run by and just look at me, STARE at me… meanwhile, this is the BIGGEST CULTURE SHOCK TO ME EVER (even though I have lived here for a total of 3 years) and so I start crying…yes, crying because I feel like CRAP, feel like I am about to pass out and am scared if and when I do, nobody will stop and help!!! WHAT THE F%&*!?!?!?!? I MEAN LIKE, I AM NOT TAKING A NAP NEXT TO THIS RIVER! I DIDN'T JUST GET TIRED AND THINK "hey, this GRAVEL path looks comfortable, I think I'll lay down and rest….." Sooo, NOBODY STOPS. ABOUT 12 PEOPLE JUST MOZY ON BY ME… I finally realize that none of these damn people are gonna' stop and help me, so I better start walking back because I have to call my boss and tell her that I'll be late for work… So I scrape myself up off the ground and stick my bloody, yes, literally bloody hands under my armpits because a. they are bleeding and b. I am FREAKING FREEZING and slowly walk back…crying pathetically and wiping my eyes… FINALLY, ONE LADY STOPS, ASKS ME IF I AM OKAY, AND ACTUALLY OFFERS ME HER CELL PHONE. So then I explain to her, still crying, that she is the first of about a dozen people to first of all, even stop, but more ASTONISHINGLY, the first person to even stop and ask if I was okay… So long story, well, not so short… but a bit shorter… I had to take off a whole week because I guess I really messed my knee up… THEN, the week I was supposed to be studying for finals, I GOT BRONCHITIS AGAIN! So I guess I was super stressed and got sick again… Aaaaanyay, I do actually have some good news to tell…I HAVE A NEW COACH, ACTUALLY 2 NEW COACHES! SHE made it to the Olympics in the marathon in 2004 and he is her husband . More coming soon…Figured I'd tell the story of how I REALLY BUSTED MY KNEE and also of how I miss the USA where people would probably would have over-exaggerated and called an ambulance rather than just stare and walk by when a young woman, in Adidas clothes is bleeding, crying and laying on a gravel path……
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