Week 20 - The Big Rest?

Monday, September 22, 2008

Knees still hurt. Today's a day off. Life is good...


Tuesday, September 23, 2008

I'm going to take most of the rest of the week off (and focus on not using so many prepositional phrases in my writing) while I'm out of town. That being said, I did a 10-mile ride on the stationary bike this morning at a time of 27:22. I'll be on the road to St. Louis most of the day and thought I could use the activity.


Wednesday, September 24 through Saturday, September 27, 2008

I had the great idea of giving my knees a rest while out of town. Unfortunately, I started off on the wrong foot (very literally) Wednesday morning. I was at the Hyatt at Union Station in St. Louis for the annual Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) conference. I had a workshop the first thing Wednesday morning.

On my way to the workshop, I decided to look for a shop that sold bottled sodas. I walked out of the hotel and into the adjoining mall area. I was looking into the mall and didn't see that there were two steps immediately outside. I stepped, expecting the floor to continue. It didn't and I stepped about a foot farther down than I was anticipating. When my foot hit the floor, I felt a hard jolt and it seemed like my foot was twisting out. Apparently my ankle was strong enough to resist the turn (and I didn't lose my balance thus salvaging my self-respect) and it didn't feel like I tore anything but I was walking very gingerly for a few days...

The conference was fantastic (lots of sessions on work with coaches and elite athletes) and the drive home was uneventful. I was rewarded with being able to listen to Indiana State (where I got my Ph.D.) lose their 18th straight game to SE Missouri State with about 40 seconds to go. Go Sycamores!


Sunday, September 28, 2008

I'm continuing to rest a bit from running. After getting my morning drag from the dog, I did another 10-mile ride on the bike at a time of 27:17. My knees are feeling a bit better and I'm no longer sore from the misstep on Wednesday. I'm going to try to return to my previous exercise regimen next week.


Mental Skill Used during the Week: The rest seems to have helped as I'm feeling a bit better. Regrouping has been critical and necessary. Maintaining focus has been important as well as with recent setbacks, it's been important to remember what my goals are. Associative thinking remains an important skill as I'm learning what my body will, and won't, let me do. Finally, the other skills, goal setting, dissociative thinking, persistence, etc., are still actively used.

Until next week...