Fun with Clouds

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.  I am thankful for all my bloggy friends who have supported me this past year in my training.  Thank You!

Speaking of bloggy peeps… Trishie is doing Ironman Cozumel tomorrow – I wish her the best of luck!   Her bib number is 862 if you are following the race at Ironman Live.

A few weeks ago, Trishie had a Wordle cloud on her blog.  I thought it was pretty snappy, so I made one for myself.    It reads your latest blog posts and then creates a word cloud out of them. I like how the words “pain just run” stand out.  Really describes my Ironman experience, eh?  Can you find Ginger in there?  🙂

In other news, my couch potato plan is going great. Hahaha.  I think I gained at least 5 lbs since my race, probably more since the holidays.  I am afraid to step on the scale.

I have worked out a grand total of 5 hours in the three weeks since my Ironman race.    The job is great, however it really makes fitting workouts into my day a challenge.   On top of that I can’t run because of my foot injury, and I can’t swim because of my tattoo.  I love biking, of course, but it’s kind of hard to fit that into a workday.

My challenge for this upcoming season will be how to balance work, life and workouts.  I will figure it out, as I am HTFU girl, right?!   Any advice will be greatly appreciated!    I am looking at joining a gym near work so I can squeeze in some lunchtime workouts.  That should help alot.   And I am encouraging my teenage daughters to help more with things like grocery shopping and running errands.    That will be good for them as well as for me.

I went to the orthopedic guy about my foot.   He took x-rays of my foot and did not see anything ‘worrisome’.     He noted that stress fractures do not necessarily show up in an x-ray this soon, and sometimes not even at all.  He poked around at my foot and asked me how different spots felt.     The main area of pain I have is an arthritic bone spur on the top of my foot.  He said that is not a common area of stress fracture.  He thought that my painful Ironman run simply irritated that spot on my foot and some time off would heal it.  He said that NSAIDS do not get into the feet very well, so he gave me some topical anti-inflammatory gel called Voltarin.     If things don’t get better, he said come back and we can talk about getting a cat scan, orthotics, and other options.