Core Work

Tonight I did a new class at the gym. Ceselie (pronounced Cecilia) who I train with started a new leg, abs, and back class that combines what we did after track and core work. I have been battling Plantar for a month now and had been babying it. Saturday I had to work and walked all over the base and was on my feet all day- my foot really hurt. Iced, Adviled and put inserts in my combat boots and it was better Sunday and was just a little painful today, so I went to Ceselie's class. We did jump steps and slides using a raised board, then lunges with weights and various other running build ups- my Plantar was screaming, but i could tell it would be incredibly helpful if I weren't hurt. The second half-hour is core. We did ball squats- holding yourself against a wall with the ball and squatting. At one point she said go lower and the "f" word popped out of me as I went lower and 8 or 9 people heard me, I apologized and was very embarrassed, I never cuss in public. Liz from track was beside me and said "it's ok, we were all thinking it." Later we were laying with the ball between the legs with the legs raised and Ceselie said to raise the hips- I couldn't do it. My core must be extremely weak, need to really work on it.
My plantar is still hurting, but I iced as soon as I got home- tomorrow at spin-swim I'll find out if it's getting better and needs to be worked or if I set myself back by weeks. I'm hoping for it needing to be worked after a month of babying.
During the snow days we had, I finally did something I'd been thinking of for years. I took 5 years of school pictures for the kids and matched them up and hung them climbing up my entryway steps. It looks ok in the picture, but in real life it turned out better than i had imagined it would look.

Hopefully I can get back to posting running adventures one of these days.