jogging final

so for my jogging final I was super tired and my leg was killing me but somehow i was able to finish my mile in 8.03 which is pretty good! and the best time that I have gotten. I do think i could have done better if my leg hadn't been hurting!

Now I am doing a bootcamp with my mom for a while! It's a lot of fun but doesn't have me running as much... I think I'll have to make Katt get up and run with me!

Mud run number 2

My parents, Jake and I ran the OC eco mud run this last saturday! We had so much fun!
Sadly the last few weeks my leg has been hurting again so I was not able to run the entire thing I had to take a few breaks to stretch my leg a little bit. Other than that it was really good and we had a really good time! Jake and My time was 35.10 which isn't bad for a 5k but I could have done better if it weren't for my leg!

Jogging class

So i have been in this jogging class at school! It's not to bad! I wasn't sure exactly what to expect but i do think it is making me stronger in a way! especially since lately I have been to tired to want to get up and run, this class has forced me to do it anyway and push myself to do it.

We run between a mile and 2 miles ever class which is Mondays and Wednesdays at 7am

This Monday we ran another timed mile. I was trying not to get the best time a could while still beat the time i got on the last one (9.15). I was really shooting for about 9.0 minutes of course I can't ever hit what I want to and ended up getting a 8.24 which actually kind of surprised me that I could do a mile that fast and still think i could go faster! I'm actually kind of excited!

today we ran a timed 2 mile I was able to get 17.47 which isn't to bad i am actually pretty shocked now that I look at it that just a year ago I could not even run a full mile straight and now I am trying to slow myself down. Kinda cool!!

My leg hasn't been hurting at all thankfully! the only time it hurts now is if I try and sprint so I just don't do that :)

I am signed up for the Irvine Mud run on April 24Th with my friend Jake and my parents. So I need to keep up the training to make sure that I will be able to do the 5k in the mud! I am pretty excited about it!

Jogging class

So the jogging class has been going good! I had to run a timed mile yesterday so that we could get times for the beginning of the semester to improve on!

So my thought was I will jog really slow so that my time will be bad and I will be able to improve easily! so that's what I did or so i thought!

I ended up with a time of 9.15 that's better than any of my other times! crazy! so now i don't know how I will be able to improve on that week after week! ugh. oh well I guess I will be really challenged!

as for the injury I have been feeling so much better therapy is going great and hopefully I will only have a few more weeks of it and I will be cleared!

update

ok so it's been a while i am totally slacking!

Let's see I have still been running almost everyday! it's been raining lately and well i have been slacking in the rain but i just don't feel like getting soaked a little rain is ok but pouring just not fun!

Any way I have been going to this new physical therapy place it's called synergy it's so good! Leo my therapist is awesome and i have been getting great results! I have been able to run without my wrap and without tape and still have no pain! it's amazing! we figured that it is an IT band problem so we have been working on that and so far it's working hopefully i'll only need another month of therapy and been done! so exciting!

I also signed up for a jogging class at school at 7am on Mondays and Wednesdays! I am super excited hopefully I will get some great pointers! I'll have to post things as I go!

MRI results

So I went to the orthopedics's office yesterday! I had gotten my MRI last week and was going in to get the results from the scan.

After looking at the pictures and stuff the orthopedic came in and told me that my MRI showed that I was perfect! there is nothing wrong that they can see from the MRI :( So basically we have no idea!

So Next month I have an appointment with a neurologist who is going to test my nerves. Basically the orthopedic thinks that it might be a compressed nerve that is causing the pain. So basically we still have no idea what is wrong and I have to wait another month until we will maybe have any idea!?

ugh....


Meanwhile... I ran a timed mile yesterday to see my time this time around.

so the results 9.40 which isn't to bad and considering my leg hurts and it was freezing which makes it much harder to breathe so 9.40 is not bad at all.

I'm actually really proud that I can run as much as I do! I never thought I would be able to run at all!

Rainy Days

So it's been quite rainy the last few days which makes it much harder to go out and run! I think mostly the thought of what if I slip and die! :) so I decided to pull out some old workout dvds that I had bought and do some of those! I forgot how much of a workout some of them are!! wow!

I got an MRI on my leg/knee on Monday. Next Monday I should get the results from the MRI and hopefully see what is causing the pain and hopefully take the next steps to fixing it so I can stop wearing this stupid wrap and just run!

Feeling good...

I have been feeling great running lately! I finally got past the pain and have been pushing myself to go farther and farther everyday!

But... Physical therapy has been getting me no where for the most part. I haven't gotten any better. I have gotten stronger but the pain is still there without wearing the brace. so my physical therapist tried to further diagnose this problem both therapists think that it is my PCL (posterior cruciate ligament)which can only be fixed by surgery (sucky)

So I am scheduled next week to go back to the orthopedic and get scheduled for an MRI so we will see how that goes and see what the options are from there!

Back on My Feet

I am so excited everyday last week except Sunday I was able to go out and "run." It's more like slowly jogging but it feels so good to be able to do something.

Since it is so hot lately I have been going over to Huntington central park. It's really beautiful and there is shade on most of the paths. I brought Daytona (my dog) all of the days except Friday. She is still not able to run as much as I would like to so I end up dragging her after about 1/3 mile. I am just going to keep taking her. She needs to learn to run more.

On Saturday I got dressed and put shoes on. Right as I was getting the dog ready to go my parents arrived home from their bike ride. With a little coaxing I was able to get them out and jogging with me. It was amazing how much more Daytona ran with everyone there with me.

I do have to say running is not as bad as it was my the first week. Slowly my body is getting use to it and I am starting to enjoy it. I know scary thought but it's true. Although by the end i pushing myself to finish the last little bit and can barely breath when I finish.

My leg for the moment as long as I am wearing my hamstring wrap is feeling great!

See Jessy Run

Well more like Jog slowly...

Since the Physical Therapist said that I could try "jog/walking" whatever that means, Saturday I put on my running shoes got the dog leash and went out.

I did stretch a lot and put on my compression wrap to make sure that I would be ok. I was able to get around the block (1.5 miles) without stopping to walk (except to pick up and throw away dog poop) and without real pain! I was so excited! So of course again today at bootcamp I had to try!

At bootcamp I was able to get around the parking lot without pain. I was jogging with my mom which was slower than I normally do but I wanted to make sure that I was not going to push to much!

So it looks like I might be able to start working towards that 5k again!!! Slowly is the key! I need to remember not to push myself yet I am still healing and working towards stronger legs.

YAY!!!

So I went to physical therapy yesterday nothing to exciting! I am going to be gone all week next week so she told me to make sure i keep stretching next week while I am gone!

As I was leaving she said that towards the end of next week i could try jogging/walking to see how my leg feels! So hopefully I will have no pain and I will be able to keep jogging and hopefully running!!!

I'm totally excited! I am ready to run I am so tired of not doing anything!

Pain!!!

OH Dear!!! I went to the physical therapist today! It was the most painful visit yet! It is a good thing that it was so painful but it hurts!!

She figured out the spot that is making my leg hurt it's in my medial hamstring. So she "massaged" more like dug into my muscle. It was so painful in the hamstring but when she did that it didn't hurt the other part of my leg so strange. There is no real reason that it should hurt on the lateral lower leg when the actual problem is in the medial hamstring but that's just how it works!

So now that we figured out what the problem is we should be able to work it out and strengthen it so that i can get running again soon!! yay!!

I feel so lame not being able to run and watching everyone else run not to mention not being able to do lunges and squats so dumb...

Running on a moving ship is not easy!!

So last week I went on a cruise! It was amazing and so relaxing!

I did some running! Even though I was not supposed to i just couldn't resist so I put on my shoes and went up to the track.

Let me tell you it is really hard to run on a moving ship!! REALLY HARD! I kept rocking back and forth and forget about running in a straight line there is no such thing!

Also on that track you have to go around 10 times for it to equal a mile! It's really hard to count ten laps while running! I am ok with 4 on a track but 10 ugh.... So i think I ran a mile and a half but I might have miss counted my 15 laps! Oh well atleast I was running and not just eating a ton!

I was also able to focus and make sure that I stepped the correct way so that my leg did not hurt (as much)

I went to physical therapy today and Jill my physical therapist thinks that it might be my medial hamstring! which is wierd because the pain is on the lateral side of my leg! I don't know I am all taped up so that I can't use that muscle right now and I am still not supposed to run ugh...

Hamstring

My physical therapist thinks that my injury might have to do with my hamstring! So hopefully that really is it and we can work towards fixing it so that i can run again!!

First Blog

Hi I am Jessy! I have never been a runner before. Not even really a jogger. In junior high and high school i could not even run the mile. I would run for a little and then just walk the rest of the way. It's not that I gave up I just couldn't do it. While I was playing volleyball in my sophomore year of high school i hurt my ankle and was unable to or jog at all. Finally my senior year of high school I went to a orthopedic who said I severely pulled a tendon in my ankle. He put me in a cast and crutches for 3 months. After that I had a lot of physical therapy and things to get me back to being able to walk and do normal things forget ever running. I have also been over weight my whole life. I decided it was time for a change I need to set some goals and start exercising more so that I could be in shape!

This year I decided I wanted to become a runner. It's now been 4 years since I graduated high school so i figured it was time! I knew I couldn't just go out of my house and start running that would be crazy!! So i signed up for the orange county adventure boot camp in February! My mom also signed up and we started working towards our goal together! Her goal is to lose 50 pounds in her 50th year! since she turned 50 this year! her is her blog:http://bootcampat50.blogspot.com/

At the boot camp we started doing a little bit of jogging with other circuit exercises! It was surprisingly really fun! I love it! it's 530-630 every morning for 4 week intervals! During my second boot camp Sam (our coach/trainer) decided to have us do a timed mile at the beginning to see how we improved by the end of the month. I thought there is no way I can run a mile! I will die! I almost skipped camp that day just to get out of it! but I went and to my surprise i was able to run/jog the entire mile! I could not believe it! and I ran it in 10.49 I could not believe it was even possible!

At the end of the camp I ran it in 10.09 40 seconds faster! I was so excited I could run an entire mile without stopping or walking!

My first goal on this journey is to run a 5k! I did set the goal for running it in June but i injured my leg somehow and am now in physical therapy for a month. My doctor and physical therapist said I am not allowed to run for 1 month. This is now week 2 and it is killing my not to run at all!

I am signing up for a 5k race in August! hopefully I will be able to train and run it by then! The 5k that I signed up for I am able to take my dog and run with her. That should be really awesome! She is going to have to do all of my training with me because she cannot run a mile strait yet either! I tried to take her but I end up dragging her by the time I get to a half mile!

It looks like as soon as I am cleared to run I have a lot of training to do!!