So I have not been on my blog for some time now! It is either inactivity in things I am doing or not doing or just don't have the time. Whatever the case, here I am!
I look back on 2015. I was reading my journal and I have paid my visits to the chiropractor, physical therapists, massage therapists. I initially went to see one chiropractor to deal with shoulder and neck pain and then when it became another issue in the hip and subsequently in the lower back. I switch over to see a different chiropractor in which she spends a lot of time looking at the person as a whole and not just adjusting what hurts.
The hip pain on the left side I am thinking from glute not activating. The massage therapists worked in and just not being able to release. That went away but somehow I know it will come back. The back injury where pain went all the way down to the right side and into the arch was L4 shift causing bulging disc and hitting the sciatic nerve. This means stop lifting or anything that would compress the spine. Time, therapy and exercise ease the pain. This meant any gains I was making doing Crossfit, I had to start all over slowly and carefully. This same thing happen when I injured my calves, tighten up and increased pain until I stop running, The chiropractor believes it is something called exertional compartment syndrome. The only remedy is fasciotomy - which I am not about to do that. So right now, I don't run. This means any of the crossfit WODs involves running, I cannot do. This also means I stopped doing galloway runs to train for races. This bothered me a lot because that was all I did until personal training, and crossfit came along. I tried everything, including rolfing. Going to massage therapy only provides temporary relief. I had to find a more permanent solution.
I finally went to see a physical therapist who is also a runner. It was out of network but if she can help me.
She did some gait analysis, watched me run and said a whole bunch of things, but first thing was to rid of the pain in the calves, even jumping jack, jumping ropes hurts. She did dry needling on my calves, hurts like heck, gave me some exercises to do, and foam roll a lot. At the time, it seems like any exercise she gives me to do - my calves would activate and nothing else. I think even during personal training, if I was to do say bridge or something one legged, my calves hurts. She feels the left glute is not firing. Now, I know I got muscle imbalances in which my original massage therapist said so. So now I am back to seeing my original massage therapist, see the physical therapist and hopefully will get the left glute to activate. Meanwhile I see my chiropractor every month for some total body care. I know it is going to take time but I just want a permanent solution to this problem. After all that, I will need to learn run midfoot.
With all the long hours at work, many of my activities came to a halt. So now that I have to time to think about things and what I should do in 2016. Whatever gains I made from Crossfit, I know I will have to start over again and I am not sure I want to do that so by end of March, I will choose not to renew my membership. I will miss many of the people there. I met 3 people there whom I called my sisters. No matter what we will stay in touch.
I have started back at Arrichion and I truly missed people there. Oh sure, people come and go but it is the atmosphere there. It's very welcoming and teachers truly want to help you. The people in class encourage and motivate. I probably need to get used to the heat again. But besides yoga, there is circuit class, there is weight lifting. So I am happy here!
I will continue to train with my trainer. I don't do too many solo sessions because it gets expensive and now I trained in a group with 2 other ladies which is a lot of fun, and we seem to get along real good.
I am having a blast this year learning all about kombucha. My sister earth mother Tara, gave me a scoby to make kombucha. Oh gee, what the heck. Nothing ever goes perfect the first time. I learn through trail and error but I was so happy when my first batch was a success and now after many attempts my second fermentation is doing good too - it fizzes.
And now only that, I shared my drinks with others and they love it. Some of my friends said I should go into business in making kombucha and also creating meals for athletes. I thought about it. Right now, it is not the right time and plus cooking and making kombucha is a hobby and cooking is my passion.
I was so proud that a friend asked how to make kombucha and I actually gave her a few scobys to start, gave her instructions. She told me hers is creating baby scobys. Yay!
My trainer is training for a show so I have not come up with recipes for her to try. I need to be careful since she will be on a rigid diet and don't want to introduce anything that is not good for her. But I am proud of myself, last meal I made did not have salt and sugars. I usually do fish since that is one food item people don't like, don't know how to cook. I will post pictures once I figure out how to.
This year my husband has been going hog while with looking for shows to go to. We went to see Nutcracker at the Raleigh Memorial for the first time. I don't really like ballet but this one is different, it showcases the talents of others and not just a whole ballet thing. Light pour in was terrible, the people from Cirque de Voy did an outstanding performance, I will want to want another performance. Our friend Amanda was in a few dance performance, and that last one was exciting - her flying on wires. The most recent we went to Carolina Theatre and watch a taiko drum performance, It was astounding!
So that's about it for now! I promise I will keep this blog updated.
Enjoy!
Sue
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