It's already the end of April and I haven't updated my blog for several months, no excuse here. I'll just try to catch up on news like I usually do :-)
The time off and recovery past very well in my home town, Lvov. Lot's of fun, lot's of Holidays (in Ukraine it's kind of Holidays season from the end of December till the end of January) and a little bit of exercising: I took a few dance and a few fitness classes just to do something different and maintain not to lose my shape :-), which didn't really happened. The off season didn't last forever and at the beginning of January I already left Ukraine for much warmer and outdoor training more welcome place, Clermont, Florida. Trying to get in shape faster and lose those "few" pounds of winter weight I pushed myself very hard, probably too hard, because in 6 weeks into my training I got an injury (a stress fracture in left calcaneus). Here I want to say thank you very much to Meadowlands Hospital in New Jersey, which provide me with MRI for my left foot and doctors, who found a couple injuries there and also thanks for the correct and fast diagnosis. And huge thanks to Ronnie Barnes, Vice President of Medical Services of New York Giants who found a minute in his busy schedule and made a recovery plan for my foot. How I got to meet him??? Timex is one of the biggest sponsors for New York Giants and at the end of February we had Team Timex every year camp at Giants facility:
Great 4 days at the camp, everyone, the new members and the old crew were Happy to meet and Celebrate 10th Anniversary of The Team Timex.
Coming back to Clermont from New Jersey I knew that it was time to slow down a little bit with my training. I still was able to ride the bike and swim and aquajog (thanks Team Timex for the present,
Apple Ipod shuffle. Aquajogging can be fun). It's took 4 weeks of no running till the bone healed. I've tried to run after 3 weeks, it's never happened. Believe me, I am experienced person in this area: 4 broken toys, one broken leg and a few fractures. 4 weeks is minimum. It also meant that I might change my race schedule....
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