Knee Surgery Journal - Day Three

I am not intending to post every day here but had a couple of things I wanted to add so I figured I could do so now.

I rode my bike indoors on Day one as I said and then went and swam later in the day. I have a pretty standard workout that I do when I swim which consists of four separate 500-yard sets. I call it the “Dane Workout” and it's something that has served me greatly in the past. During the first 500 I was feeling remarkably good. Part of it was because I was swimming in the afternoon, and I am simply not one who functions well in the morning. The workout went downhill soon after that with me having virtually no energy. I barely got my last 500 in under 7 minutes after swimming a 6:35 for the first one.

I got home, made some dinner, and went about the rest of my evening. A few hours later I touched my arm and it was sore where I had received both the COVID and flu vaccines earlier in the day. Almost smacked my head remembering that of course I was going feel a little lethargic in my swim after a couple of vaccines.

The next day I decided not to swim and simply ride indoors on the trainer twice. Both workouts were pretty difficult as I once again was quite tired. Today I did one workout this morning and felt a little bit better. This is also now the third straight day where I have completely cut out any sort of snacking whatsoever on the foods that I thoroughly enjoy eating. I knew there was no way that there was any actual discernible weight loss in just two days time but I wanted to get on the scale nevertheless. I know I have to take into account everything from the fact that I wasn't wearing clothes, I just sweated off a few pounds on the bike, I had rid myself of all impurities in my body (I pooped and peed), as well as it was a different scale from the first time I had weighed myself on Monday.

Sweaty on a trainer. Barely awake.

That all said, I was down 9 lbs from Monday to 213.8 . Again, I know that I have not lost 9 lbs of fat in that time but I know I have started the process towards losing that and much more I feel good in my ability to make all the changes necessary to lose that weight and get back to running and running fast.
I have run 19 sub-three hour marathons in my life. I turned 49 in May. I have not run a single sub-three hour marathon in my 40s and only have a year left to do so. 

Shockingly, I've only run 8 marathons in the decade of my 40s. Part of that comes from a three-year layoff during COVID and then basically another two years dealing with this knee. But I am putting this goal out there that before I turn 50 I will run another sub-three hour marathon. If I do, that will be just shy of 20 years between my first and most recent sub-three.

I want to continue to show people to Ignore The Impossible.