'Twas a Banner Day!

 
Notice anything different??? 

My feet are wearing the same shoes. Woohoo!!! Good news on the footfront. Its healed; yet tender and tired. The caveat is to wear the sneakers until it aches and hurts, then break out the boot. I wore shoes for about 8 hours, moving around, but not bouncing off the rafters. and I'm good with that for a first day. Bonus!!! I don't have to sleep with it on anymore.

And then!!!

My first purchase of Basic Grey Warehouse box.

Its kind of like a grab bag with an attitude.

It wasn't what I thought it would be. 

I was thinking more lines, howevever, its about the

warehouse getting rid of old product to make room for the new.

I'm sure I'll be using quite a bit of this as Basic Grey

has always been my go-to line.

Especially when the mojo tanked.

The package of alphas - are alphas from all the lines and the embellishments

are the same - got stamps, bling, rubons, flowers, and enamels.

Lots of goodies.

The album is adorable - really adorable and I'll probably

dither about doing something with it because its 

really really adorable. LOL!

First day back at Crossfit

And this is week 34, (like who's counting LOL). And there's my fancy footwear workout attire. The sneaker actually evens out with boot so I don't rock around like a weeble.

Since there is no running, no jumping, no weights. Dumb-bells didn't count and I worked them from the flloors - doing push presses and fliers (kinda like spreading the ole wings).

 It was tougher than it looked and another area to work on. 

Shocking.

Then I did what I normally do v-ups, leaning squats (staying off the bum foot) and more dumbbell work - push presses standing up. 10 each and I managed 5 rounds in 9 minutes. 

Came home and took a 2 hour nap - after relaxing in the pool - which felt good on the foot since it was 81 degrees and cool (for me). 

I'll be there with boot on tomorrow!

Boot Baby Steps

It took 3 days out of the week to get it all together since we decided to not go the emergency room route. I had extremely high hopes that it would be a temporary thing that would go away with ice and ibprofen so why waste an ER visit.

My extremely high hopes were dashed Monday morning.

Fortunately I have a great doctor that saves emergency spots and was able to work me in and get me a scrip for an xray. On day two I got a diagnosis of nondisplaced fracture and a referral to a podiatrist.

On day 3 I got my boot.

I get to wear the boot everyday along with using crutches for at least 3 weeks. Once the pain subsides I can go crutchless, and another xray to check progress.

On the 4th day I decided to check out the logistics of doing a crossfit WOD.
             
I located dumbells in the closet, dusted off the cobwebs and tried bicep curls. And then I remembered they could be substituted for one armed KB swings. Now the floor work. I decided on situps and modified push ups.
                               Thursday WOD - 3 rounds
                                 20 one armed KB swings with a dumbell                        (10 each arm)
                                 20 sit ups
                                 20 push ups

I was able to squat down and pick up the dumbell and stand. As long as I stayed on my heels which is where I supposed to be I didn't feel any pressure on my foot. Getting up and down on the floor has always been ackward for me because of the knees, all I needed to do was pay attention to the injured foot.

I did well but forgot to time the WOD because I wanted to concentrate on the logistics on moving.

Along came day 5 (Friday) and I wanted to WOD again. Because of limited space and the success I had the day before I kept the same WOD and this time remembered to time it.

9:32 - not too shabby with a gimpy boot. 

Can't wait until Monday - My plan is to check out the WOD ahead of time and check with the trainer. If its not something that can be modified well; I'll go to open gym.

Gotta keep babying the foot and keep going.

Got the boot!

And aren't I just the fashion diva.

And if you'll notice my nanos are close by.

I was diagnosed with a Jones fracture. 

Naturally, its one of the hardest ones to heal because

of its tricky location.

So the boot and the crutches will be my friend for 3 weeks.

Ackward.

After 3 weeks and the pain subsides I can just wear the boot.

Yay!

Until then I will be formulating a plan to keep whatever

progress I made in Crossfit going.

The dr. was aghast.

LOL.

Love that I that I can still shock people.