A Relaxing Couple of Days at the Beach
After an absolutely fantastic time on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday enjoying wedding festivities, Bill and I embraced just chillin’ on Sunday and Monday, our last two days on the Outer Banks. We left our beach house around 2 PM on Monday and got home just in time to get unpacked and ready for our work week.
Is it Vacuuming, Running on the Sand, Sitting in the Car, or Just Getting Old?
As the day wore on Tuesday on my first day back to work, I felt a familiar pain in my lower back/SI joint area. By mid-afternoon I had to pop some Advil so I could continue seeing clients. As I analyzed my predicament, it dawned on my that I’d experienced that pain before, and that time as well, it was just after coming home from the beach.
Two years ago, after spending almost two weeks at our beach house, I wrote the following in my weekly recap, “In trying to determine what caused my pain, I think it was the perfect storm of running on the soft uneven sand, vacuuming, and then sitting in the car for several hours on our drive home without an opportunity to move around.”
If my SI joint is being aggravated by running on the camber of the beach at low tide, I don’t understand why it doesn’t hurt after my other beach runs. If it’s from the car ride, why doesn’t it hurt after my ride to the beach? By process of elimination, it must be caused by vacuuming as I clean the beach house before we close it up to drive home.
Just like with the previous time, after about three days I felt good as new. Who knew vacuuming was so dangerous? So what’s a runner girl to do? Stop vacuuming, I think! 😉
Global Running Day
Sadly, I couldn’t run on Global Running Day because I played it smart and put the recovery of my little setback first, something hard for runners to do. It was the first time I’ve missed running on the first Wednesday of June since I first heard it was a thing. Just for fun, here’s a picture from four years ago, even if I did call it National Running Day…
Dinner with our Neighbors
My husband could eat Indian food every day. I on the other hand, am far less adventuresome. In fact, growing up in the south, adding pepper to food was our way of spicing things up!
My first introduction to Indian food was when I trained clients at a wellness center owned by a doctor from Pakistan. He would bring feasts into the office for us to enjoy, but always told us that he toned down the spices for our American palates.
When our next door neighbors invited us and two other couples over for dinner, we were excited to try our friend Gurpreet’s culinary skills. The appetizers were very tasty and even though I don’t think she toned anything down, they were not too spicy for this simple girl.
Her combination of meat and vegetarian dishes was perfect and delicious, and even though she warned me that the chicken was very spicy, I really liked it. I even went back for seconds!
And Now on to a RunDown of this Past Week’s Workouts…
Running
Sunday’s run was at low tide along the beach in front of our house. While out running, I saw two different herds of horses, but didn’t see this year’s foal. In fact, we didn’t see it at all on our trip, but friends who took the wild horse tour saw it and last year’s colt.
As I mentioned earlier, my SI joint was bothering me most of the week, so I wisely skipped my mid-week run. By Saturday, though, I felt fine and enjoyed a run with two of my girlfriends, Lupe and Kim.
Biking
I didn’t make it outside on Zephyr this past week, but managed to sneak in a 12-mile ride on my spin bike (affiliate link) after Saturday morning’s run.
Strength Training
A couple of years ago, I took my dad‘s dumbbells down to the beach house and filled in the missing sizes with inexpensive ones I purchased at Play it Again Sports. I’m still missing 25-pounders which I forgot to purchase to take with me this trip. Complete with a yoga mat, I’m good to go while at the beach.
Sunday morning’s cool breeze made it perfect for an outdoor workout.
Yoga
What better place than at the beach to do sun salutations?
It’s on the Blog
In case you skipped checking in on my blog this past week, here’s what you missed…
Coming up this week…
- Tuesday – Bike NY Five Boro Bike Tour Recap
- Thursday – DC Bike Ride Recap
In addition to the workouts I mentioned above, here’s a complete rundown of my workouts from this past week (completed mostly in our home gym)…
- Questions:
- What’s the coolest selfie you’ve taken? With whom or what? ~ I think wild horses make for a pretty good backdrop!
- What’s your favorite type of food?
- Did you race this weekend?
And that’s my rundown… Have a great week!
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I’m linking up with Deborah at Confessions of a Mother Runner and Kim from Running on the Fly for their Weekly Run Down. Be sure to check out not only the hosts’ posts, but the other great bloggers joining in on the fun!
I think that back pain is a great excuse to get someone else to do all of your vacuuming! My hamstrings and glutes kill me on long car rides.I had the hardest time driving back from Indiana last month. I can’t sit like that either
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I do have someone else do my vacuuming at home, but the beach house is small so we clean it ourselves when we leave. Perhaps I should switch jobs with Bill and I put up the hurricane shutters while he vacuums. 😀
Sitting in a car is hard for me, too. I actually cut a yoga wedge in half and put it in my car seat to make my seat flat rather than curving down in the back which helps me tremendously!
I love doing my workouts outside, even if it’s a bit cumbersome hauling the dumbbells (along with my phone and paperwork). I try to incorporate higher reps (if I have a lower-weight dumbbell) to avoid bringing out more than one set. My back is killing me tonight…too much gardening squatting and bending/yanking. I’d LOVE to avoid doing that task! Thanks for linking with us!
I hope your back is feeling better by now!
At home, I usually don’t haul many of my weights outside. On really nice days, I’ll have my clients do lunges or kettlebell squat and swings on the deck.
I love Indian food but don’t get to eat it very often. I love the spice.
I think running with horses (so to speak) makes for an amazing selfie. I can’t imagine that happening in California!
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Horses running on the beach in California… Perhaps it might happen on a movie set. 😉
Sounds like a great week. Running by those wild horses would be amazing!
As many years as I’ve been seeing wild horses around the beach house and by the ocean, it’s still an amazing sight!
Love the use of the chalkboard to tell you what you’re eating. I like Indian, but am not super adventerous. Sushi is my crack
The horses remind me of camels I saw on the beach in Broome – I don’t think I got a selfie but I can still see the image in my mind. Magical moment.
Housekeeping is definitely dangerous!
Oh yeah, camels on the beach would be pretty cool, too. We used to have a buffalo roaming with cows on the beach, but as more houses were built, the county made the farmer move the herd.
Bummer about the SI Joint Pain. I’ve had that before and it is not fun! Love that you get to run on the beach with horses. How very cool!
Thanks, it’s feeling completely back to normal now.
Good for you for trying the Pakistani food! I love it too. I’m glad you found out that you glute pain is due to vacuuming. I wish I could say the same thing. Vacuuming is one chore I despise!
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A much younger Deb might not have been so adventuresome with eating! LOL
Wild horses definitely make for a great run-selfie! Such a beautiful place to visit!
I love your makeshift gym 🙂 Gotta get in the strength training!
The horse are a fun addition to our beach life. During the high heat of the summer, they stay on the sound side of the island where there’s some shade so we don’t see them as often.
We have wild horses in Meinerswijk – an nature area in Arnhem just over the Rhein. We often go there biking or running (you can get a good 10 mile run in from home to there, all around the area and back home) because of the horses and the cows just hanging out down there. I LOVE it. Sometimes, especially if I’m feeling down, I’ll purposely go out there to get a boost from seeing them. I am certain I have a selfie with them in my thousands of photos. But I don’t know what the coolest selfie has been.
Too bad your SI was acting up again but definitely stop vacuuming 😉 Great that you managed to get out on Saturday.
as far as food goes – I like all kinds of food! i LOVE indian food (but it does vary from region to region) and my husband cooks a lot of Indian food for us. He’s off to India again at the end of the month so I expect him to come home with a renewed desire to cook new dishes for us. I love Mexican too, but i have to make that myself here and can’t always get the ingredients.
It’s cool that you can experience the wild horses, too!
I think our neighbors said they were serving Northern Indian food. She grew up in Canada, but cooks using recipes her mom brought over with her from the northern region and I believe he’s from around the same area.
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