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Rockstars!

November 11, 2010 By 3 Comments

Training walks are the single best way to ready your body and spirit for participating in The 3 Day for the Cure.  Unfortunately for me, mostly because of my rural location and husbands work schedule, I have to do most of my training walks alone.  This is okay, but certainly not the most fun way to train.

Today, I had a request from the Filipino Press to do an interview.  The reporter wanted to experience a training walk with me.  I decided it would be a great chance to get “down the hill” and participate in a training with other walkers.

Susan met up with me at the Mission Bay Visitors Center where we found the other walkers.  We then found Lesli who was our leader.

I don’t really know what I was thinking, but it never occurred to me that Susan would be coming on a twelve mile walk with us.  I just figured she would hang out for a bit, do my interview and then head home.  But no.  She wanted to experience the walk.  Ok.  Crazy, but Ok.  Built in to the training walk was an 8 mile option and Susan said she would go 8 miles.

Wow.  Rockstar!

Training commenced and Susan and I were at the back of the pack just chatting away.  I’m always the slow one anyways so it was working out well.  About five miles into the walk, Susan ran out of water and we stopped to get her some.  This is when we asked “where is the eight mile turn around” at?

Ooohh..but that happened a while back.  We were on the 13 mile loop!  Oh. No!

POOR SUSAN!

I felt terrible.  I apologized over and over to Susan who just smiled and laughed.  Lesli offered to call her husband to come get us and take us back to our cars.  But Susan was amazing and said she would Keep Going®.

We did end up taking a bit of a short cut and it made our total distance end up a t 11.64 miles.  This is the longest I have gone and was thrilled with myself!

Susan got one heck of a training experience story!  As soon as I get a copy of it, I’ll share it with you.

Here is a picture of the group entering Crown Point Shores, which incidentally will be the location of the San Diego Camp.

That’s right baby!  The pink posse is moving in.  It will be a very special event indeed.

I was so happy to spend the morning with this group of ladies.  I can’t thank Lesli enough for making me feel included and for running back to check on Susan and I.  I can’t thank Susan enough for being an honorary 3 Day for the Cure walker.  I think I might actually have her talked into participating with me next year…we’ll see!

One week left.

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More Fashionable Footwear

November 2, 2010 By 4 Comments

I’ve been wearing my walking cast for six weeks now and, it looks like I’ll be wearing it for {at least} another six weeks, too.

I went to my Orthopedist today to get checked up.  I have to say that I love this doctor!  If you need an Ortho, she is Dr. Rina Jain of San Diego Sports Medicine.  She is really trying to get my foot ready to be able to participate in the 3 Day.  She is supportive of the fight against breast cancer and I just love that she’s understanding of my goals.  I think a lot of doctors would be all, “heck no, you can’t walk!” But, Dr. Jain is making this work.

Training has been pretty much non-existent lately.  I’ve gotten a few three mile walks in here and there, but it’s hard walking in this contraption.  First, I am about two inches taller in the boot.  So this means that my New Balance walking shoe is too low and therefor I walk with a huge limp.  Because of this, my hip and back are really out of whack and I’m in a lot of pain after a walk.  Besides that, this boot just is not made for long distance walking.  Simple as that.

Dr. Jain has given me another “shoe” to try.  It’s actually the shoe they give to people in a traditional cast so that they don’t have to walk on crutches.  It’s got a much thinner, very ridged sole.  So now I am even with my sneaker.  This will still make it so that I still can not flex and do more damage to my stress fracture, but it should be easier to do longer distances (no limp, not as hot, etc).

I wore this around a little today.  I’m not sure how it is going to work.  It seems to slip on the heel more than I would like.  But, I am going to try it out tomorrow morning by attempting a five mile training walk.

Wish me luck!

Supporting The 3-Day Participants

If you happen to know someone who is walking in the San Diego 3 Day for the Cure {*cough*me*cough*},you can send them a little love and encouragement right to camp.

You are encouraged to send letters to participants and they will be delivered right to their tent by 3 Day crew members!  Isn’t that fun?  Here is the info you need to send a letter:

Send letters to:
3-Day for the Cure
ATTN: INSERT NAME OF PARTICIPANT (my name is Rhea Tabler…you know…just in case)
P.O. Box 721237
San Diego, CA 92172

Envelopes only, please. No boxes or large packages. Mail must be postmarked no later than November 9 in order to ensure delivery at the 3-Day for the Cure Camp Post Office. Please note: This address is not the actual location of camp, but a PO Box for mail delivery only. Any mail that is not postmarked by the date above or retrieved by the participant by December 5 will be destroyed.

Cheering Stations for San Diego are posted on The 3 Day website, but I’ll post them here for you next week so you can come out and cheer on the walkers (I’ll be the one wearing a giant ugly shoe).

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Well, Ain’t This a Darn Shame

September 28, 2010 By 33 Comments

Turns out, I DO have a stress fracture.

Big fat bummer.

My regular doctor did x-rays a couple weeks ago and no breaks showed up.  But my foot still hurt, and seemed to be getting worse.  So I asked, “if it’s not a stress fracture, then what is it?”  So off to an Orthopedic specialist I went.  She ordered an MRI.  Lo and behold…there is a stress fracture that the x-ray missed.

So now, I am wearing this ever-so-fashionable walking cast thing-a-ma-bob. I think I will go to the craft store and find some pink glitter puffy paints so I can fancy it up a bit.  I hate that it’s so drab.

But you know what I hate worse than the drabness?

I hate that I can’t go on training walks  for my 3 Day!

And that sucks.  Eggs.  Big fat rotten stinky eggs.

But I will not let this deter me from my mission.  I will Keep Going®!

My ortho doctor told me that she has seen stress fractures take many months (up to a year) to completely heal.  I have 8 weeks until the San Diego Susan G. Komen 3 Day for the Cure.  I will wear my (soon to be) pink glittered boot around the clock (unfortunately, it’s my right foot so I have to remove it to drive).  And I am now on a mission to find a stationary bike so that I can still exercise without putting any stress on my foot bone.  I hope that by riding the bike, I can still lose some weight, increase my endurance and overall health so that I will still be able to walk come November.

What do you think?

Totally doable.

Just tell  me that it is.

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It’s Not Broke!

August 31, 2010 By 7 Comments

I called my family doctor yesterday to find out the results of my foot x-rays.  Turns out I DO NOT have a stress fracture!

**HAPPY DANCE**

Of course they have no idea what is wrong with my foot and I should just try to “rest” it.

Um…yeah.  Okay.

Not.

Don’t they know I have a 60 mile walk to train for?  I must Keep Going®!

They did call me in a prescription, but it was only for Motrin.  I don’t know about you, but Motrin doesn’t do much for me.  I live on Advil as it is (and Advil is just over-the-counter Motrin).  So, I will start my training up again tonight with a short walk (maybe 3 miles) at our High School track.  This way, I won’t be far from my car in case my foot starts to give me grief.  I plan on taking it easy with short walks, but I definitely need to Keep Going with my training if I want to succeed come November.

And, in case you are wondering about my impending breast biopsy…there is no word on it, yet.  I’m actually really frustrated about it.  I’ve called my OB every single day since Wednesday (which is when they were supposed to have my radiology reports), and they have not called me back yet.  I’ve left 5 messages for a call back.  Nothing.  Don’t get me started.  This is only to schedule the biopsy, I’m not sure why it’s this difficult.

So, that’s what’s up with me.  How about you?

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Training for a 60 Mile Walk is Hard

August 24, 2010 By 8 Comments

I took on the daunting task of training for the 3 Day for the Cure® hoping that it would be a great way for me to lose weight, get healthy and also fight for an important cause.  I have been preparing.  I have been walking.  I have been trying to learn all that I can so that I can do this successfully.

It’s not been as easy as I thought it would be.

I am overweight, so even walking has been hard.  I am having problems with my knee.  “Dr. Google” makes me think it is likely a ligament pull from doing too much too soon.  But really.  I was sedentary for a very long time.  Anything is proving to be too much.  I’m also having problems with my foot.  I have no idea what that’s all about.  But it hurts.  Bad.

Last night I planned on walking 3 miles and only made it 2.25.  And that 2.25 was very painful.  It is hard to walk when you can’t focus on anything but the pain in your foot.

I think I better make a phone call to my doctor so I can figure out what is going on and what I need to do to fix it.

I feel like I am in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.  I can continue to sit and do nothing, remain overweight, and then I wouldn’t have all these new pains to deal with.  How is a fat girl supposed to get skinny when it hurts so bad to move?

It hurts to walk.  It hurts to sit.

I live in a small, rural town outside of San Diego.  Ramona.  I have been having a hard time finding people to even walk with up here.  All of my longer walks I’ve had to do alone and that stinks.  Time goes so much faster when you have friends to chat with.  So I volunteered to be an official Training Walk Leader.  Tonight I am supposed to lead my first ever 5/10 mile training walk.  I’m excited but nervous, too.  Nobody has RSVP’d but that doesn’t mean nobody will show up.  I hope someone comes!  I also hope my foot and knee cooperate so that I can make it.  At 13 weeks till the event, I need to start getting some mileage under my feet.

Now, to top off my feeling sorry for myself post, I had my follow up breast ultrasound yesterday.  Turns out, I’ve got a lump that needs a biopsy.  How’s that for irony?

I am grateful that I am the Energizer® Keep Going® Blogger.  If I hadn’t made the decision to participate in this event, I never would have decided to have the mammogram that found this lump.  I would just appreciate your happy booby thoughts once again that this lump is nothing serious.

In the meantime…I’ll just Keep Going® and hope that my aches and pains resolve themselves somehow.

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