i had my bone scan today, followed by an x-ray. luckily i live close to the hospital so i was able to go there first thing in the morning, get some sort of calcium-like injection that helps the bone scan see bone fractures more clearly, go home for two hours while the liquid injection made its way through my body, then return to the hospital for the scan. supposedly my doctor won't have the results until at least thursday so i hope that i'll have an official diagnosis by the end of the week. as time goes on this whole ordeal becomes increasingly frustrating for me. i haven't had this much downtime in almost two years, the last time being when i had to have surgery on my leg in the fall of '07. that put me out for the entire winter and i was still limping in february, three months after the operation. i'm doing what i can to keep my fitness up; i'm running in the pool when time permits and am still riding to work as much as possible, but i haven't gone for a "real" ride in two weeks. riding doesn't seem to aggravate the injury but i'm not pushing it, and when i'm at the gym i'm only doing very light strengthening exercises. that's what it's about these days: keeping things very light until i know for sure what's going on with my leg. i haven't gotten my heart rate up, nor have i worked up a sweat in a couple of weeks.
some good news is that i went for a very easy, light 20-minute run yesterday afternoon to see how it felt. for sure things were way, waaaay better than they have been in a few weeks, but still definitely not 100% and i was hurting afterwards. other good news is that the strengthening exercises seem to be paying off because the pain no longer seems to be muscle related.
aaaarrrghhh... this is so frustrating. i want to be out there training. i want to go for a real ride. i want to get back into it. i was planning on racing in cobourg this past weekend but had to withdraw because of the injury. as hard as that decision was, it was probably a very wise one, even though judging by the times i likely would have walked away with a victory. two more races are left on my race calendar for 2009 and i'd like to be at both of them.
