Day 2 done! Love how youâre not letting your injury get in your way @Jesile 
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Thatâs because @Jesile is a bad-ass!
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Day 2 done - early days are easy to mix in with other routines.
Wm Shakespeare, Richard II
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends
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23 Sit-ups
14 (15 accidentally) Squats
30 sec Plank
12 (15 accidentally) Push-ups
I may have forgotten and didnât feel like looking again⊠I guess better than coming up short lol
Way to go @Jesile at finding that squat challenge. I know how much it sucks to have an injury mess with our fitness goals/needs.
Great on @tailee17 @elephanttail @SinceIAwoke for the triumphant returns! I truly love these little challenges with you fine people. See you all tomorrow 
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Day 3 Completed.. I had to add an exercise daily. It is called 'âGetting up off the floorâ.
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Day 3 done 
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Day 3 done!
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I that similar to the âgetting out of bedâ ? 
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Day 3 done and it motivated me to go ahead and ride the bike even though I didnât want to.
Bill Shakespeare, Othello
Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
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25 Sit-ups
16 Squats
30 second Plank
14 Push-ups
Letâs keep the great momentum @tailee17 @Jesile @Elephanttail @SinceIAwoke
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Day 4 done!
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Day 4 
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Day 4 done!
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Day 4-ish. I felt the strong need to rest today, cancelled by gym sesh and only did kettlebell squats at home. I will make up the day tomorrow.
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turnâd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
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If the body asks for some rest, give it some rest! 
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I got my MRI results interpreted yesterday. I have noticeable but not serious enough for surgery micro-tears in my left Achilles. Lots of swelling in the soft tissue - basically a seriously pissed off ankle and heel. At some point in time, I did have an injury where a small piece of bone was pulled off the ankle by the tendon - must have been one of the more serious sprains I had in high school and then when I very first started running 30 years ago.
The treatment is going to be pretty cool - physical therapy to reduce swelling and increase strength and flexibility, and a nitroglycerin skin patch for 6 weeks, to promote blood flow and healing. After that, we might move to a platelet treatement, where they take a vial of blood out of me, spin it down to the platelets and plasma, and inject that into the Achilles site, again to promote aggressive healing. Tendons in general, and the Achilles in particular have very low blood flow, and it is blood flow that will do the most to heal it.
What Iâve learned as an athlete is how to train and race with pain. There has almost never been a time in this journey that I have been free of chronic low-level and sometimes (like my bike crash 7 years ago) spikes of acute pain. Itâs exactly like staying sober with variable levels of mental and emotional health - we do it anyway. And sometimes, we retreat back to specifically address the pain/injury or the un-sober ways we move in the world, until things improve.
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Oh my sending healing vibes!
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Oh boy, that doesnât sound to well at all! I guess you know your body best, and you know what you can do and donât! I wish you a speedy recovery! 
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Day 5 done! + I went for a 40-minute walk after my 8-hour home office shift. The fresh air felt good!
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