Yup, that's right I finally was able to swim :) Easy/steady swim, just getting back into the groove of training and trying to be careful with the leg. While swimming sometimes I start kicking like usual and the knee hurts just a tad (nothing bad at all it is more discomfort which I guess is part of the bruise/fracture). Overall it was a great swim but man, my lats/shoulders are super tired. Swimming + walking with crutches = ouch!

LMAO, look at the pic after the race with shannon and trixie (look at my face ;)) No wonder the fracture didn't hurt that much at the time!

Pool isn't open today, oh well, I'll rest up another day and swim tomorrow :)

Thank you everyone again for the inspires, PM and email, you are the BEST! :)

In particular thanks to Sue for taking the time to review some of my MRI pics and results. (you rock big time!) and because of that I'll try to do some swimming tomorrow, if I find a pool open, yay!

above you can see the pic of the fracture. the yellow arrows are pointing to the fracture on the tibia, as you can see the fracture went vertically all the way from top to bottom across the bone. The good thing is that it isn't displaced and it should be easier and maybe faster to heal. Anyway, do you guys know if it is true that taking more calcium on my diet might help to speed up the process?

I guess the MD who saw me last Tuesday is gone for the long weekend holiday, LMAO! Luckily I have that appointment with my friend otherwise I would have waited until next Tuesday (at best) to hear my knee diagnose… isn't that special! I am not sure how but I’ll look into filing a complaint because apparently this clown’s vacation is more important that my knee. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and let’s hope for a second that I have nothing major; still it would be nice to know what I can or can’t do no? Anyway, my knee is definitely NOT ok, cuz it hurts when I walk and it feels just weird when I do certain movements. Oh well, against my nature I am been kind of pessimistic about this and I am just afraid that the high expectations I had about this season will be compromise due to inconsistent training and I end up having just another ok season instead of the breakthrough kind I’ve been hoping/working for…

Whining alert... IT IS OFICIAL, it seems I’ll be out of action between 4 to 8 weeks as I have bone bruising with superimposed non-displaced fracture in the tibial. :(   It seems that when I ran into the lake at the beach start my right leg landed funny and the top bone of the leg impacted the bottom one fracturing a piece of it (ouch! No wonder it hurts a lot ;))

Tic... tac... tic... tac... still waiting on the MD to discuss my MRI results, WTF? I am calling him at noon if I haven't heard anything back from him.

On another news, my body is been feeling kind of blah. I guess it is because of the knee issue, been tired from the race, allergies and the lack of exercise. whatever it is I've been sleeping a lot and I been having a constant headache for 3 days! I think I need to pay attention to my diet again cuz leading to FL and during the race I ate a lot of carbs and food I would normally don't eat. I need to start using my Jack Lalanne power juicer and drink my daily spinach, carrot, celery, wheat grass and apple, YUM! :)  Also later today or tomorrow I am heading to finally get a new car. I am still on the fence about what to get, originally I wanted the Honda element but it just seems too much for me considering I live in the city and won't drive much at all. I kind like smaller cars hence I am considering the Honda Fit but we'll see...

nice swim, arms still a bit fatigue and knee is hanging in there