Happy new year everyone!

[Guest guest]

I've been out of the loop the last few weeks with the holidays and

being on vacation last week and just wanted to say happy new year!

My fitness " routine " will unfortunately have to take a back seat for

at least a week. During our vacation last week, which was a skiing

vacation, Gilbert decided to book us snowboarding lessons while

Jordan went for his skiing lessons. OMG! Snowboarding is really

difficult! I fell, many, many many times... always on my left

buttock. The last fall I took, it hurt so bad, that I saw stars and

thought I was going to faint. As the " tough " person I wanted to be,

after the lesson, I decided that even though my butt was really

really painful, that I wanted to put on my skiis for a few runs. The

first slope (a black diamond) was so hard to do, I couldn't turn on

the left. But I went back up there, a few times, decreasing

the " difficulty " of the slope each time because of increasing pain in

my buttock.

After the day, I could still walk, but sitting had become an

impossible task. I woke up yesterday even worse than the day before,

with swelling of my left buttock. Today, I'm even worse, I can't sit

down, can't stand up, can't lie down, but I can walk a bit. I was

told a have a hematoma of my left gluteus maximus muscle, a frequent

injury with beginning snowboarders. But also told that I might have

to stop running or lower body weight training for at least 2 weeks

On the good side of things, Jordan absolutely loved skiing (having

rented his equipment, he was very sad to see it go back), and we've

decided to invest in equipement for him and will be taking him skiing

a few times this winter (we live 30 minutes from the biggest skiing

area in the province, over 200 trails). Now that I'm confined to the

bunny slopes for a few weeks, this will be a good time to teach him

the fundamentals. I expect that once winter is over, he will be

almost independent on skis (according to the ski instructor he had

last week). He's 2 and a half years old by the way, and I'm an

especially proud mommy right now. This is one fitness activity that

we will be able to include as quality family time as well.

Before my injury, I was able to squeeze in 4 workouts (not counting

skiing days) during the week, so I was pretty proud of myself as well.

Well, have a great week, and wish me luck for a quick recovery with

my buttock injury (so weird to say) so I can still continue to train

for the half marathon in April.

Janick

PS Welcome to all the newbies!