more bummed than a bummed thing

[dragonlady7]

So I skipped practice Tues night, knowing I should rest my sore knee. Skipped it last night because I looked at the list of planned activities for that night's practice and there was not only a full-intensity scrimmage, there was also a bunch of intensive lateral work, and I was basically guaranteed 100% to re-injure my knee attempting it.
But this morning, I was climbing the walls, so I figured I'd do laundry and while I was down there, sit on the exercise bike down there and give it a good spin. An hour would do me pretty well, right? With a break in the middle to pull the clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer?
I got down there, all in my workout clothes, sat on the thing, pedaled for five minutes, and quit. It was growing increasingly painful in my knee and I kept trying to go slower and push with the other leg, and that wasn't working.
So I am beyond bummed. I hate being injured and totally unable to keep up my conditioning, but what can I do on one leg???

Sigh. I guess I'll go do some Pilates down there? But nothing that involves hands and knees... which takes out most of the stuff I know that's useful.

Grrrr.

Comments

[besina-sartor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Not being able to bend the knee definitely puts a cap on the range of available exercises. Maybe some leg lifts if it doesn't cause pain?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can bend it. It's just that any lateral pressure causes pain. It's not bad pain, I'm just really gun-shy about hurting it worse.

I'm going to try skating tonight, though, since I know the agenda for practice and most of it is stuff I should be able to do. Provided that the normal motion of skating isn't painful. Which I hope it won't be.
I'm just going to have to accept that I haven't done anything remotely athletic at all in over a week now so I'm going to be out of shape, and what with the mucous, I can assume I'll be awfully out of breath as well. Oh well!! At least I had a somewhat-restful week. Ish. :)