A little scary...
7/14/06 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wobblerlorriI've been running recently. I started a baby runner's program of 30 minutes, starting with walking briskly 9 minutes and jogging 1 minute, 3 times in 30 min. Each week you add a minute of jogging and take away a minute of walking, so (theoretically) at the end of 10 weeks you're jogging/running 30 minutes straight.
I'm up to walking 6 minutes and jogging 4 minutes and doing rather well, if I do say so myself. A four minute jog equals one lap of the high school track, in the inside lane, which is roughly equal to 1/6 of a mile. During the entire 30 minutes I'm doing about a mile; I do this three times a week. (And I'm incredibly impressed with myself, since I've never jogged or run a full lap around the football field in my entire life, not even when I was a kid.)
This week I've started challenging myself to pour on some extra steam during the last 30 seconds of the last jog (at 29:30 in the total time). Today I also added 30 seconds to each jog period, so I was doing 4:30 in preparation for next week's move to 5 minutes jogging.
Anyway, here's the scary part:
I shower when I get back to the house (about a 4 minute walk from the track). I came in, turned on the shower, and sat down for a nice piss while the water warmed up. And what surprised me in my underwear? BLOOD!! Looked just like a period starting, but of course I have no uterus, fallopia, or ovaries to encourage this sort of behavior! I checked other possible culprits: anus, any zits that may have popped, the occasional infected hair follicle --- all negative. A quick wipe proved that yes, indeed, it was blood from the cooze. Not a lot, but enough to make me worry.
I figure I caused a surface vein or something to have a fit when I kicked that last 30 seconds. I refuse to obsess over this. I promise I will not start squicking myself with thoughts of the Big C in leftover cervical tissue unless/until it happens again, at which point I will hie myself to a gyno for a probing.
Anyone think this is a cause for alarm? No rough sex lately, no probings into the coozular area, no real other reason besides maybe the running...
Lorri
I'm up to walking 6 minutes and jogging 4 minutes and doing rather well, if I do say so myself. A four minute jog equals one lap of the high school track, in the inside lane, which is roughly equal to 1/6 of a mile. During the entire 30 minutes I'm doing about a mile; I do this three times a week. (And I'm incredibly impressed with myself, since I've never jogged or run a full lap around the football field in my entire life, not even when I was a kid.)
This week I've started challenging myself to pour on some extra steam during the last 30 seconds of the last jog (at 29:30 in the total time). Today I also added 30 seconds to each jog period, so I was doing 4:30 in preparation for next week's move to 5 minutes jogging.
Anyway, here's the scary part:
I shower when I get back to the house (about a 4 minute walk from the track). I came in, turned on the shower, and sat down for a nice piss while the water warmed up. And what surprised me in my underwear? BLOOD!! Looked just like a period starting, but of course I have no uterus, fallopia, or ovaries to encourage this sort of behavior! I checked other possible culprits: anus, any zits that may have popped, the occasional infected hair follicle --- all negative. A quick wipe proved that yes, indeed, it was blood from the cooze. Not a lot, but enough to make me worry.
I figure I caused a surface vein or something to have a fit when I kicked that last 30 seconds. I refuse to obsess over this. I promise I will not start squicking myself with thoughts of the Big C in leftover cervical tissue unless/until it happens again, at which point I will hie myself to a gyno for a probing.
Anyone think this is a cause for alarm? No rough sex lately, no probings into the coozular area, no real other reason besides maybe the running...
Lorri
