Progress!
Pain free run, swelling free evening. YEAH!!!!
Argh. Just when you think you have everything figured out… My boss schedules a meeting smack dab in the middle of my planned 20 mile adventure. Yes, I know, I shouldn’t be scheduling this on an work-day afternoon… but I specifically stayed until past 8pm one evening and 10pm another to make this happen, not…
Oh, boy — where do I start?!? Monday started off great. I literally stared my noon run thinking, “Wow, I’m strong – I’m so excited to start those 100+ mile weeks!”. At about 2.5 miles, I stepped on my foot weird. Not sure why, since I was on pavement and there wasn’t anything I hit…
First, the absolute BEST news: I WILL BE RUNNING FOR BROOKS AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!!! I am so, so, SO grateful! What an awesome company. Despite the dismal end to my first year with them, I have the opportunity to chase that 2016 Qualifier with the Brooks logo in 2014! I am so thankful to be…
Fargo marathon is less than 10 weeks away. That’s a little scary. Especially since this week is supposed to be my first big week. And, of course, I’m coming down with a cold. Argh. I’m still healthy enough to do base mileage, but sick enough where I know I’d have to work pretty hard to…
I check my blog stats often, and thought it would be fun to share some of the fun ones with y’all: Old runner motivation massage pic – Interesting… I can how you’d search for each of the individual words: “old runner” (am I really old?!?), “motivation”, “massage”, and “pic”… but all of them combined? Curious…
Just a quick update – I headed to the U of MN to see Dr. Bond (could there BE a cooler name than that?) on Tuesday. Like so many of you suggested, I just explained where my head and heart were at. He started out by asking me about my symptoms, how I thought I…