Injury and Recovery

Last year’s running did not go as planned. I was ambitious and signed up for plenty of spring races and was training accordingly. Then just at the very beginning of the spring racing season as I was running a nice trail run my leg started hurting like a bad cramp. I walked the rest of the first loop hoping my leg would quit hurting. It took almost two months for my leg to get better sufficiently to start running again. I believe it must have been a stress fracture. So when I could start running again I worked on getting my running mussels back in shape and trained for the September half marathon. Training was going well and I was ready when a week before I pulled something in my leg. I rested from running for the rest of the week in hopes of being able to run the half marathon. I got up early drove over and started the race but ended up turning back and going home since my leg was not better. I needed to rest several weeks and had a slight relapse so my training had been very patchy when the November half marathon came. My leg held out for that and I was happy to be able to finish it although it challenging and I was slow as expected. I am now running regularly again if still slowly and trying not to overdo it. I am hoping to avoid more overuse injuries this year.

Oh hi again

We did do the Turkey Trot again.

This time with Megs.

We are still doing Zombies Run.

It is cold. 

Kathryn and Licia and I are doing a relay marathon in Feburary.

I am not remotely ready.

Licia is of course ready and Kathryn tells me she is doing hour plus runs routinely.

I will bug them for updates.

I am thinking strongly of joining a gym to deal with the cold and get more miles in.