Friday, September 28, 2012



I started to update this blog a few weeks ago, but i forgot my password and have changed it so many times, i just couldn't get back in to my blog!!!
SO i changed it again today and will update. 8 weeks of training can be summed up in three words:
Injuries = undertrained!!

I made the 2 long runs of 14 miles and with the help of a friend, Cyndie, i also finished the 16 miler. Without Cyndie, that run would have been way less successful.
That was 6 weeks ago. Then the next week on my short runs, my foot hurt so bad i went to the urgent care and had it xrayed. Nothing appeared, but it i was instructed to stay off it for a couple days. That rest did not do very much good, and it continued to hurt. So i went back to my sports med doctor, and he re-xrayed the foot. An inflamed tendon was the cause, the tendon that wraps around the entire forefront of the foot. That was 3 weeks ago. I took some steroids, and 2 weeks ago ran a painful 10 miler.
So next week is the marathon, and when it arrives I will not have run but once for the last 7 weeks. Longest training run, 7 weeks out from the race, was 16 miles.
On this coming Monday i have an appt to get a cortisone shot in my knee and i will discuss for the last time with my doctor whether 26 miles will further injure my foot, or will be ok.
I am ready, with a changed plan of a LOT more walking than i had envisioned last year when i signed up to start the journey for this event. I am so undertrained for what i had hoped for. But i have been spinning my life away and doing cycling on weekends. So i have not been a complete couch potato!!!!

I have a 'strategy' and time frames i hope to reach. But i also have a backup plan, and that is to accept if my journey turns into - just to make the cut off time.
I will never know what i can get accomplished here unless i show up and give it my best effort.