Things are rough all over

0jeff • 5th Feb 2010 • exercise, random • running

I’ve neglected the site over the past few months.  There are a couple of reasons for that but none of them are particularly good so I won’t even bother with it.

Training for the marathon has been really tough this year.  On a normal training run after our 15 miler, my foot started hurting right where I broke it in February last year.  I went to the doctor and she thought it was broken again but wasn’t 100% sure.  She ordered an MRI, and said no running for 3 weeks.  While my foot hurt, it turns out that it wasn’t broken.  The doc’s feeling wast that it was very close to breaking again, but I stopped just short of that.

It’s obviously a good thing that it didn’t break, but I lost three weeks of training in the middle of the season.  When I finally got cleared to run again, I got sick and lost another week.  4 weeks is just too much to make up 2 months out from the marathon.  This year I won’t be doing the full, just the half.  I’m bummed about it, but there’s really no other choice unless I want to do a lot of walking.  That’s just not my style.

The good news is that I found a follow up run a few weeks later.  A group of 10 of us are going to do the Texas Independence Relay from Gonzales, TX to the San Jacinto Memorial in Houston.  That’s 203 total miles in 2 days!  We’ve got vans rented and everything and are pumped.  Just about everyone on the team is from my marathon training group so it’s going to be a blast.

I’ve got lots of other stuff to talk about and will be updating more frequently now.  Until next time…