Archive for May 29th, 2009

In my last post, I mentioned having to walk home on Tuesday due to some mystery pain in my leg.  The next day, I got 2 miles in and noticed that same lateral kneeish/calfish area was giving me the weird business again so I stopped and kneaded it a bit, which made it feel runnable for a short stretch, but then it went back to wonky.  I ended up walking back home again because with all the progress I’m making, I simply can’t afford to mess around with injury.

I iced it and tried to roll it but couldn’t find the spot (lower then IT insert).  I wasn’t too too freaked out because I couldn’t feel it except during running, but still…it scared me.

So yesterday I took a day off (first in 3 weeks) and popped 3 Ibuprofen in the AM and 3 in the PM just to whack any inflammation that might be in there.  I also stayed outta my dark imagination, despite Doggie Girl informing me her running partner had just got a bad stress fracture and would be booting it for 12 weeks (I always think “that could be me”).

So instead of worrying, I spent the day productively for the first time in awhile, finally starting to make sense of the t-shirt fiasco, which helped my mental status considerably.   I looked out the window once, wishing I could run, then enjoyed sitting on my butt the rest of the day.

Today, I woke up with “should I, shouldn’t I?” in mind.  I could take another day off (haven’t had 2 consecutive days off since January) or I could go on a short run today and see what happened.  Since I couldn’t feel anything at all, I chanced it – went out for 5 miles and yay, oh yay, nary a peep.  So I’m uber relieved, though will remain careful the rest of the week, cutting down my mileage to an easy 7 tomorrow and 10 or 11 on Sunday.  Better safe than sorry.

Hurty talk aside, I want to give a shoutout to a few gal-pals marathoning this week.  Best of luck, Kat, Jackie, Barb and Julie.  I’ll be thinking of you gals tearing it up.  One for you too, Dog, have a great Half.

Everybody else, have a fabulous weekend and stay healthy, all of you!