I ran today for the first time since last Monday. This is the longest that I have gone without running for years and years and years and years . . . .
I ran 2.2 miles this morning at 5:30AM.
No music - - -just the moon and my labored breathe. The chest cold that I have had for the past week makes for interesting sounds . . . .
I am going to run again tomorrow. The tendonitis in my right knee seems to be very happy with me for taking time off. Tendonitis as a whole does not usually slow me down but when it is in the knee that I have had surgery on it nerves me.
I am not running in the Des Moines Marathon. I think that people were thinking that I would change my mind . . .I am not going to change my mind.
20 weeks of marathon training and you throw it all away because of a little tendonitis, a chest cold, a big toenail that is about to completely come off and a dead dog?! Yep!
For now, I am going to continue to enjoy my morning moonlight runs, a right knee that is not pissed at me all of the time and the memory of my first marathon . . .because after all, I HAVE ran 26.2 miles . . .just not THIS time.
