Correre
You may (or may not) have not- iced that after weeks of obses- sion, I haven't posted recently about running. That's because the last time I posted about running was the last time I did any, at least of any significant length. I'd been sore after that 14-miler, but it was the four miles I muscled painfully through the next Tuesday (before my last Sandusky lecture) that let me know something was pretty wrong. I took the rest of the week off running, still intending to do my 20-mile "peak" the next Sunday, but ended up still too sore to want to risk it.
The weird thing is that I have no idea what caused the pain. It was in my right leg, above my knee, and felt like I'd pulled a muscle deep in my leg that connected the inside of my knee to the outside of my hip. The muscle seems to be involved in stabilization more than anything; I still feel it occasionally if I shift my weight to my left leg after resting on my right.
Last week, for the first time, it felt good enough to run on. I did a few very short runs early in the week, which felt okay if not great. Sunday, Bryant and I ran four miles with my dad, which felt pretty good.
The marathon is this Sunday.
To add to the drama, I am ill, smitten Monday with some inexplicable sore throat/chest congestion/body aching nightmare bug. My cough is much worse today... but I'm maintaining hope that I'll be well by Sunday.
This marathon appears, thus far, to be ill-fated. Hopefully things will look sunnier on Sunday.
3 comments:
Oh, Ceri! Good luck! There's nothing worse than missing out on a marathon you've actually trained for. I'm sorry for the setbacks and I'll be thinking of you on Sunday.
Well, maybe not "worse", but maybe nearly as bad is running a marathon you haven't trained for. Whatever.
Yes, hello. May the Serenity Prayer be especially close. Good luck!
i think you are awesome, ceri. definitely hardcore. how was it? i'm definitely thinking of you are you are probably recovering now.
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