Friday, September 5, 2014

Dodging A Bullet

So I planned to only blog concerning the major events leading up to the Marathon, but some sports fans have indicated they want more content. I'm more than willing to write more posts... who doesn't like to write about his favorite person?

Had a bit of a scare in August. The week after the Triple Threat Half Marathon, I pulled a calf muscle while running an ordinary training run and ended up taking a week off. During that week off, my left knee started to hurt in an ominous way that was reminiscent of how it felt before I had surgery on it seven years ago.  Probably this was all the result of pushing it too hard at the Trip Threat Half Marathon. The week after that, I began starting some mild training again, but the knee didn't seem to be improving much. Naturally I got depressed thinking I might have done serious damage to the knee and blown the Disney Marathon.

I set up an appointment with Dr. O'Holleran, who did my two knee surgeries, and it turned out the knee is structurally sound and I only had a mild strain. By this point, I'm back to full training and did 11 miles last Sunday on my long run of the week.

The lack of training for those couple of weeks, and some inconsistent commitment to restraining my eating, probably killed my hope of weighing 180 lbs by the Wicked Half Marathon on Sept 20. I weighed 186 at my last Monday weigh-in, which is a 3 lb loss since August 4, but I'd need to lose 6 lbs in two weeks, which isn't going to happen.

In any case, I learned my lesson, and I'm going to take it easy and cruise the Wicked Half Marathon.

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