September 28, 2009

To Run or Not to Run

In an earlier post (sept 1) I shared with you all about wanting to run a 5K, namely Race for the Cure because it holds a special spot with me. My training has been going great! Nearly seamless until I came down with a nasty bug about a week ago that left me staying in doors for about 4 days. This really threw a wrench in my training since I didn’t give myself much wiggle room when I started. (good timing/ bad timing? who knows but it was motivation enough)

Well last Friday evening, I was playing with Kate on the floor and got on my knees to put her books back on the shelf. As I was standing up I did something to my right knee. I ended up doing RICE (rest, ice, compress, elevate) the rest of the evening while watching Monk and Psych. It’s still not 100% which means I’m nearly 1/2 a week’s worth of training behind and RFTC is a week from Saturday.  I’m not giving up my dream of running 3.2 miles (when I write it, it almost sounds silly) but the reality is that I might not be running a 5K in less than 2 weeks. This makes me sad because I’ve told so many people about my dream of running and part of me wishes that I would have kept this to myself because then the only person I have to answer to is myself. At least I’ve learned one lesson. So I’m putting this out there so maybe if your reading this you can say a little prayer for my knee.

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me, after running 2 miles for the first time EVER and in the rain!

September 21, 2009

Our little soccer star

September 14, 2009

Inspired by…

September 2, 2009

goodbye summer

September 1, 2009

Goal