running- no excuses

well as many of you know I tweaked my ankle on the BAK Achilles tendonitis or something like that. I tried to do my normal athletic injury regimen of a bit of ice, a handful of ibuprofen and three heaping bucketfuls of suckitupandtoughitout ( or generic.)

This did not work.

So basically I stopped running for a bit to let the ankle get back on board. Now it is hard to get back in to running. It has been everything I can do to get out and run three times this week for a whopping total of 9.3 miles. That said, it is over, the “not running” thing is done. My ankle is feeling fine and I am back to running everyday starting NOW. 5k min each day. Same rules as when I started running seriously but worse. If I miss a day I have to pay it back, double. If I want to run ahead of time that is allowed at the normal 1x rate.

The plan is to do a marathon this fall. 26.22 miles is a long way to run but I am going to do it barring some significant injury. My plan is to post my mileage on here daily, but I need to find a good way of doing it.

So for now I need all of you wonderful blog readers to call me out and hold me accountable. Well not actually, but if you suspect slacking or if I fail to report regularly let me know.

Mileage Today 3.1M

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4 Responses to “running- no excuses”

  1. cry on July 12th, 2008 4:59 am

    Glad the ankle is better. We will be checking up on you. No jazz until you’ve gotten your 5k in.

  2. lauri on July 14th, 2008 6:31 am

    Instead of hating on yourself go back and read one of your fine essays: “zephyr”
    and work toward attaining that joy.

    Lots of carrots, not so many sticks.

  3. twest on July 14th, 2008 1:50 pm

    Man, you make me feel like a loser. I said I was gonna walk each day and since it was all thundershowery last week that plan failed. No excuses I must find the time to exercise and get back into shape. Thanks for the inspiration!

  4. Eric on July 15th, 2008 10:48 am

    carrots are for wimps

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