Partial victory

Just leaving the doctor's office. The injury is leaving but not completely gone. So he's letting me run, but no more than six kilometres and only three to four times a week. More to come...

Bad blogger

Ok those who still tune into this blog considering it hasn't been updated in two weeks, visualize me slapping my hand, "bad blogger, bad blogger." Surely you can understand my pain. I came off my best marathon ever, had my spirits stuck in the stratosphere and then some guy with a medical degree hanging on the wall instructs me to take a month off of running. Does he not know who I am? Surely he jests, but alas not. The first two weeks weren't bad considering I wanted to get over some aches and pains, not to mention I was sick as a dog. (Belle takes great umbrage with that saying, which I can understand, I’ve never actually seen her sick.) The third week was annoying and now, well, I'm climbing the walls. Honestly sitting at home watching other people run is just not my style. I've had so many people tell me that "it's not that bad." Sure, of course it's not that bad, again visualize me rolling my eyes without them noticing. It is that bad. Trust me. Have you ever counted the number of synonyms for bored? I have. There aren't any I haven't thought of and then imagined a four-letter word to go before it ... ok, I'm not that crass but that is my sentiment right now.
I'm heading back to the doctor's on Thursday and at that point he better clear me for running again. As I told him, if there is ever a time I would rather take a month off of running it is now. In retrospect that is a very reasonable thing to say until you actually try taking a month off of running. I'm ranting right now...which is the exact reason I spent two weeks away from this blog, fearing this very thing would happen. All my pent up angst is spilling onto the screen and I just can't help myself.
You know the worst part of course, once I can start running again I'm probably going to fly out of the house and within a week I'll injure myself out of sheer stupidity. Why? Because I'm not very bright to begin with and the last month hast just made me stupid. But I digress. Back to doing nothing. I promise not to be a bad blogger in the future.