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March 11, 2005
Being good
First off, thanks for everyone's achilles suggestions. It's hard not to feel like you're the only one suffering (mentally and physically) but most everyone's been in a similar situation and gotten through it.
I was lucky to have company swimming this morning--Mary volunteered to join me as long as it was early enough for her to get to work on time. Now of course, she was doing a real swimmer's workout, whereas I spent the better part of an hour hoping that my arms didn't fall off. It has been awhile since I've really done a quality swim. I hate that I'm so slow--especially when I get tired and my form deteriorates--but I always feel like I'm working hard. I used the pull buoy the whole time so I wouldn't bother my achilles.
I've been obsessively icing and taking Aleve all day (good for a sore throat that's recently developed too). My achilles feels marginally better today, but I think I should probably swim tomorrow too. There's a swim meet going on at MIT this weekend, so only the small pool is available, but I'll survive. I still haven't decided if I'm going to do this half marathon on Sunday. I really want to try to get in a long run, but I don't want to do something that will set me back two weeks, either. I have never, ever cross-trained (or taken the day off) the day before a race, either, so that freaks me out. Especially not TWO non-running days. I guess if my achilles continues to feel better tomorrow, I will think about running it, but probably rule out racing it because I don't think that's so smart. It's too bad because this time I was going to try and be brave and stick with Mary as long as possible. Oh well, there are more races in the future.
In other exciting news of the day, I went over to my grandparents' house for a special birthday dinner for my grandma, today is her 81st b-day. She took me into the living room to show me some flowers that someone had sent her, and they were on the floor. I leaned down to read the card and when I stood up, I banged my head on this one-of-a-kind ceramic sculpture from Israel that is meant to sit on the mantle of the fireplace. It went flying and smashed into a million pieces. I felt HORRIBLE. But at least it didn't fall ON my head--then I would have felt physically horrible too...
And now I'm home working on a paper. Matt's in NYC tonight so I have nice and quiet working conditions. Of course I STILL haven't managed to get a whole lot done...anyway, happy weekend to all!
Posted by becky at March 11, 2005 7:53 PM
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You are so smart to take the time off to swim. Rest up so you and I can FINALLY run a marathon together on the same course this April! Love from Boulder,
Vic
Posted by: Vic at March 12, 2005 6:51 PM
Hang in there with the achilles Becky! You're being smart by swimming - and despite how painful it is to take off from running you'll really be glad you did! If you ran the 1/2 today, I hope it went well, but if you decided not to run - there will always be another race! Sending healing vibes as I type... :)
Posted by: Beth at March 12, 2005 7:14 PM