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April 23, 2005
nothing broken yet
I started running two days after the marathon, and apart from the usual something-always-feels-a-little-funny, everything seems ok. The runs have all been short so far (the longest, 5 miles, was this morning), and I haven't been trying for any special pace, but I find myself running a good bit faster than usual. This tells me that I'm recovering well, and my legs are responding to the much-lighter mileage this week. I figure as I add more miles my pace will slip back to something much slower.
I could blow all this good fortune to hell tomorrow, because I'm doing the running leg (10k) of a triathlon relay. I signed up for this months and months ago, not longer after the sfx was diagnosed. I was pretty depressed about the injury, and agreeing to a race way in the future was a way of promising myself I wouldn't quit running altogether. Anyway, the thing is tomorrow and I've never done anything like this before so I'm interested to see how it will turn out.
Posted by joe positive at April 23, 2005 3:11 PM