A Little Time Off

Sept 17- Sept 23          Total Mileage – 24.1

Sept 24 – Sept 30         Total Mileage – 0

Nothing like jumping right back into it one day after running the half marathon.  Although I guess this is how it is going to be from now on.  No more weekend “long runs” under 10 miles, with only a day or two to recover.  It actually went much better than I had expected and I was running pretty much pain free until Saturday.  The weekend was going to be crazy so the only way that I could get the 10 mile run in was to go really early (5:30 A.M.) on Saturday morning.  It proved that it would also be the only time that it was not going to be over 95 degrees outside. 

The run started out well and I set to pace at 11 min per.  I did not realize just how dark it is at 5:30.  Its one thing for it to be that dark when you are driving to the gym, but running on the sidewalks is a whole different story.  I made sure to wear my reflective gear and I was off.  You quickly become aware of every dog on the other side of a fence, every bicyclist, every car, and the three other runners that were as crazy as me to be out that early.  I finished up with an 11:04 pace which I’ll take since I was not going out to set any record and that my knee was killing me the last mile. I stepped off a curb and as I did so I felt a shooting pain up my left leg and into my knee.  I had a little bit of swelling but it does not appear to be anything major.  Finished up the run, packed up the car, took Luke to T-ball class, and then hit the road for The Bay.  We left from there for Disneyland on Sunday.

I had originally planned to take my gear and get a few runs in while in LA but decided that it since I was merely going to be re-running last weeks mileage and that piling that on top of walking all day at Disney may be a poor choice.  I did however make sure to rock a pair of KSO’s for the trip.  It is at the point now where even wearing a thick soled running shoe all day hurts my heels and arches.  I had a few employees stop me to make sure I was not wearing just socks, high fived one guy in line that was also sporting Vibrams, and had a 10 minute conversation with another guest while waiting for a parade to start about how Vibrams work.  (Not much too it, you put them on your feet, and you make sure not to walk on your heels).  He was trying to sell me on why I should swith back to a heavy soled runner like he had on, but no dice.  Oddly enough, they live about 20 minutes from us and his wife went to the same high school that my brother went too (small world). 

We had a blast, walked a ton (we were on our feet from 10 am till 9 pm with very little down time), and in true vacation fashion ate some great stuff.  My knee is back to feeling normal and I’m looking forward to jumping back in.  (I say that now, since next weekend is a 15 mile “training run”.  Yikes!)

Hot dog...check
Mac and Cheese...check
Bacon...check
Perfection