Running has not been so good to me lately. I'm trying really hard to feel the love. Here's the rundown:
I went to Girls Camp a few weeks ago so I was able to get some mountain runs in. I was excited about the cool weather - but running on "trails" is hard for me. You see, I'm a shuffler. I don't mean to be, but I guess I don't lift up my feet much, I'm always kicking rocks and turning my ankles on tiny cracks in the pavement, so running on uneven gravel is not easy for me. The first run was really hard, I turned my ankle about a dozen times on the first half of the run, then around 4 miles when Lindy had gotten pretty far ahead of me I finally took a spill. My ankle turned and I went down! As I was falling I instinctively yelled, but even as I yelled I was worried that I would scare Lindy. I scraped up my knee and banged my elbow pretty good, but tried to hop back up and brave the rest of the run. The next day we ran on the gravel road with rolling hills, the terrain was much better for my weak ankles but I could feel the elevation difference, I was sucking wind at a slower than normal pace and my knee hurt from yesterdays fall. Luckily later that day I was in a canoe that tipped over in the pond and was wearing my running shoes, so since my shoes were wet I skipped the "hill repeats" that Lindy ran the next morning, thank goodness I had an excuse!
On a side note, another problem with trail running besides my weak ankles is that I want to look around and enjoy the scenery, but I am so clumsy I have to have my eye on the trail the whole time. I may have to go back to hiking the trails and enjoying the view and just pounding the pavement!
So back in town I ran last Saturday - it's getting warm here and the heat kills me. I felt like my legs were concrete. I came home and had some major back pain and just felt generally lousy all weekend. I went to the doctor on Monday (I already had the appointment to talk to the doc about some other stuff) and mentioned my back pain, etc and she looked me over and determined I have shingles!!! I hadn't thought anything of the small rash on my back, I figured I had gotten some bug bites at camp. Can you believe it? Isn't that a disease for the elderly and weak? I had run 11 miles two days earlier! So I'm on some anti-virals and tylenol for the pain and guess what...todays run was better, not great but better.
I'm looking forward to some vacation runs. I leave for Mexico tomorrow so I'll have some good beach runs and then a few weeks later we'll be in San Diego. I hope I feel the love again!
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Oh no! I hope you have recovered and are now enjoying beach running. I wonder if many of us have had difficulties feeling it lately. Marcie is injured and so am I. I was barely able to shuffle a mile and a half today. My groin is so, so sore. I think I'll have to take a longer break than I'd like. Luckily we still have a few months until St. George, eh?
ReplyDeleteI was glad to get the text message and hear that you had a good run in Mexico!!! I hope you get a picture to share! A fabulous beach running picture!
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