Last week started well and ended badly… I had a fabulous ride on Skyline Drive on Saturday, although I still don’t feel confident about biking on hills. Or that I will successfully finish my Ironman 70.3 in August for that matter. I am getting really stressed about that and I think I overdid it on training my legs. And as you can probably guess from this week’s calendar, it all came crashing on Sunday. I was planning on running 20 miles on Sunday. Or at least 13 miles. Sadly, on mile 6, I stepped wrong and fell. My pants ended up torn and my knee scraped. I chose to take it as a hint from my body it’s time to go home. Sadly, over 5 miles of walking home takes forever. I jogged a little bit on and off, but it was definitely not much of a training. After I rested a bit, I found out that I rolled my foot as part of the fall and it feels exactly as it did when I injured it last winter. Good news: I know how to fix it. Bad news: I will have to take a few days off from legs workouts.
Last week, somebody told me that for most people, spirit gives up before their body gives up. Clearly, I am not most people… My legs gave up on my running before I was done with my workout and I had every intention of finishing it (even if I was not overly happy about it).
Wish me quick recovery!