It’s been a month without running.<\/p>\r\n
So I decided today I should try and do a jog around my neighborhood. An easy 1.6 mile loop. That’s kinda okay’d by the treatment plan. But if I experienced pain I’d have to reset, do not pass GO, do not collect $200 and go back to Phase I.<\/p>\r\n
I can’t tell — is that pain? Is it just stiffness and aches and pains from not having run in a month? \u00a0I’m definitely wheezing and huffing and puffing. \u00a0What a calamitous fall from the highs of a marathon a week. \u00a0I struggle even breaking a ten minute mile pace as I suck wind. \u00a0And there is something there in the tibia, some tweak or hitch in the stride. \u00a0Or is that my imagination? \u00a0Is that fear talking? \u00a0Dread at having to go back to Phase I and not run again? \u00a0Is that pain a Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow? \u00a0Am I in for six more weeks of a winter of discontent, \u00a0a lack of distance running?<\/p>\r\n
I finish the loop in 16 minutes or so. \u00a0A mind-whirl of disappointment at the rapid descent into diminished capabilities. \u00a0And I feel… something in that leg. \u00a0It’s not just in my head. \u00a0It’s there.<\/p>\r\n
So much for getting back out there.<\/p>\r\n
I am in a dark place.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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