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 I am writing this after failing miserable at an attempt to run an easy mile. It has been three weeks since my last run and the way I felt tonight it might be three more. As you may have read in some of my team members post, I am injured. The injury is not a new one but one that started two years ago with a meniscus tear. The tear was repaired and I was told then that I had Grade III cartilage damage. At the time I was thinking whatever, when can I run again? The rehab went well and I continued to run with little pain, until three weeks ago. In the last three weeks I have seen two Orthopedics’s, diagnosed with arthritis(grade IV cartilage damage) had one injection and am taking Celebrex to try and make this go away. It is working but it is not getting better fast enough. It feels like the past three months training is going down the crapper!

 

 

 Sorry but that is how I am feeling! AAAAHHHHHHHH so sad! I know, I know if this is as bad as it gets I don’t have a lot to complain about. It still stinks!

 Now that I got the complaining out of the way it is time for me to regroup and try and figure out how I am going to go 26.2 miles. Plan A is to run when possible but I am trying to have a plan B. With that being said today’s run/walk was not a complete loss. I walked what I thought was a fast mile in about 14 minutes and 30 seconds. I am kind of mentally preparing myself to walk the 26.2. Anyway, at that rate it will take me over 6 ½ hours. One way or the other 26.2 is in my future.

 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of

comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.