Great news!!! I went for a little run today, and 9 hours later my heart is still beating! I decided that I've been on the injured reserve for way too long, so my lunch break today consisted of a 2 1/2 mile run on the OC&E Trail. Because of a jacked-up Achilles Tendon I haven't been able to do much of anything since Presidents' Day...and I'm back to square one as far as being in shape. I managed to put back on all the weight I lost when we did the Basin Belly Buster, and in fact added a pound or two. I'm a great example of what eating 2 full pounds of See's Dark Chocolate Buttercreams between the Valley River Center and Klamath Falls will do for one's physique!
I'm kind of anxious to see if I can run again tomorrow... right now my Achilles is kind of tender, and my hip on that side hurts quite a bit too (I'm afraid that I was running more lopsided than normal to try to not strain my tendon, and may have screwed something else up). Getting old definitely isn't something to look forward too, and I'm not doing it gracefully.
I don't have any idea how fast I ran the 2 1/2 miles, and at this point don't really care. The important thing is that I was able to run the full distance...and didn't wind up dead in the ditch along the trail.
