I ran! (two days in a row!) I'm really excited about it.
I thought I was going to have to modify my distance in order to help work through the pain in my toe, but my toe really doesn't hurt at all when I run. I actually decided not to tape my toes today, because it seems like my foot is strained and I limp much more when I tape my toes together. The smushed toe is still swollen, but most of the bruising is gone now. I feel so much better. It's crazy how sad I was about my toe being injured. I thought I was going to have to lose a lot of my training in the next several days. Instead, I lost 3-4 days of training. Yeah me!
So yesterday, I did four miles. It was the first run I'd done in a week and I felt great. It was awesome. I ran slowly, but I did what needed to be done. That's what really matters.
Today, I was scheduled 8 miles and I knew that I could do it. I did two miles, then Katherine came home from work and we finished out together. We had lots of good talks along the way. One fun thing about Katherine and I running together is that our pace has improved exponentially in the past few months. It used to be that we were pretty slow together and walked a lot. Now we can run much more quickly than we could before, so I'm excited about that. Lots of fun teamwork.
I'm exhausted, so that's all I have to say this time. ha. I'm just glad to be back!!
Goal: 1000 miles/366 days
So far: 456.66 miles/222 days
To go: 543.34 miles/144 days
I'm so excited that you are able to run again and your toe isn't any worse for it. It is also really exciting that you should be halfway done with your running goal by the end of next week. Sure it is more than 6 months in but at this rate you will definitely make it! I'm so proud of you and glad I was able to participate in part of the run with you. It was a good 6 mile run for my first day back to running. It was also neat to go a little bit different way than usual as well.
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