Will Run For Ice Cream

Well, if you've been following my blog, then you know that I'm coming back from injury. And at first I was beyond frustrated. Ok, I was pretty much border-line pissed at how slow things were progressing. I didn't know whether to give up completely or just throw caution to the wind, say $*&*** this, I'm just going to run and consequences be well you see where I'm going with this. Instead, I tried my best to 'trust the process'. ( note to those people who are trying to encourage injured runners, we really don't want to hear this slogan - or the word patience - just sayin ') Instead,  I had a little heart-to-heart with my trainer ( Personal Design Fitness ). I voiced my concerns. She listened, and after defining the difference between soreness and actual pain, she ramped up my training plan a bit with the understand that I had to continue to listen to my body. So far for long runs I've been able to run 4 hilly miles outside. In addi...

I'm not going to lie, I'm discouraged. My training plan calls for 'just another' 2.5 mile run this weekend. I feel like I've been at 2 miles forever . But I have to admit that after my outside run, I could feel the calf a little the next day.  But today, if I'm being honest, my shin (or near my shin) is hurting. And this fascia was supposedly torn when I had my injury. So I'm wondering if it isn't totally healed, or maybe I have possibly re-injured it a little. That being said, as frustrated as I am that I'm just at 2 miles, the reality is it's probably where I need to be at the moment. I have my sights set on the Capital 10 Miler , and I was hoping to all out 'run' it on March 30. But I asked my trainer if I would even be up to 10 miles by then. She said I would probably be at 8, and that I should be able to finish. . So I reasoned that maybe we could 'push' up my long runs. She calmly and politely tells me she is a littl...

I waited with anticipation, like waiting for the pregnancy test to say negative or positive. Ok, so maybe not that dramatic, but still I was on pins and needles with excitement waiting to get my running recovery plan.  And then the email came..... and.... in 3 weeks I am up to running 3 miles without walking. WHAT?!? No, surely I didn't read that right. I missed something. Nope, that's what it said. At first I was super disappointed. Surely this isn't right. But then I started looking over the plan. And I realized that my trainer has me doing something toward healing, getting stronger, being a better runner, every day. So I took a step back and realized that she's right. She prefaced the plan with the following message "It's better to keep it pain free than to make it too hard and re-injure the muscle" ( Elizabeth DeSousa, Personal Design Fitness) . So I'm going to trust the process, trust the plan, and trust my trainer. I know it's ...