2010 brings a new goal

I had a goal - run in the 13.1 half marathon in NYC on April 3rd.
It was a good goal, an achievable goal. Then on Dec 21st I broke the 5th metatarsal on my right foot. Life happens - and you need to adjust your goals.
The doc says my foot is healing NORMALLY :) was kinda looking for extra ordinary but...
I will wear the boot for the rest of January and he thinks i'll be able to run 2 weeks later. So that basically puts the April 3rd race beyond what i can accomplish. I don't think, with 6 weeks off, and only 6 weeks of starting to train before that I could get up to 13.1 miles in that time frame. My friend Kelly found an alternative. The Clinton Country Run, a 15k race on April 25th, 2010. It gives me another 3 or 4 weeks to train. I know I can get up to a decent 9 mile distance by April 25th.
Monday I head up to the gym and join. Doc says I can ride a bike, not really using my right foot, so that's what I'm gonna do. Plus belonging to the gym will be a good alternative when the weather is not good ( don't want to fall in a hole again).
13.1 half marathon - I"ll see you soon but not just yet.

Holding Pattern

Well, as many of you know, I was dealt a major setback on Monday. Things were going so well! I was atleast up to 2 miles, and heading to 3 miles a run easy. Until 20 minutes in to Monday's workout. Then I had a problem. Somehow, details are unnecessary, I ran in to a hole. Then my left knee hit the ground followed by the rest of my body. I had broken my right foot, the right metatarsal to be exact. Sigh...
The doc says 6 weeks to something and 2-3 months for full healing. All I want to know is when I can start running again. Will I be able to train hard enough to do the 13.1 but not so hard I hurt my foot.
This sucks...but there's a reason for everything. God will use this somehow, someway I can't see right now.
I'll post again when I know something more.
God Bless...

Day 30

I feel like I'm finally making some progress, pitiful progress but progress none the less.
Yesterday I ran a mile without stopping. I then walked another mile. That was good. I was slow but I still did it :) now all i need to do is 12 more and I can do this thing!!

Day 19

Ok
it's been a while since my last post. I've had a rough week. Last week on black friday I really did my legs in. But ...I think several factors were to blame. The biggest reason is my weight. I'm sure of that. Contributing to that was the fact I have running in walking shoes. This has caused my knees to hurt. On monday, day 15, i was not able to run. I ended up walking my workouts this week, still in pain, as I could not run.
Until today. I started taking some supplements for joints. I'll see if they are actually effective. I also bought a good pair of running shoes yesterday. Today I did my run. I didn't quite run it as it was on the schedule tho. It was supposed to be walk 2 minutes, then run 3 and walk 1 (repeating 7x). In the 3,4,5 repetitions I extended my walking time from two to three minutes. I still ran the 3 minutes, and when I was running i felt fine. It only hurt when I walked .
We'll see how i do. I am not getting worried yet but I am concerned if I'll be able to run the marathon. I'll be in it, mark my words, but I want to run it. I don't want to walk. argh...
Lord...I just give this to you. The problems I am having are of my own making and I accept that. I also accept that I don't have the strength to do this, I can only do this with you...

Day 12

Well. I walked my legs off today. I don't know if I'll be able to rub tomorrow ouch I want to. But I was on my feet walking and standing for 11 hrs ( less 45 minutes for lunch). I am going to buy new running shoes this week. That will help a bit

We'll see

Day 11

Life is a stealer some times. Due to our selling our car and buying a new car and phone calls etc I missed the run yesterday. Now... I also had some ice cream last night.
This brings me to this morning. We did our run from day 10 today. It was awful. I could not limber up and it was so hard to do the running. I dunno which thing made it so but Monday was soooo good compared to today. Oh well I'll be walking most of tomorrow for Black Friday. Next run on sat. So, yes Dan a little hickup but nothing fatal. Happy Thanksgiving all!

Day 8

Well, this is the start of week 2, day 8 took last weeks workouts up a notch. Instead of running 1 minute and walking 2 I am running and walking for 2 minutes each. It wasn't any hard to run twice a long than it was to do the 1 minute last week. That's a good thing. I actually like running for longer sequences. I can start to get in to the rhythm of running and not focus on the time so much.
What stinks is how hard it is to do this. pathetic . I hate being so out of shape and heavy.
On another note. Thomas continues to run with me. I'm both grateful and encouraged by his enthusiasm. I am thinking more about how his approach needs to be different than mine. As it seems like he might actually stick this out with me I want to make sure he's doing the things he needs to do - mostly in regards to his diet. He eats fine (no variety but that's a kid) for normal activity. However if he is going to continue to run with me and start looking at the longer distances in January he'll need to eat more proteins etc than he does now. I know absolutely zero about this.. For myself I'd never bother but.. with him it seems more important...