Running Again
On Saturday evening, I signed up to run another marathon: Berlin 2012. It’s on 30 September 2012. I have about 46 weeks to learn how to run again; it hasn’t started well.
On Sunday morning, I went for a 10k run with Nancy. I used to run faster than Nancy. I haven’t run more than once a week since 2007… I hadn’t run at all for the past six weeks. Nancy, on the other hand, has been training. Nancy is much faster now. I’m not.
I was pretty chuffed with our time: 54 minutes - not far off my PB from what I remember, despite a bit of a walk at the 5k mark. Unfortunately, I put my left foot down wrong part way through the run.
The ankle started to feel bad within a few hours. When I woke up the next morning, I could barely walk on it. But it got better. The problem is that the pain migrated to the base of my foot: outside edge, midway down the sole. It hurts. It’s Thursday now and it still hurts. Hmmm.
As Nancy put it: I’ve got 46 weeks for it to heal. And learn how to run again. And train for a marathon…
