Thursday, November 8, 2012

October

Day One: nothing.  Mondays are my recovery days.
Day Two: missed it.
Day Three: missed it.  11 hour car trip to Jonesborough, Tennessee.  Not much time or energy left.
Day Four:  Took Riley on a walk in Persimmon Ridge Park.  Beautiful day to be outside!
Day Five: Storytelling festival - walking around the grounds all day.
Day Six: Storytelling festival - walking around the grounds all day.
Day Seven: Last day at the Storytelling Festival.  Cold, wet and rainy.  Spent most of the time in one tent.
Day Eight: 11 hour car trip back to Natchez.
Day Nine: Recovery day.
Day Ten: Missed it.  Billy left town and there was too much to take care of.
Day Eleven: All my time spent holding down the fort.
Day Twelve: Ran 38 minutes.
Day Thirteen: Ran 46 minutes.
Day Fourteen: Cleaned the house (it counts!) and rode my bike to pick up the Sunday newspaper.
Day Fifteen: Recovery day.
Day Sixteen: Ran 50 minutes.
Day Seventeen: Night off.
Day Eighteen: Ran 45 minutes.  Almost race day!
Day Nineteen: Billy's birthday!  We went out to eat and I got ready for tomorrow.
Day Twenty: Race Day!  3.1 miles in 35 minutes!
Day Twenty-one: Walked for 20 minutes.  I forgot to be somewhere and Billy dropped me off when we remembered and I had to walk home.
Day Twenty-two: Drove back to Natchez from Monroe and attended board meeting.  No time to run.
Day Twenty-three:  Ran 41 minutes on the hotel treadmill.
Day Twenty-four:  Missed it.  Working out of town and we worked later.
Day Twenty-five: Ran 30 minutes on the hotel treadmill.
Day Twenty-six: Nothing tonight.  Just got home after being gone all week.
Day Twenty-seven: Chili cook-off and board function.  Got some walking in between activities.
Day Twenty-eight: Face plant on the sidewalk after running, hard, for 25 minutes.  In pain and so disappointed.
Day Twenty-nine: Nothing.  Knee still doesn't bend and is swollen considerably.
Day Thirty:  Nothing.  Knee still swollen.
Day Thirty-one: Nothing.  Can maneuver some upstairs, but still not downstairs.

Injuries are the pits!  But you have to take them seriously or you'll end up doing more damage, possibly permanently.