Day 71

Calories burned running this morning: 348

Another week, another weigh-in! This week I have lost 3 pounds! This puts me at a net loss of 34 pounds since January 3rd. 66 pounds left to goal. 16 pounds until I have my halfway party. I just decided that right this minute. It's going to happen, though.

So, after my last run outside 4 days ago, my left leg was pretty sore right around my knee. I've been going easy on it since then. However, today I was feeling pretty good and the only thing aching was my need to run. So I laced up my Asics and tried to pace myself as I pounded the pavement. It started raining on me. That was actually really cool. I probably looked like a moron running in the rain, blowing breath clouds out of my smiling mouth. It was all made better when a long forgotten song shuffled into play on my iPod.



Quick tangent: That song reminds me of what is easily the most epic music video of all time. It even has it's own end credits. After how shoddy that last music video was, I felt compelled to make up for it by posting undiluted awesomeness.




End tangent.

Back to my run.

By the time I got home from my run, I was feeling awesome. Then I stopped running. Immediately I felt a pain in my leg so intense that I fell against the wall, actually gasping and had tears streaming down my face. Although I really wanted to just lay down and never get up again, I treated this injury much like my mom raised me to treat every injury. Take some ibuprofen, walk it off, stretch it out until you scream in pain, and then repeat until you either pass out or start bleeding. Fortunately, this actually worked out pretty well, without having to resort to bleeding or loss of consciousness. I got to the point where I could walk on it. Later on at work, however, some of the pain resurfaced.

Sadly, I'm going to have to say that this means there is no 5K in my immediate future.

I can't even describe to you how frustrating that is. Admittedly, most of my tears today were not because of the pain, but because I finally found something that is super good for me that I was beginning to enjoy and do pretty well with, and now I have to back off from it, just when I feel like I was really building momentum.

Don't you fret, though, I'm still going to be doing some intense low-impact workouts on ellipticals and such. Hopefully, after some more work, I'll be able to make my official racing debut. Until then, stay with me friends.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find someone to hug me and then listen to happy music for awhile.