missed

Great 7 miler this morning with Diana, Mark and Shan.  It had been several weeks since we have all run together so it was nice all of us being together again.  It may be quite a while if ever we are together on a Thursday morning due to Diana and Rob't moving from Austin next week.  The are a huge part of our ultra running community and will be missed!!

boss

Decent 7 mile run this morning at Townlake.  Still not over what ever viral infection I've got but I'm gonna keep on truckin anyway. I'm gonna show this virus who's BOSS!!!

come around

2 miles at Kens yesterday and 4 miles at Forest Ridge today.  I'm still not completely over whatever sickness I've had but am slowly improving.  I damn sure ready to be 100%.  I would have never guessed that my running year would start so badly but it has and I have to persevere.  It'll come around!!

thud #2

2103 ended with a thud and 2014 seems to be starting that way.  I went to the Dr yesterday and found out I have an upper respiratory viral infection and was told by the Dr that I should definitely not run AT ALL this Saturday.  The way I still feel this morning at work I pretty much agree.  It would be pretty irresponsible for me to even run the 50k and risk any kind of relapse after taking 3days off work due to this illness.  170.00 buckaroos down the tubes too.  I've decided I'm not going to sign up ahead of time for races.  I (we've) lost too much money thru the years on lost entrance fees.  Joe's races are only 20.00 more for race day, not unreasonable at all.  Next on the horizon, looking forward to pacing Sam 60 miles at RR100 and Sam's 24hr on March 22.

thud

This running year ended with a resounding thud.  I had been experiencing a strange pain down below my left ankle as if I had rolled it or had some trauma to it for about 10 days or so.  At work last Friday afternoon I began flexing it and rolling it around and after a while realized it was hurting bigtime.  By the time I left work I could only walk with a pronounced limp.  It hurt!!  The pain started below my ankle and ran up my leg not quite to my calf.  Well, I had my last long run scheduled for the next day  The weather forecast was beautiful and I was looking forward to a good long run.  When I left work I called Shan and left her a message telling her what was going on and to see what her advice might be.  She called me later saying she thought it was my achilles flairing up.  Wow, I never expected that.  Her advice was to not run and take a bunch of vitamin I and ice a lot.  Well so much for a good positive ending to this running year.  On a positive note the Ibuprofen and ice really seem to have done the trick.  Thursday evening after work I went on my first easy test run on the trails in Pease Park.  I had a good 5 miler and mixed in plenty of walking.  That afternoon I sort of felt like I might be getting sick but thought a little fresh air would help.  NOT.  I woke up Friday morning feeling terrible.  I mostly had body aches but felt just terrible.  Now wasn't this just crazy.  I get the achilles under control and am 8 days out from the Bandera 100k and now I'm frickin sick!!  Well here I am early Sunday morning and am feeling much better.  A little hungover from the meds I've taken but definitely feeling better. I need to do a bunch of stretching and working out the kinks after doing nothing but lay around the last 2 days but now I think I can look forward to the race!!

quick

Quick and easy 3 miles yesterday at Barton Creek from the pool parking lot after work.

6

Got in a quick 6 miler at Kens on Christmas Eve before we left for Bulverde.