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Where do you work that's so late? Nice job on the rehab your going to be back at full strength soon.

To answer your question in my blog, my achilles seems 100% healed. I'm really amazed and can only contribute it too faith in healing. I'm really a strong believer in that area, where some of your healing comes from.

Great job on the TM at lunch.

Thanks, Kory! - I work for Borders Books and Music as a way to basically make enough money to pay for gas and food to get to classes. I only work 3 or so days a week right now though. I don't make a ton of money, but every bit helps, especially with gas prices here breaching the 3.50-3.60 range.

I'm hoping my achilles issue is on the mend which I think it is. I am really wanting to get back out there. I'm slowly building back up. I did about 9 miles of slow jogging this week, and I hope to increase it to about 12 (2 per day for 6 days) miles for next week. Slow and steady.

Glad to hear you're feeling better and hopefully I can start blogging some miles in the coming weeks!

Hi Benn, nice comeback!! I am in awe of your restraint and smart recovery! Hope school is going well this semester. I would love to work at Borders (although I would worry about not bringing a paycheck home!).

Bonnie

Yeah ahaha. And to make matters worse on Thursday, 3/20 I read on yahoo that the company had to take out a 45 million dollar loan and that it's going under kind of fast. I think that there's just not as much $ around people are willing to spend on books (i.e. New hardcovers now run 25-30 bucks!). It's a really fun job, but unfortunately I've been there 2 years come May and have received all of .03 cents for a raise!

Ya, gas prices hear in Idaho are getting up there too. 3.30 or better when I filled up my 8 cylinder Sliverado.

Benn, keep the stretching going and slowly increase your pace, (that's what I did), and the time will come where your achilles will have the strength built back up to continue a weekly training routine.

Good luck on the studying.

All the above is good advice. Slow and steady til you are fully healed. The human body is an amazing thing, I tore my achilles in half, had it sown back together and since there is no regrowth to tendons the scar tissue and string is what holds mine together. The good part is I can run faster now than I could when I injured it, while sprinting the 90 feet between homeplate and first. That was almost eight years ago and I hardly think about it while running. Bottom line is your paience will be rewarded with a fully recovered leg.