After limping through another run, I finally am giving up ... I am taking tonight off (no 2nd run) and am not sure yet about tomorrow, but thinking I will take it off too. I am just worried that after spending 24:53 (I timed it) literally limping before feeling I can run a smooth stride without screaming in pain is probably not doing the rest of my body any good either ... and then even when I am able to get a decent stride it hurts the whole time. The thought of another 2 hours of pain tomorrow just did not sound fun. We are flying into Tucson on Monday morning and then driving straight to John's house, he knew it was serious when my text said, "I am not running". I decided that since training won't be starting for about 3 more weeks, the main thing would be to start healthy -- nothing says, "not a good marathon" than having problems before you even start to train ;-). After my painful 8 miles I had a wonderful breakfast with Michelle, who needed to recover from an awesome training run with allie!! At least I can enjoy the wedding tonight, not worrying about getting up early to run. Although I would rather run. Last nights rehearsal dinner was more of a "BBQ party" than a rehearsal dinner, it was awesome to see all of our old friends again. Steve (the groom) had written two songs (he plays guitar and piano) for Rosemary, one was about her, and the other was about getting married (sort of bluesy/ballad/ early country) -- very nice, it made her Dad cry. Have a good weekend bloggers!
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