"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves"

My ankle has been relatively pain-free since Thursday, and I'm ready to start running again tomorrow. It's been a good week, and I'm happy that I didn't have to worry about getting some runs in, because I stayed up way too late (saw Quantam of Solace at midnight and signed up for classes at midnight another day). Looking forward to this week though. One more week before thanksgiving break. Oh, and there is a Turkey Trot at school on Thursday, but I don't know how I feel about trying to run a race so soon. My weight training instructor really wants me to, but I doubt I can even keep up a sub-6:30 pace for a 5k. Crappy eh?

Goal now is to hit 50 miles per week before finals, December 15-19. Then start a serious speed training phase.

This week:

30 minutes on Monday

30 minutes on Tuesday

30 minutes on Wednesday

45 minutes on Thursday

60 minutes on Friday

60-90 minutes on Saturday

 How's that for slowly building up?

Great. I felt pretty darn good on the way to class. And felt pretty good as I started running, until I got about a mile out. The pain came, and I didn't dare do anything to make it even worse, so I just went back to my dorm. Did 20 minutes on the elliptical and then did an upper body workout. I don't know how long this is going to take, but obviously yesterday's goals were too high. I'm going to take tomorrow off and try again on Wednesday. Then Friday. It's the best I can do, and I just have to persevere through these troubles.

Got in a better run today; the pain didn't come until the fourth mile. Just up and around the Temple to stretch my legs out and see how the recovery is going.

Half an hour of running this morning.  I went with a girl in my ward and let her set the pace. Averaged 10:03 per mile. She just about died going up Temple Hill ha ha. It was fine though, because it kept my pace slow, and I was able to get in more time before the ankle tightened up.