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Biked 4 miles.  Not sure how to blog that.  Trying to remember what RAD does...

Biked 5 miles.  Stress fracture has put me down for the count.  Hoping magical running class will teach me everything I need to know and fix me up before UVM...

Biked 6 miles.  Read comments from RAD re: blogging biking and agree with her about keeping it "clean" and only blogging running miles.  RAD--here is the short version.  10 days out from DC Marathon I developed stress fracture.  Ran the DC marathon anyway, then put a boot on for 3 1/2 weeks after but moved my entire family and broke my boot in the process (had to get a new one), so not sure how effective that boot time was.  After 3 1/2 weeks off, I did a few runs here and there as we moved into our house, then about 3 weeks ago, started running with Luz at 6 am daily.  Loved the early morning runs doing 4-6 at the crack of dawn and just being outside and just running with Luz.  Anyway, we did 18 one Saturday (quite a jump for me since I hadn't run anything over 6 since DC but I felt great and the leg was fine), then 12 the next Saturday (last Saturday) and by that Friday the day before I felt some twinging, then I think the 12 just did me in.  Probably too much, too fast.  I took Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday off, hoping it would go away, but it hasn't.  So new plan is to bike until UVM, run UVM with stress fracture, then boot for another 4 weeks (for reals this time and take it easy), then be back in the game in time for St. George in October.  I know running UVM is not the smartest thing in the world, but it is #10, which is a big goal of mine, it is on our home turf, and I figure I am going to have to be down for 4 weeks either before or after to get this dang thing healed, so I might as well slip in one more quick marathon.  Since I have more time between UVM and St. George (I think?) then I did between DC and UVM, I am hoping that it will really heal this time before I am back to the marathon madness.  Thanks for the support and comments.  Hope we can get together and run soon.

Biked 7 miles.  Leg feeling slightly better.  Advantage to not running is that I actually have time to do other things besides running like lift weights, do some sit-ups and do some push-ups.  Only been 4 days of this strength traning and I swear its making a difference :).  Love running but with 2 young kids cant justify more than the hour of exercise I already do a day, so trying to enjoy the new regime.

Played tennis for an hour with Scott.  Sister took kids for 24 hours since I took her kids for a week in February when she was in Spain.  Serioulsy enjoyed our first 24 hours non-kids that we have had in 18 months.  We went a little crazy--3 movies, shopping in Park City, tennis, massages (hot stone, my favorite!), and eating out in between.  Pretty sure I almost suffered death from movie-popcorn toxemia and gained 10 pounds in 24 hours if possible, but I am happy to report that today (Sunday) after that hour massage my leg is painless.  Not sure if it is the almost week off from running or the massage, but am hopeful that it will only improve until Saturday.  In the mean time, happy tapering week doing biking to me and heres to the worst marathon training of all time.   Me and Luz will have a great time regardless and hopefully NOT set a new worst PR.