With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

well, this sucked for running.  Knee is not pleased with me.  I am not pleased with Knee.

We seem to be at odds over the proper amount of running and rest that is necessary.

Sleepless night worried about the marathon.  If I have to, can I walk it in enough time to not get kicked off the course?  Should I just try the 1/2 instead?  Or should I can it all and just wear my cheerleading pirate gear?????

2 weeks isn't far away.  Still have the MRI planned on Wednesday.  Hope to have more info by the end of the week.  "Sigh."

New race goal may be: All Fun, Not so much Run.

1 hour elliptical good workout - no knee troubles

tried the Pilates on the Ball video.  So sorry you all missed the most amusing morning of my life.  At one point, the ball flew out from between my legs and went hurling across the the room until it smacked into the front door.  Oh dear pooh.

knee still hurts trying to go up & down stairs here at work. Guess I'm going to keep letting it rest while I ice/medicate it.

strengthening

mri tonight

1 hour elliptical.  Finished reading the book Family Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma.  It's a good book with lots of great positive life building ideas- now if I can just put those ideas into actions. 

Here's one of the thoughts from the book that stuck out to me today, and of course I immediately thought of running: The people who really get on in this world and live big lives-personally, professionally, or spiritually- are those who are never satisfied with themselves.  They are constatnly pushing the envelope of their potential and growing stronger, wiser and more effective.   Not to say that we shouldn't love ourselves, but we shouldn't fall into the trap of complacency.

I see that desire to keep improving and move forward in so many of you bloggers.  Y'all really inspire me.  Thanks :-)

1 hour elliptical & MAT pilates.  No desire to get back up on that ball any time soon!

NO pain in knee going up & down stairs.  Want to run tomorrow, but think maybe just holding off on running till next weekend.  Let more healing continue & keep working on strengthening. 

Appt w/Dr on Mon to find out results of MRI.  Sure hope this Dr knows what they're doing.  I just hate it when they say "just quit running & try walking."  I want to tell them, "just chew on vitamins instead of eating real food."  Not very satisfying, is it? 

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH.

Saw a funny comedy show tonight called 3 Married Guys.  Good, Clean humor about married life.  Really needed to laugh- what a relief :-)

23 miles on the bike.  7.5 hard effort, 8 easy while Wyatt ran, 7.5 extra hard riding straight into a head wind the whole way home.