Each Day Is a Gift

Feet felt a bit better so I thought I'd wear the Altra Torin.  Ran to Karen's to meet her and her 12 yo daughter, Grace and her friend Keylee, and Amanda.  We missed each other as they ran to my house and I ran to Karen's, we passed on different streets.  I turned back towards home and met them halfway from my street.  Six of us ran up on the MCT and when the girls reached 3 miles they headed home while Amanda, Karen and I continued on for a bit more.  It was very windy going north and I nearly went in an asthma attack. 

Myrtle 10 reps.

4 circuits of Pfitzinger's core ST.

By evening my feet, heels and ankles (particularly the left) were really bugging.  Iced and massaged out the plantafacia. 
 

27F sunny slight breeze.  Ran with Karen and Wendy west on MCT.  After a brief stop at the 1500W bathroom for drink, I told Karen to do couple of hill repeats on the hill west to the freeway while Wendy and I jogged up the hill slowly.  Karen ran up the hill powerfully then back down and up again and caught us.  She did awesome! :)

After I got home, had breakfast and showered, walked 2 miles with hubby in the old Altra (that was a mistake, the shoes not hubby).   Feet/heels/ankles were hurting bad.  Iced and massaged, took 2 ibupofen after we got home.  Stinks to have PF this close to marathon! :(
 

No running today.  Feet still bugs.  Hubby's check up with cardiologist, Dr. Miner today.  His blood pressure has been low (barely 100/70s) so dr. dropped all but one blood pressure meds, Metropolo XL, a beta-blocker to prevent heart failure.  His b/p used to be 160s/80s (as high as 180s/90s) and was on 4 different b/p meds.  So this is good improvement.  Will probably need to have a stress test and echocardiogram as part of transplant screening.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Lamb.

No running today.  Dr. visit with nephrologist at PD clinic.  Hubby's lab work from two weeks ago came back within range (renal pt. has a specific goal range, which are not the same as the general population).  So we are happy that his peritoneal dialysis is doing its job giving him 15% of renal function.  He is feeling so much better now compare to a few months ago. 

37F (feels like 30F), cloudy with intermitten rain, windy.  Karen ran 4 miles before meeting me for her 12 miler.  We ran east on MCT.  Turned around west into a fierce headwind and rain.  Glad I wore a jacket and gloves, not so for Karen whose hands were frozen.  I had to walk all the uphills when my breathing became labored (darn asthma). 

Stretch and ice my feet rolling on frozen water bottles. 
 

37F partly cloudy.  I was running on the sidewalk about 0.25 mile into the run, I encountered a mutt which started barking so I ran into the road out of his way.  But he started coming after me and nibbed at my heels so I turned to fend him off.  In an attempt to kick him as I turned, I fell and busted my left knee and right elbow.  Should've stayed home cause the run was super slow (AP: 11:23) with sore knee and achy PF. 

Walked a mile with hubby.  He jogged between telephone poles 4 times.  So proud of him.  Stretch and rolled on ice bottle.   Left foot really hurts.  I seriously don't know if I can run the marathon a week from today...sigh! :(