I stopped running.<\/p>\n
It seems that Murphy’s Law has struck again. \u00a0I go ahead and talk about my pain-free training annnnnnnnd the pain begins. \u00a0I did an outdoor run about a month ago and I’m not sure if it was the actual pavement pounding or just poor luck in general that started it up, but it is definitely back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n
I spent the next couple of runs biting my lip and powering through only to find that the pain was not only present while running, but all day long, and for days after. \u00a0I haven’t tried for a few weeks now and it still hurts to walk down stairs or to bend quickly at the knee, which I do once or twice every minute while chasing around my son.<\/p>\n
I’m heartbroken. \u00a0I really thought I was going to be ok. \u00a0I thought I was past this. \u00a0I thought I had beat it. \u00a0Dumb knee.<\/p>\n
Anyway, all is not lost. \u00a0I’m still planning on running a 10k in May. \u00a0I just don’t think I can slowly creep up to the 10k in preparation for it. \u00a0I might have to just do a blast on the day of and suffer the consequences after. \u00a0But I will continue to work on my stamina and endurance through other means (elliptical and more recently spinning – which I am loving).<\/p>\n
Thank you to all of you for your supportive comments and emails. \u00a0It meant a lot to me to know I had such a large cheering section. \u00a0I feel quite disappointed in myself for giving up almost before I started, but such is life. \u00a0 And So there it is. \u00a0My update. \u00a0Sad, yes, but there are worse things. \u00a0And I’m choosing not to focus on any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I stopped running. It seems that Murphy’s Law has struck again. \u00a0I go ahead and talk about my pain-free training annnnnnnnd the pain begins. \u00a0I did an outdoor run about a month ago and I’m not sure if it was the actual pavement pounding or just poor luck in general that started it up, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[28,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}walking<\/del> trying to walk around in that much pain doesn’t make it worth it.<\/p>\n