What a weekend. I woke up Friday morning feeling like poop, so I decided once again to take the day off from running. I knew as long as I could get my long run of 12 miles in, I was better off for my mental health with just getting some rest. Saturday I was going to run but due to some skating student drama, I had to go into the rink early so I missed another day of running. Oops.
After my skating lesson at noon, I left with Nick for Salt Lake to go buy one of these:
This is the seller’s ad photo from the KSL.com website where I first spotted it:
I have wanted a cute cruiser bike since last summer when we bought one for Nick, and now for my (early) birthday present, I have one of my own! I am so excited for summer evening bike rides, riding down to the farmer’s market (it even has a cute little basket that I can unlock and take around the market with me!), and at this point, just taking a break from all the running to bike instead. I can’t wait!
Anyway, we went and completed the transaction, poked around Salt Lake a little, and then went to a Mother’s Day dinner with my mom and dad. We were going to head back to Ogden but Nick’s brother, Ryan, was supposed to be dropping by so we went over to his parents’ house to wait for him. Long story short, he has finally decided to break things off with his fiancee (this is SUCH a good thing. She is total crazycakes.) He sat with Nick for over 3 hours and told him all the things she has been doing to him for the past year; she has been emotionally, verbally and even physically abusive with him. He is going to get out. Thank god. So anyway, we stayed at Nick’s parents’ house until 2:30 in the morning, and then we finally left for home. We finally went to bed a little after 4 am. It dawned on me at that time that in just under two weeks, I will be waking UP at that same time to get ready for the marathon.
Sunday morning. 8:30 am. 4.5 hours of sleep. Time to go run 12 miles! Awesome! I knew I had to do it, but I SOOOOOO did not have the energy or motivation. I got about 2 miles in and my right knee just started to KILL me. I ran back down the hill to give up and go home, but then I decided I would try running a mile over to the high school track to see if the soft surface would allow me to get my 12 miles done without much pain. It worked, and although I had to do about 30 laps around the track, I did it. My knee felt fine on the track surface, but back on the road as I headed home, it started to hurt a little bit again. I don’t understand what I did to it. It didn’t hurt like this on Wednesday when I ran 5 miles. It didn’t even hurt this much right after the 20 miler last weekend.The pain was on the outside of my knee, and underneath my kneecap. I guess I need to start icing it after my runs.
So a piddly 17 miles for the week last week, but at least I did my long run. I missed two 5-milers, but with this nagging knee thing, I don’t want to push it. I just need to hold steady. This week I’m supposed to run 3, 4 and 4 with an 8 mile “long” run this weekend. I will just see how the knee is feeling and go from there, I guess. I just don’t want to lose any fitness and endurance at this point, but I also want to be as healthy as I can be come May 21. Only 12 more days!
