Yeesh

Yes, yeesh. After that 5-miler on Monday, the pain definitely creeped back into my lower calf and I once again had to say off it all week. This time I'm going to let it heal completely, I promise! In the meantime I have been cycling like a mad-woman at the gym. I did a really rigorous 40-minute cycle yesterday and my legs felt like jello, which is always a good sign. I guess cycling doesn't work the calves too hard because it didn't bother me one bit. I've been keeping it wrapped, iced and elevated and now I just wait until I can get back out there again (hopefully this week). I plan on doing some indoor swimming this week and I'm really excited about that! I haven't trained in a pool since my triathlon-training days a year and a half ago!

You may be thinking I am sounding awfully calm about this whole thing and I've come to the sort of calm place before the storm. Right now I feel like I could do 13 miles (slowly of course). Granted, it would be really tough but I think I'm in the kind of shape now where I could finish if I absolutely had to. After these 5 mile runs, I have felt like I could do much more if it weren't for the little injuries that crop up. The plan on race day is to ignore these injuries when they crop up and continue on to the finish line. I usually stop when I feel the slightest twinge of anything but I'm sure I could press on to finish and just have to suck up the damage I'm going to do 24 hours after the race is over. Exciting, huh?!

Some more exciting news...I've reached my 35 lb. weight loss mark and am 2 lbs. away from my original goal! I think I'm changing that goal though, because even if I lost 2 more lbs. I would still look and feel overweight. So I'm thinking of trying to drop another 20 but we'll see how that goes. Right now I'm excited because I got rid of all my fat clothes this weekend and am pulling out stuff from college which was 4 sizes smaller than what I was wearing before all this started! Hooray! It feels so great to get back into my Banana Republic pants...I've missed you!!!

No, this isn't me modeling the pants, but they are so fabulous, they deserve a shout out!