Healing

It's been almost eight weeks since I blew out the right shin on a twenty miler at San Tan Mountain Reserve. I've been to a chiropractor for five straight weeks and have steadily gotten better. Today marks my first run back at San Tan since December 23rd. It was a short 6.25 miler with my favorite running partner Susie. My fitness is low, but it's nice to be thinking of fitness and not my ankle/shin!

Hated missing two races (Cold Mountain and San Tan) in the Desert Trail Series by Aravaipa Running but better to miss some races and get better than to really have to miss some time because I was too stupid to stop.

This week's runs: Tue 4.5, Fri 5.85, Sun 6.25 for a total of 16.6. More of the same for the next few weeks, might get close to 20/wk, but got to be careful here.

Injuries Stink!

Still fighting these darn shin splints on my right leg. Tried cutting mileage way down but no improvement, actually maybe a little worse. Stopped all activity, running and tennis starting 1-16-11. Missing Aravaipa's Coldwater Trail race this morning, think I'm in mourning. :(

Went to a Chiro yesterday, one who has been mentioned in 'Running Times' magazine and has helped at least one 'big time' marathoner. I won't mention either name until I can see if the treatment is going to help me or not.

Chiro wants me to run though and check how it feels, okay, I'm up for that! Asked him if I could go run my 32k trail race, he said 'no'. Boo!!!

Load vs Capacity... Can you guess which one I overdid? There's a moron writing this blog.