This week was a bit of a down week from a training perspective. I'll get to that in a minute though. First, a fund raising update. As of this morning, $5,975 had been raised for DFCI via the generous donations of many people! That's a fantastic amount and hopefully the positive response continues from more people and company matching efforts. I'm trying to update the Barr Impact Statement provided by the program so that you can see what types of research the donations are helping and the potential impact this could have on cancer therapeutics.
Back to the training aspect now...Over the last 1-2 weeks I've started to feel twinges of pain in my left thigh. Apparently my injuries have multiple personality disorder as at one moment they'll manifest as pain in my quad, then move more towards my knee 30' later, then move again later in the day. Not fun since I can't really pin down the pain not identify when the injury may have happened. This led me to not worry so much about an injury and thus go to the track workout on Tues PM. About 2/3 of the way through, I definitely felt pain coming on and decided that I should stop for the night. At least I felt a sense of accomplishment in that common sense won over desire to finish the track workout. I mean 20+ years of education does not necessarily correlate with common sense, and perhaps the opposite is true? :) I digress, leaving the workout, I was a bit down on the day and injury. 2mo before the NYC marathon, an overuse injury popped up, was this really happening again? Sure, finishing is the goal, but I'd really been gearing up to run at a near or sub-4hr pace.
After Tuesday PM, I reconnected with old friends - ice and IBU - and we got together ever few hours. It made me wonder what % of IBU sales are a result of athletic injuries? I skipped the Crossroads run on Thurs PM, which was hard since the weather was gorgeous and it is a great social atmosphere. While preparing for the DFMC group run on Sat I wondered what I would be able to/should do. I wanted to run, but should I? I knew that I could do Saturday's run, but the goal is bigger than 14-16mi in Feb. I ended up running 9.5mi and taking the pace nice and slow. That said, as I finished, I definitely felt that I could have kept running and in fact pushed the pace more. That knowledge definitely improved my outlook. Also, running as I did allowed me to see a hawk sitting in a tree about 12 feet off the ground next to the running trail. In meeting RJ a few weeks ago and hearing about his story and treatment I recalled his approach to overcoming cancer...stay positive and believe in yourself. Overall the week ended on an upswing and RJ's words provided an appropriate motto to remember as I work through this training setback.
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