Veronica, that is seriously cool and have fun! Share pictures :-) Hope you are feeling better - it sounds painful!

I am SO proud of my little accomplishment yesterday. Little compared to many of you, but the very first time I've run that far! It was also rather stupid since I've not been running, at all, but I couldn't resist it and I appear to have gotten away with it. Apparently all of my Kettlebell and joint mobility work is helping with other things!

I helped out at the awesome Midwest Mountain Bike Clinic yesterday, and after my morning duties, I put on my running clothes, laced on my lovely Brook Cascadias and water bottle belt and headed for Limekiln. This is the trail on which I received neck injury almost 3 years ago on the mountain bike. This trail is 2.2 miles one way, and it IS an out and back. Obviously I didn't run all 4.4 miles - I am far from ready for that amount of uninterrupted running, but from what I can figure, I ran about 3 miles of that. SO...unofficial trail 5K :-)

The only reason I didn't run the full distance was because of my right knee - it gets cranky if I've not been running regularly and I've not been, so it got breaks. When my left heel cord and hammie started talking to me a bit from my ankle inflexibility on that side I walked the remaining distance. I tried to be aware of how/when that foot pushed off the ground but just couldn't keep track of it with all of the rocks, roots, ruts, and thorny bushes along the trail. It was a LOT of fun and I ran far more of it than I dreamed I would be able to.

And I am not very sore today! My legs are a bit tight and fatigued today - but that is ok as it is a rest day and I have foam rollers and other implements at home :-) The cool part is that my breathing never becomes an issue when I hit the trails, it is other things that causes my walking breaks. I like that!