Mission Accomplished

I hope that the title of this post doesn't bring "W" to mind. What a joke! No, I actually did accomplish my first mission. I ran three times this week! I know that's not really a big deal, but it is when you haven't accomplished that feat in six-plus months and you were very sore after the first run of the week. I will take all of the small victories I can get right now.

The human body is amazingly adaptable. On Wednesday, I was still hurting a bit from Monday's run. At that point, I was somewhat doubtful that I would run three times. By Friday though, I felt pretty good and went for my late night run. I was a little sore on Saturday, but nothing serious. I was actually surprised by how good I felt today. Nothing hurt and I was able to move at a respectable pace considering that it was very humid outside. Today's 4-miler brings me to a total of 12 miles for the week. Next week, my goal is to run three more times and I plan to step up the mileage by a mile or two. I want to take it slowly at first so that I don't overextend myself. When I started running after my stress fracture in 2004, I started training for the Knoxville Marathon almost immediately and my body was not ready for that kind of training load. I struggled throughout most of the training and did not run well at Knoxville. I don't want to make that mistake again.

It was a good week for me and I feel like I'm solidly back on the road to being in shape again. The battery on my laptop is getting dangerously low so I need to sign off for now, but I have some other topics to post later.