Mon - 6.5 miles
Tue - 7 miles
Wed - 8 miles
Thu - 7.5 miles
Fri - 10.5 miles cutting the last 4 down
Sat - 6 miles
Sun - 13 miles
Total: 58.5 miles
I guess about the best thing I can say about this past week was it went better than the previous two. Still, overall it was pretty bad. Not only was I unable to complete any workouts, but I also spent most of the week in some amount of pain and the effort I was putting out never translated into the sort of pace it felt like it should. In spite of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at my body, I just can't seem to get going.
I'm pretty frustrated at this point. I started back running the week of Christmas and here it is mid-February and I don't feel like I've made much progress at all. Furthermore, I'm all banged up and not even able to train like I need to. I don't know where to go from here, but I'm very seriously considering taking the entire upcoming week off then easing back into things to see if that will get me feeling better. I've been struggling for nearly a month now with various aches and pains or dead legs and it's finally about gotten the best of me.
Anyway, I know I'm just aggravated as I type this mainly because I scrapped this morning's run due to the way I felt, but I do feel like running has become a cruel, bad joke for me. Over and over I try to make changes and get excited because I feel like I'm figuring some things out only to wind up in the same place within a few weeks. The cycle is beyond old. You can only push the reset button so many times before you have to admit that it's just not gonna work. If I didn't think my fall and the things that happened thereafter had something to do with all this, I'd just hang it up. As is, I do feel like I had some good things happening before my little incident with the manhole cover, so I guess I'll try to get myself recovered from all that and give it another go. I've only got so many more "comebacks" left in me though.
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Take some time off and we'll put our heads together and figure this out. You need to be patient though. Rome wasn't built in a day and your "comeback" will take some time. You have the determination to do this, now you just have to be patient and let your body have some recovery during your training.
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