1 Day to go

The last few weeks have been crazy busy. I'm headed out the door to go to day two of Blizzcon today, but I'm taking all my race gear with me. I won't be running the race, but I'll be walking it. My knee has improved considerably since visiting the doctor, even though all he did was tell me to stretch it out more. I'm a bit daunted by the fact I haven't really been able to test it, though I did a fair amount of walking the last few days and it's holding up well. I'm confident that tomorrow will go well enough all things considered.

19 days to go - Uncertainty looms

The race is only two and a half weeks away and I'm not in a good spot. I don't know what I did, but about two weeks ago my right knee said uncle and started complaining horribly. On the morning I was supposed to hit 8 miles, it threw a holy conniption and Katie made me stop after a mile because I was limping. I've been wearing a patella brace on my knee for the last ten days and staying off it in the hopes of some quick rehab. Tonight was the first time I've tried to run on it in that span of time, and the results weren't terribly encouraging. I started off strong but at about 3/4 of a mile the aching started to creep in and by a mile it was bordering on outright pain.

I'm in a pretty good pickle over this one. I don't have enough time before the race to fully rehab and get caught back up. In fact, I may not have time to fully rehab period, and it's not out of the question that I may scratch the race because of this. I'm hoping that I can somehow keep my lung and cardio stamina up while my knee recovers with some cross-training, but the day of the race is looking like it will be much harder than it did two weeks ago. I'd hoped to use the last week as a pure taper week and go easy, but it looks like that's going to be more like the three weeks leading up to the race instead. I'm going to be very, very tired when I cross the finish line.