two months one day

There are only two months and one day left until the Fargo marathon.

Eep!

My attempt at cross-training has been lacking in the past two weeks and I am getting nervous.

I see my physical therapist on Tuesday and am hoping I get a clean bill of health and am told to get out there and make up for all the miles I have lost.

No, I do not plan on telling him my knee still hurts occasionally.

Okay, I might.

I still have a feeling (in the very back dark dusty corner of my mind) that I have a chance at setting at PR at Fargo. And believe me, I am clinging to that feeling for dear life. It is the only way to keep my sanity.

So my question is, assuming I can start running pain-free this week, what should my last two months of training look like?  I've already missed quite a few long runs and my first scheduled 20 miler is coming up next Sunday.

Suggestions? Ideas? Words of encouragement?

diagnosis - part II

An update so soon?

Yep.

So I saw my physical therapist today at an obesity prevention task force committee meeting that we both sit on. He asked me how my leg was feeling and lo and behold, I did the right thing and told him that I ran a mile yesterday, you know...to work on my form. I also told him that it hurt like hell.

I explained the pain and before I finished he smirked and asked me when our next appointment was.

Three weeks from Monday I told him.

No running until then he told me.

Whaaaaaat?

He thinks I might have a stress fracture.

But the x-rays didn't show a stress fracture!

Bummer. HUGE bummer if I really do have one.

Thankfully he said everything except running was still a go.

I came home and drowned my sorrows in five or six (who's counting??) spoon fulls of chocolate peanut butter that I made the other day (can you say YUM?!).

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In other news...I swam laps this morning for 30 minutes. Really, I probably swam for 20 minutes and rested for 10...swimming is H-A-R-D!