week 12, day 4

Yaaaaaaaaaay! I reached the 300 mile marker!  I can not believe I have run this many miles.  The sad thing is that, at this point, this may be all the miles I run for a while.  On Thursday's run I felt some tightness in my lower left leg, but continued to run.  Well it soon warmed up and felt better but I began to feel some discomfort in my ankle.  Once again, I continued to run.  I got back from my run and felt ok.  The rest of the day I was fine.  On Friday I felt some tenderness in my achilles.  Friday night I iced my achilles.  I woke up Saturday feeling some tenderness still, but I planned on running the 13 miles I intended for that day.  As soon as I set out to run my achilles was really bothering me.  It wasn't a shooting pain, but it definitely didn't feel good.  I continued to run.  By mile 4 it began to feel better.  I barely had any pain at all so I figured okay this can't be that bad of an injury if it feels better, right?  I met Bekie at mile 7 and continued to run 6 more miles.  I felt pretty good though.  There were still times that I felt some tenderness in my achilles, but not nearly as bad as when I began the run.  However, once I got home I could not go up or down the stairs without major pain.  So I immediately took advil, elevated my leg and iced.  I was so cold so I had to get a shower.  As soon as I was finished I iced more though (20 mins off 20 mins off for about an hour and a half).  We went out to dinner with my parents.  It still hurt to go up and down stairs, but walking on a flat surface was fine.  I iced for 20 minutes when we got back from dinner.  Then I went to bed.  I woke up this morning still unable to walk up or down stairs, but unable to walk on flat surfaces as well.  What the heck?  I can't believe this is happening to me!  Yeah, I prob shouldn't have continued to run yesterday, but besides that I have done nothing to risk an injury.  I am so frustrated and scared!  I iced for another 20 minutes this morning, but then I had to get ready for the Phillies game.  I took advil and iced 3 more times on the way to the game.  I still have pain when walking!  I am going to continue to ice and hope for the best.  If I have to I will skip this week's runs, but there is no way I can skip Saturday's run - 19 miles.  If I have to skip that then I'm done.  No more marathon for me.  I can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth!  All of this hard work for nothing?  No way, this can not be happening.  Please - someone have good news for me.  Anyone?  Maybe I am just not cut out to accomplish such a goal?  All I can do is pray that this heals extremely quickly!


304/463 miles complete!