Saturday April 30, 2011 - 5 miles along the canal

I've tried 1-2 miles on the treadmill several times and that ended in pain. Today I was dying to go on the 14 mile marathon training run with friends but I knew there was no way I could go that far so I thought I would try 2 miles once again. I'm happy to say that I went just over 5 miles with very little pain. I am trying not to get too excited but so hoping and praying this means I'm on the mend and can get back to training. I did feel a twinge here and there but not nearly as bad as before so I'm hopeful yet maybe a little skeptical. It felt so great to get out there and run and although I couldn't go the distance with the others, at least I got to go part of the way. It was very hard for me to make myself turn around miles before they did but I'm trying to take it easy and ease back into this and avoid further injury. Down to six weeks until the marathon so I've lost critical training time but if I can run from here on out, hopefully I can at least finish the race even if it's pretty slow.