Kristen, Adam, and "Great"
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting my family in Indiana. It was a big deal as I had not seen most of them for close to ten years and nobody on that side of my family had even met my wife.
The greatest part of the trip was spending time with my 96 year old Great Grandmother. “Great,” as we call her, has always been a part of my life and I have fond memories of staying at her house as a child.
Recently I set out to run eleven miles. It was my longest distance yet. It started out like a typical run but around mile five a bone in my foot shifted causing me a lot of pain. With each step the pain increased and it wasn’t long before I was running with a limp.
When this happens, you start looking at the situation in terms of risk vs. reward. You try to figure out if hitting your goal today will hurt you so much that next time you’ll be sitting on the couch instead of running. Consistency is everything and it’s better to do less and be able to do it again in a couple days than go all out and be immobile for the next few weeks.
Experience taught me that this injury, worst case, would knock me out for a week. I knew my training and travel schedule and thought that I could handle a week off so I went for it. But man was it going to hurt.
