Christmas!
I had a great Christmas. Everything was perfect.
Almost.
The EW got to make her first trip to Tulsa to spend Christmas with me and my family. From all accounts, everyone got along without incident (a good thing). We spent most of the weekend eating, entertaining my nieces and nephews, and eating some more. There is nothing like having the nephew run up stairs Christmas morning telling me and Courtney to "get up! Santa came and he can't open the presents until EVERYONE is down there". So we had to get up immediately. You can't beat Christmas with the kids.
On the gift front, my Garmin was upgraded to a 305 (my 201 got re-gifted to my sister contingent to me getting the 305). I can't wait to give the heart rate monitor a try and see how that modifies my training regiment.
Unfortunately, that may not be for a couple of days as Santa also brought me a bum Achilles. I am not sure how it happened. I ran 8 miles, averagiing 10:30 miles, Saturday morning and felt great. But somewhere between Kansas City and Coffeville, KS, my left Achilles started hurting. By the time Courtney and I stopped at the Braum's in Coffeville for lunch, I could barely put any weight on it.
This is the same injury that sort of sidelined me in the summer of 2005. I say "sort of" because while I took some planned time off from running, I still played softball, volleyball, tennis and everything else. So really, it didn't slow me down. I am hopeful that this will be the case, again.
That being said, I will be taking it easy this week. I may take a short run tomorrow and see how it does, but other than that, it is swimming, spinning and eliptical for me. I am supposed to run 14 on Saturday. We'll see how thing progress this week.
I hope everyone elses Christmas was a wonderful as mine was.
Almost.
The EW got to make her first trip to Tulsa to spend Christmas with me and my family. From all accounts, everyone got along without incident (a good thing). We spent most of the weekend eating, entertaining my nieces and nephews, and eating some more. There is nothing like having the nephew run up stairs Christmas morning telling me and Courtney to "get up! Santa came and he can't open the presents until EVERYONE is down there". So we had to get up immediately. You can't beat Christmas with the kids.
On the gift front, my Garmin was upgraded to a 305 (my 201 got re-gifted to my sister contingent to me getting the 305). I can't wait to give the heart rate monitor a try and see how that modifies my training regiment.
Unfortunately, that may not be for a couple of days as Santa also brought me a bum Achilles. I am not sure how it happened. I ran 8 miles, averagiing 10:30 miles, Saturday morning and felt great. But somewhere between Kansas City and Coffeville, KS, my left Achilles started hurting. By the time Courtney and I stopped at the Braum's in Coffeville for lunch, I could barely put any weight on it.
This is the same injury that sort of sidelined me in the summer of 2005. I say "sort of" because while I took some planned time off from running, I still played softball, volleyball, tennis and everything else. So really, it didn't slow me down. I am hopeful that this will be the case, again.
That being said, I will be taking it easy this week. I may take a short run tomorrow and see how it does, but other than that, it is swimming, spinning and eliptical for me. I am supposed to run 14 on Saturday. We'll see how thing progress this week.
I hope everyone elses Christmas was a wonderful as mine was.
posted by Kevin at 5:45 PM
3 Comments:
Hey buddy, I really wanted to see you this past weekend, but was only in T-Town on Friday night. I got to see most of the gang. Catch ya next time..
Oooh, you got what I wanted but Santa didn't bring! (although Santa was still kind) Can you swim with the 305?
Hope that Achilles feels better! I got sidelined for two weeks last March when mine just randomly started bothering me. No fun!
Hey man, hope the achilles is feeling better. I know how it feels. How can one tiny section cause such a big fuss?
Glad to hear you had a good Christmas, and I'll see you on the trails.
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