Saturday I planned on running 5 miles. Okay so I really wanted to run 6 because I ran 5 miles the previous Saturday. I picked a bigger hill, and a path that had more hills period than previously. I was pleased when I made it up the first large hill.

My personal trainer has told me the gradual hills are harder than the steep ones. I agree with him but I also know that hill I ran Saturday was not exactly easy. When I was about 1/2 way up the hill my calf started to hurt. I thought I could run it out, and kept telling myself, “No pain, no gain.” I remembered an article I had read about a man who ran with all 10 toes broken. Talk about painful! I knew this pain was nothing compared with that. So I pressed on.

The first three-fourths of my run was up hill. I was tired. I kept hoping someone would come along and say, “Pardon me, but walking is okay too.”  No one did. So I trudged on.

I decided to take a 5 second stand-still break before I finished my last 3ish miles. And that was where I stopped. I could go no further running. I tried. I decided from where I was I would just run home. I could not run. I could barely walk.

Our doctor lives in that neighborhood and I kept thinking if I knew which house was his I would ring his doorbell and say “FIX IT!” but alas I didn’t know which one was his house. My next thought was to walk to our pastor’s house and ask him to take me home. Then I realized Dear man and the girlies had gone to the bank and I had no key.

Then I thought I’d have our pastor call here and have them come and get me. Then I realized I couldn’t do that either because they weren’t home.

Some days I’m just a genius like that.

So I continued walking home.

And my leg stopped hurting. I did run some more on the way home but it wasn’t pretty and almost can’t be counted as running but more like very fast hobbling. I told Dear man I think I would have been fine if I hadn’t stopped to rest. He said I might have actually done more damage if I hadn’t stopped.

I don’t know what is wrong. I have pain from my heel to my knee. I am pretty sure it isn’t shin splints I have had those before and this is different. I was talking to a friend today and he said it sounded to him like a ligament thing. Great. Just great.

Tomorrow I need to call our doctor and get in. I am hoping he doesn’t say I can’t run, because right now I can’t NOT run.

I checked my mileage on Saturday, I ran 3.5 miles. I think because of the run being predominately up hill it took me 44 minutes. Not the fastest by any means.  I have a little over 2 months to get ready for my next big race. And I have 1.2 miles further to run before race day.