New Beginnings

It has been some time since I posted an entry to this blog, but with Fall on the way and a possible marathon on the horizon, I thought it would be instructive (for me at least, if not for the slim handful of friends who are followers of this intermittent blog) to begin again. 

Yes, there has been a touch of Fall in the air! - those cool temperatures a harbinger of good training days ahead, if only I can shake these annoying injuries of the past two weeks.  I had planned to run the Twilight 5-K in Highlands Saturday night and would have, despite the rain, except for an IT Band issue that seems to be more than just the usual niggle.  And then Friday I apparently stepped on a dead or dying bee while walking barefoot at home.  (Do they die lying on their backs, stinger pointed upward, just for the opportunity of that last dying blow?)   I thought they had all been killed last month when in desperation I fogged the upstairs bedroom with poison (after getting in bed one night and discovering one waiting for me there).  But this one must have survived, and hit the middle toe in my left foot, which swelled up so badly that I could barely pull on my boots.  I limped around all day Friday in increasingly excruciating pain, and Friday night found me applying ice most of the evening to reduce the swelling.  Thank God for a beesting that put the exclamation mark on my wavering decision not to run this race!

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Friday we are planning (weather permitting) to climb Mt. LeConte.  And next Monday, August 26, marks the beginning of yet another 16-week marathon training plan.  Once again to the summit!