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Happy New Year! and Happy 1-11-11. Don't you just love it when the date does amusing things like that?
I ran 2 miles on New Year's day, late in the afternoon to give my head time to clear. We stayed up too late on NYE and tried way too many kinds of Prosecco.
It seemed like a good way to start 2011, but all in all I am still not really running: I spent November sick--head cold to sinus infection to massive influx of antibiotics, and December treading very carefully in hopes of not relapsing into sickness while everyone around me got sick.
Somewhere in mid-December it occurred to me that my leg hadn't hurt in a good week. So I experimented with some elliptical and water running, and new year's day I hit the pavement.
And got achy all over again.
I have made the trip to the local running store and procured a pair of arch-supporting inserts. I've been wearing them for the last 3 or 4 days and am planning on a week of wear before I try a run in them...so far they seem to be helpful?
I am inches away from another doctors visit to try and (MRI, bone scan, other expensive medical words) figure out what the hell is wrong with my leg. I feel like I've given it everything its ever asked for and it is just being a bitchy prima donna about life right now.
Also: I could really use a run. We are *still* trying to buy the same house--its like a hobby at this point, trying to buy this particular piece of property..we're on our 2nd bank and 3rd loan-officer-person, but things are actually starting to look promising...fingers, toes and everything else you can think of, crossed. So stress levels are kind of high. And pockets are kind of empty. On the one hand I am kicking myself for my little jaunt to Greece and England this fall, and on the other, it is likely the last trip I will get to take for the foreseeable future, so its nice I got to go see friends and visit new places while I still had the chance.