Last saturday, I started to do my 18 miler over on the shores of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, NY. I hate to say it but my knee was kinda twingy to begin with. So, when I started running it felt like I was starting at 14 miles from last week.
I ran 6 miles on that twingy knee. And I stopped running and decided I would be better off not running. The knee had not healed from the week before.
ERGO, I guess I'm quitting the marathon. The wisdom is that if you can run 18 miles then you can run a marathon. Conversely, if I can't run 18 miles, I guess I can't run the marathon.
So, I think I'm going to not do this marathon and do the NY Marathon in the fall. I think I definitely overtrained here. I tried to do too much in too short a time.
At the end of my six miles, my sister, her husband, and dad were at the end of the park. They were just beginning their hike. I joined up and did 5 more miles walking on my gimpy knee. so, 11 miles total that day.
It's a week later and I'm already getting fatter. gotta do something about that.
Posted by joel at April 1, 2005 04:50 PM