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Got up Saturday and it was too cold to run.

 

Just kidding.

 

The plan Saturday was 8 or 10 miles.  I took off and about 2 miles (1.7 according to G-maps) in had to abort and almost didn't make it back home. 

Serious bad shin pains in both legs.  Serious bad.  I almost hitched a ride home.  It took me over an hour to walk 1.7 miles back home.  My legs felt completely dead except for the throbbing pain.  They were like big, fat, painfully throbbing tree trunks attached at my knees.  When I finally got home I rested on my back for about 1.5 hours, and the pain was gone, but not permanently.  It came back later in the weekend if I spent too much time on my feet.

 

Back on November 15 last year I wrote this.  Similar pain, but not as intense.  Mid November last year was about 6 weeks into my training.  I had just run roughly 26 cumulative miles.  As of Saturday I had run almost 75 cumulative miles.  Last year the pain came on Friday, Nov 12 and I rested until Wednesday, Nov 17.  The last strenuous activity that brought the pain was beach football in Galveston on Sunday, so I'll hold off until Thursday (it'll be tough, but I'll TRY not to run for a few days).  That'll be about the same amount of rest I had last year.

This sucks.

Not the not-running part, but the pain.

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to do the 20k this weekend.  I'm just not going to be ready for it.  That part does suck.