One Step Forward and One Step Back

Well this week has been both frustrating and rewarding so far. I felt so glad to have my blog up and my web site mostly complete. It was very rewarding to have such positive feedback from my first few e-mails to my friends and co-workers and folks started to write on my wall of my web site with encouragement which always helps! But this week has been frustrating as well, I have been very tired all week and no matter what I eat, I have a craving to eat more which is not very good for my balanced diet since what I crave is junk! I think I got a little overzealous last week and overtrained and it is manifesting itself in a number of ways including my diet. I also only got 0.5 miles out on my run Monday and had to turn back on a beautiful day made for a nice long run! My soleus muscles in my calves knotted up and I could barely move by the time I hit the entrance to Great Hollow Lake (the local park). The urge was to keep going and hope it would clear up as my muscles warmed up, but I did the smart thing and turned around for home. 1.1 miles isn't even worth getting into my running shoes for, but that's all I had to show for my run and I was furiously icing my legs when I got home. I could barely walk all evening, and yesterday (Tuesday) I didn't dare try to run yet though I felt somewhat better... I did strength work only and was careful not overdo it on my calves.
Even today (Wednesday) I did not run, I brought my Aqua Jogger belt with me to Boston for work and spent 50 mind numbing minutes in the company pool doing pool running. It was a good workout and I felt good as a result, thank goodness my friend Paul Moyse turned me onto pool running as a zero impact alternative last year! I hope to run in the morning and see how my legs fair as I am only 2 days away from the first mountain race in the Adirondacks this weekend. Say a prayer for my legs! They feel normal tonight and I'll stretch again and hope for the best tomorrow.
Oh yea, I got my story posted on a blog site called the Good Guy Club... http://www.thegoodguyclub.com/blog/ thanks Rob! The more people that hear about what I'm trying to do the more people might be interested in getting involved! I'd love to have my shirt PLASTERED with tributes and have to start adding them to my shorts too :-)