2 weeks off running

Saturday, I was doing my 1 hour run (this was the long one for me lately, just a couple of 30min then try for about an hour on the weekend), and I had to stop and walk. Usually I start to feel the IT rub in the last 10min or so, and it's not too bad. But this time it was sharp and painful and I know that when you feel the IT rub, it's a bad thing, just stop.

So I have fully accepted that I need to take full rest from running for it to really heal. I will probably take 2 weeks, and just try to go for it at the UBC tri... why not? I was probably never going to run any faster than about 41-42min and with all the time away from intensity and volume, I was probably looking at closer to 43, now with 2 weeks complete rest form running I bet I won't be more than 1min slower. It's amazing how close you can continually be to your best times, but the amount of effort to get that last 1-2% fitness gain is quite substantial.

In all this crap from running, I have actually been feeling really excited. I watched the Vancouver marathon Sunday morning with Colin's dad, and I got the bug. I have that excited feeling you get when you finally know what you want. And I want to run another marathon. I think I will totally get this leg better, by really giving it some good time off and then set my sights on a marathon. I really don't understand why I think that even though I can't run now, I'll be able to train for a marathon in the near future?? Oh well, just gotta go with the gut feeling.

So I'm kinda not into the races I have planned this summer, it sucks enough that I had to pull the plug on my aspirations for a couple of fast 1/2 ironman, and content myself with the ol' Olympic distance. But now I may be throwing in the towel for the Olympic as well. Maybe way of not getting my hopes up, since my running is non-existent, is to just focus on something else, set myself a new goal to look forward to.

Oh well. There's is so much excitement for me coming up ... getting married ... going to Europe ... who can be too bummed about anything!