A word to the wise – don’t take two weeks off near the end of an 18 week training program and sit on your ass. If you hurt your ankle, find some cross training activity you can do to keep your stamina up.
I went for my first run today after hurting my ankle more than two weeks ago. I decided that since it was raining and it was my frist run on my less than 100% ankle that I’d do the run inside on the treadmill. It went ok I guess, but I only managed to run 4.5 miles and then walk an additional mile.
I’ve got four more weeks to finish off my training before race day. I said I was going to do it so I’ll do it, but I’m thinking that my lofty goal of 3:45 is a pipe dream. At this point I’m sure I’ll be happy with finishing the marathon in 4:30 or less.
Now the difficult task of figuring out where to pick up with the training schedule. I think I may have to modify it a bit to suit the time I have left.