Tim, I'm not you but if it was me I'd be seriously considering option 1. Get that Boot on and get off the roads. Let all those 4 injuries heal up completely. When you come back you'll have some loss of fitness, but it'll come back really quick. Within a month or two, if fully healed, you'll be right back in the game. Just my far away viewpoint. Bill

Tim, I'm not you but if it was me I'd be seriously considering option 1. Get that Boot on and get off the roads. Let all those 4 injuries heal up completely. When you come back you'll have some loss of fitness, but it'll come back really quick. Within a month or two, if fully healed, you'll be right back in the game. Just my far away viewpoint. Bill

Tim: I have to echo Bill's thoughts to the "T". I'm not you and I know that were I in your shoes I don't think I would like it, however if I really thought about it then that would be the best option overall. Besides at least it's winter time and you'll be just about getting back into top shape when the weather starts warming up. Just my 2 cents! Whatever you decide to do I wish you the very best and of course a speedy recovery.

Hugs to Amy and Daniel - glad it went well today! Wishing Daniel a speedy recovery. Eliz, you were sure right about the vacuum from political ads being very quickly filled by Christmas ads! We keep the mute button handy too. Craneium, good luck with the v-ball championships! Sounds exciting! Oh, man, Timbo, so sorry to hear the bad news. But it's a really good thing you went to the doctor, and didn't just take time off and hope it got better. Work has been really slow this week - we have lots of clients under contract but we're waiting on information from many of them before we can get to work on their air permit applications. So I took today off - I had to take DD to the orthodontist anyway, and run errands. Took the day off from running, too, since I had 3 carpy runs in a row. Hope a day off makes my long run tomorrow more sproinky. And I really shouldn't complain about carpy runs, as they're better than not running at all.

biketm ... I would go with option one. You want to knock this thing completely out. Plus, it eliminates the possibility of overdoing it when you should be taking it easy. Not that you would ever do that (16 miles ). I tore a muscle in my groin a couple of years back. It was pretty bad. Blood draining down past my knee bad. I missed 6 weeks running. After that I eased back into it. I ended up running a 15K 3 or 4 weeks after starting up and did surprisingly well. The point is that you are very fit now, and you won't lose all of your fitness in 2 months. It may feel like it that first week back, but you'll regain fitness much faster than someone that went into it living a sedentary lifestyle. My 2 cents ... good luck.

a short gym workout tonight. 3.09 mile run, 9:36 average pace, & 30 min. on the elliptical. stretching. whirlpool. now i'm relaxed & tired. will read the rest of the thread tomorrow.

Took a personal day to avoid a mind-numbing in-service and enjoyed a rare morning run on a school day. Set out without much of a plan other than to see how far I could run without taking a walk break. Ran 5 miles with only one 0.1-mile walk (right before a rather urgent trip back home to the bathroom ) at a decent pace for moi. Now off to stretch and shower before some long-overdue self-pampering at the salon. Haven't had my hair cut since late July, so I'm going all out and getting some highlights, too. Then off to the shore Eliz

That sounds like a great day. 'The highlighting' part is lost on me (I'm bald), but I catch your drift......

I'm running 9 tomorrow Tim. And I'm dedicating my race to you. I'll be thinking and praying for you tons Tim. For patience, thorough and speedy healing, patience, no complications and some more patience.