Are you asking about how I got injured? I blame Trent for that and his silly marathon. Well, that and my silly idea to run the 2nd half of it fast so I could break 3 hours even though my longest run before the thing was 14 miles (once) and I'd only been running for 7 weeks and despite the fast that I had a few niggles in that same quad going into the race and that I had been avoiding hills almost entirely before the race because I wanted to avoid aggravating my achilles. And then there was the bright idea of running an interval workout even though it was hurting to test and see whether my quad would hold up when I knew darn well that I should be taking it easy. In short, I hurt my quad because I didn't listen to my body and got greedy with my training and racing. It didn't have anything to do with running every day. The good thing is that it's not a "real" injury like my achilles was. It's just one of those ordinary things that runners work through in the course of getting in shape and I'm not worried that it's going to affect my training in any major way.

We all get overly excited it's part of life.

Ha! You wouldn't know anything about that now would you.

who me??? excited??? no... Believe it or not I work very hard and not letting my excitement push me too fast too soon - it's not easy, but I try!

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Nice workout the other day! Why 0.56 miles?

Yep--lane 8, I presume?

yup! that was me!!

Sweet. Anyhow--good run. You got some much faster races in you. MTA: FYI: lane 1 is 400m, all the other lanes are longer... MTA2: You continue to break your new years resolution pretty outrageously.

I'm getting there. Yeah--it seems like a mileage jump but it's really just continuing what I had going before the leg was bothering me. I still have just a hint of a twinge down in the quad but it's definitely on the mend.