January 23, 2004 Journal Entry

Posted Friday, January 23, 2004

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I am back! Well, not totally back, but I'm getting in some short runs that actually feel like runs. I saw a fantastic doctor here in Eugene (Dr. Stan James - the same guy who did Joan Beniot's knee surgury just before the 1984 marathon trials). I did some PT for a while, and then began a walking schedule at the beginning of December. I moved on to a Galloway style walk-jog routine, and by the end of December I was doing some short and slow continuous runs. A vacation and a nasty case of the stomach flu sidelined me for two weeks, but 2 weeks have been really good. My achilles does still hurt a bit when I run on hills, and I may still need surgury eventually to remove some bone from my heals. But I have gone from 11 minute pace to mid 7's pretty quickly, and managed runs up to 5 miles so far.

I'm planning at least one race on either February 8th or the 14th, and I might do both if training is going good. I would likely run my slowest races ever for those distances (5K and 4 miles) and almost certainly my first age group losses in many years, but I just want to get out there into the racing scene again.

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