So I participated in my first triathlon on Saturday! In the spirit of completing race reports long after the race is finished — here goes. As you may remember, I hurt my leg last winter and spent a lot of time swimming while I couldn’t run for ~6 weeks. I’m not new to swimming; I was on […]
Today was the Mid-Winter Classic. I was supposed to run that race. I paid money and everything. But after a 5-week hiatus from running after the leg injury, I knew it was not the best idea to pin on a bib this morning. Not racing today was a hard decision. There is always this fear […]
The name of the blog might be Pattie Runs, but for the past four weeks, there has been no running. I did try it out on Monday night. Without the ace bandage, because I think that was making it worse, not better. It was better in the sense that I didn’t feel this automatic pinching […]
So, today I did something that I haven’t done in at least 4 months. I went swimming. Considering I a) know how to swim and b)intend to finish a triathlon this year, that fact is kinda shameful. Really? I didn’t get in a pool once since December? Swimming pulls back a lot of memories for me. […]
Sometimes taking a break is a good thing. And there are a lot of good things to this break! I have not had a real *run* since Friday (though I did have a few painful attempts at running on Saturday and Sunday). Today is Wednesday. I know that is has only been 3 days since […]
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