Revenge of the Toe.

It's funny how one weekend I can run 26.2 miles and the following weekend a 5k seems like a monumental distance.

We had a 5k this morning. And it didn't come with ease. My hip was in a lot of pain from a Saturday afternoon of debauchary and I've got something going with my toe.

For the past few weeks, I've noticed one of my right toenails get increasingly thicker. Ew, I know. After the marathon is when it really started bothering me. So I did some research this past week and found that I should file it down and all that jazz (I also found that sometimes your toenail can get as thick as 3/4"--thankfully mine was no where near that gross). So Friday night I filed it down and got it looking normal again. But it was still sore. Part of me is a little nervous that I still might lose it...super nasty.

No bueno.

So it came as no surprise to me this morning that my toe was acting up during the run in a fantabulous throbbing fashion. My toe was finally trying to take its revenge from all the beating the past few months. But, to hell with it...I kept running.

My legs still felt like lead from last weekend, but it felt so good to be out and running again. I've had the itch since Thursday to get out and pound the pavement again.

It wasn't a PR day by any means, but I'm pleased that I finished in 33:18. I just wanted to keep my miles under 11:30, and I did that...an average pace of 10:44, finishing 67/132 in my division (right at the 50% line) and 503 out of 937 overall.

Right on. Go me.

In other fun news...Mike and I are in the process of finalizing our spring marathon plans. And we think a certain running couple from the south might be especially pleased. Although nothing is set in stone yet, but we anticipate having everything registered by Turkey Day...

I've also started reading Pfitz's Advanced Marathoning...and I am EXTREMELY intimidated by the program, but still slightly excited by all the crazy double digit runs. Neither of us think we have it in us to follow the program religiously, so we're looking at making a few minor modifcations to the schedule (doing 20 weeks rather than 18 or 24, as well as losing one of the three 20-milers and lighter mid-week long runs--speed training is definitely a must this go around and we know it). I'll keep you posted on all that stuff though!!

Okay...it's back to watching scary movies with my hottie of a hubby. I hope you all had a great weekend and remembered to change your clocks back for an extra hour of sleep!

Keep on running, campers!