Three Things Thursday....The S Edition

1. Sorry.......am I sorry I kept running in Maine after I stepped in the pot hole, fell quickly as I threw out the F bomb loudly (no one was around, mostly vacation homes)?  Well yes and no. I limped a few feet and then ran the two miles back to the hotel. My leg didn't hurt and although it occurred to me not to lengthen my run I never considered cutting it short. All my thoughts were on running the next day. Before I got back.... it still wasn't hurting but I was aware I could feel something which I soon found out was my ankle touching my shoe where my ankle doesn't usually touch my shoe. Must have been that whole swollen thing.  I may have wish I'd been smarter and known to stop running but I don't see me doing it differently at the time. In the future the same thing may cause me to take a different course.  And of course I didn't exactly give my ankle a lot of TLC the rest of the day either. Oh we are so much smarter with hindsight.

2. Smart....am I being smart now and listening to my body?  Why yes I am. Thank you for commenting and telling me to listen to my body. I checked my blog comments several times in the last couple of days because I needed to hear others telling me not running is smart. I so badly wanted to run today.  It didn't hurt like yesterday.  But I had publicly said I would not run today and I didn't!!  I do plan to swim tomorrow but I am not sure when the whole run thing will happen again. I have not been singing running's praises for quite awhile so I am amazed at how much I miss it but man I do. Johann said it best in my comments with yet another S word: "Even though it sucks big time it is still the fastest way back to full recovery." 

3. Swimming....how I love you swimming!  Your low "impactedness" allows me to get a workout in.  I may not be any good but you don't care.  Up and down the pool, up and down the pool.  That's not the way to get better?  Who cares!  I am working out, I feel good when I am done, my confidence in swimming is building, I know I can do the distance and not drown and most important of all, you are keeping me sane.

And I'm aware that I am hitting the publish button on Wednesday, not Thursday, but in order to be sure there is room for me in our newly crowded pool I need to get up at a ridiculous hour and get there.  No time to check Facebook, play Words with Friends or publish a post.