Instead of working this afternoon, I was kind of playing around on facebook. How much of our lives do we dedicate to social media? Dare I say too much? Now that I work from home, for myself, I actually play more, but with a relative amount of guilt when I know I should be working. Sportygirljewelry.com came up on facebook the other day and I fell in love with a necklace (or five) on there. Today another necklace showed up on facebook so I went to look at what she had posted and found her blog. Over on the right hand side, just as cute as it could be, is her daily mile widget. I immediately HAD TO HAVE ONE. And now I will run to update it and blog to show it off. HOW CUTE IS THIS LITTLE WIDGET?!
Last post I was waiting for my MRI. I ran my 5k. Then I had the MRI and went ahead and ran a 10k in between. MRI findings.....no tear. No surgery. Doctor's diagnosis: Really not sure what ails you, but there is nothing for me to cut so we are pretty much done here. I looked at him in mixed relief and panic and felt tears rising welling in my eyes. So, in a shaky voice I asked, if there is NOTHING major wrong, why doesn't my hip work like it is supposed to? He told me there is bursitis but also did suggest it could be the result of an ovarian cyst that was evident on the MRI. I am sure the pleading in my eyes was making him uncomfortable as I thanked him for the good news and asked him to please tell me how to fix my hip. He meekly offered me cortisone shots which I happily took.
Those shots hurt like CRAZY! I was sore for days. When the shot pain wore off, I was afraid they hadn't actually worked and when I did run again, it would still hurt. So I didn't run. And I didn't run. And I didn't run some more. I did some kickboxing (probably would have made the doctor cringe MORE knowing that) and I did some Pilate's, but I didn't run. I watched the Silver Comet 1/2 come and go. And I didn't run. Then I watched the Atlanta 1/2 on Thanksgiving approach and I didn't run. Finally, 2 days before Thanksgiving, I signed up for the Gobble Jog 5k in Marietta. I took my whole family plus a grandpa. It took about 2 seconds for race fever to take over.
So, now I am here. Ready to run. Ready to train for the Publix 1/2 in March, the Nice, France 1/2 in April, a full in the fall, and somehow, between now and September 2011, I am going to train for the Augusta 70.3.
I need a widget that tracks my swimming. One that starts with progress like "today I put my face in the water for 20 seconds and it felt scary" and gradually moves me up to "today I actually SWAM so far and in such time". Going to go Bing that right now! Maybe I will create it if it isn't already out there somewhere.
