The road...

So much of time these days is spent on one road or another. Once it was just a road away from my own head, thoughts and emotional state. For a long time its been pounding pavement, logging miles run and building stamina and fitness. In this last week, I have been trying to find the road to a different kind of recovery...overcoming injury. Its so crucial right now to be getting stronger and this calf "thing" may keep me from running but I cannot allow it to prevent me from growing stronger. Tomorrow will be one week of not running. The longest for me in at least 2 years. It hasn't made me idle but it sure has changed things. Yeah, I'm addressing fitness issues long left on the back burner. Its so easy to continue to do what you've become comfortable with, all the while neglecting things of importance. In training and in life. There was never any doubt that other aspects of my fitness were in need of tweaking but when standing before the workout buffet...I always chose running.

The yoga has been more challenging than I remembered. Its been daily. I did a marathon on the bike Sunday. 2 serious power miles yesterday morning before work and 15 miles on the mountain bike tonite. Every lunch time I have been working a VERY challenging ab/core workout. In essence, I dread a good cough for its crippling effects! I'd forgotten what it felt like to have to use un-trained muscles. To work the unfamiliar and to succeed. Its important to be reminded what it means to overcome an obstacle, to face and attack a challenge.

I'm trying to count the positives of recovering from this injury, while await the next piece of news tomorrow. I'm back to working the diet and evaluating the muscles that running doesn't engage. In short, I hope this will make me stronger, better, faster. I'm still on the road, just using a different vehicle these days!