The last week has been sort of a break week. Nothing intentional (until yesterday) just having a hard time fitting running into my schedule. Making sure I have time for running has always been a challenge. Some weeks it goes great and I find myself running every day. Others are completely the opposite. Last week was one of those. The frustrating thing to me is that these unintentional breaks always seem to happen on the heals of being successful with my running. I’ll feel like I am really getting it together and BAM along comes a week where I can’t get it together. So that was what last week was.

Now this week is a different story, though same results. Saturday I managed to literally face-plant on our deck. Oddly my wife just did as well the day before in pretty much the same spot. She hit her head on a support beam holding up the porch, I landed on my nose (I actually think I had the softer landing!) I was positive I broke my nose, but it didn’t even bleed so I must be ok. It is still sore though. I also managed to roll my ankle doing this and hit both knees, the right one pretty hard.

I woke up Sunday pretty sore, but I really wanted to run and do something about my lack of running last week. So thought I would try out the knees and ankle (I can deal with the nose) and see what happened. It all felt pretty good, so I foolishly decided my short run would become longer. I felt fine until I was near the end of my run in the canyon. I think it was the uneven terrain and my ankle started to bother me a bit. I made it home fine, but as the day progressed I became increasingly sore. The next morning there was no question, I was going to take a break to recover and let me injuries heal.

So this morning after the break I am feeling much better. My ankle is a little sore still, but the knee feels fine. I am still not going to run today as I am back on the difficult schedule. I am sure the extra day’s break will do me a world of good.