Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
Saturday morning I planned to return to running. Unfortunately first one, then both legs started hurting before I had even reached 3 miles, so I geared down, and did the prudent thing and walked home. Clearly I will have to take my time in returning to longer runs. I guess running for 6 miles on a sore leg did more harm than I expected, not anything major, because I walk and run short distances with no problems.
But I compensated with some walking. Sunday I took Spotty to the dog park and walked nearly 2 miles at a brisk pace, with lots of up and down hills. Today I got up and walked my 2.5 mile Mesa walk. If that's all I can do for now then so be it.
I do have a suspicion that the new shoes I bought may have been the problem (which will teach me an important lesson about running in discount shoes). I will test that theory tomorrow with a run in my older shoes (they were only starting to hurt my feet when I ran really long distances). If my legs can handle it than I will know better. If the legs act up regardless than I will have to figure something else out.
I did realize last week that I am not officially signed up for the race on the 1st of October, so I will just forgo it this year. Take a break from racing for the year, and just focus on running for fitness.
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