Day 317: Wed June 25th - Joy, Pain & Ice Buckets

Day Three Hundred and sixteen - Joy, Pain 
& Ice Buckets

Joy and  Pain. I experience these two .... all too often simultaneously lately while running.  Though some mornings the joy triumphs over the pain of my heel and lately my overcompensating other knee (grrrrr), while other mornings the muttered curses from my lips crush my attempted joy in the moment as I limp run my route wondering what in the hell I am doing and my mantra becomes "this is ridiculous" negative talk.
This morning, I am happy to report that after the past 5 days of more than usual cursing and pain while running, joy came out the far leader.
Sure, I still limped a little, but the flow of my feet took me over the dirt and roads. The warm morning air smoothing the lines of frustration on my face.
I felt happy and not so hurty to be out running.
Maybe ice buckets do help more than my wimpy ice packs. Just maybe he was right.
Justin made me force my foot and heel in a real bucket of very cold-full-of-ice-this-stings-so-bad-my-foot-is-going-to-fall-off-i'm-never-doing-this-again!!! water.
Maybe repeating this is helping.  I must admit that it seems to have.
Tonight... round two. 

Day 303: Wed June 11th - Never! I say... NEVER!

Day Three Hundred and Three - Never! I say... NEVER!

Damn heel......swollen & OUCH!!

Day 225: Tues March 25th - Heel Schmeel

Day 225 - Heel Schmeel

I love these mountains... so majestic and beautiful.

It just figures that after a great long run yesterday, I wake up this morning with my right heel very achy. *sigh*
So  - it was slow and steady once again and rather short....ish.  Jax also seemed to want to take it easy.
On a good note, today is supposed to be the warmest day yet this year, 72 degrees. However, it will be short lived, tomorrow a cold front with valley rain and mountain snow will settle into the area for a few days, cooling it right back down. I enjoy the up and down springlike temperatures. I love rain and can't wait to hear a good thunderstorm!