The plan was that if Gage woke up early enough, we were going to go and meet my running group at the lake at 7:30a for a little walk/run. I knew we would be on our own since everyone is way ahead of the walk/run, but I just wanted to see their faces and get back into the habit of heading up there on Saturdays. Everything was going well, I got dressed, packed a few things in the car and we headed up there. He was a little fussy on the 10 minute drive, but not too bad, and then when we got there I felt bad that I didn't bring him a hat. I know it's always a little chillier and windier on the water, but it felt several degrees colder and the wind was really strong. Next time I'll pack one just in case. I put him in the stroller and realized that the hood came down really far, so he was pretty insulated in there - I thought that it might be ok. I did have a blanket, thankfully, so I wrapped him up and we said hi to a few people that were already there. We actually got there a little early and I didn't want to wait much longer for the entire group to show up, so we decided to just get going. We took off and very early on I realized I would need to stop for a potty break (ugh, seriously?), so we hit our first portapotty about a 1/2 mile in. Luckily there was a handicapped version at that stop, so the entire stroller fit in there with me and I didn't have to figure out how to watch him and potty at the same time. So obstacle #1, done. We got on our way and I realized that obstacle #2 would not be as easy to overcome: pushing that 20 lb kid in the stroller was kicking my ASS. I was really struggling to run during the running intervals, I just couldn't get into a rhythm and it was really uncomfortable. I just kept telling myself that it would get easier the more that I did it - but it was TOUGH. We turned around to start heading back and Gage started to get a little fussy - it started out with just a little whining and if I talked to him he would settle back down, but I could tell that we were on borrowed time. I had also started to notice obstacle #3: there was some pretty real pan in my right achilles. At this point I was not keeping up with my scheduled intervals, but I was trying to run as much as I could between nursing my ankle and keeping Gage happy. Finally he really started to cry, so I pulled us off of the road and got him out of the stroller for a minute to let him look around. He settled down, so I put him back in and off we went. Less than 5 minutes later he started up again, so we pulled into a water stop and I got him out again. About that time we ran into my running group and we were both happy for the distraction. He got to meet all of the ladies and he was giving them lots of smiles and sweet faces. At this point we were about a 1/2 mile from the car and I was starting to think I was going to have to carry him and push the stroller back. We talked to the ladies for a minute and then we started walking. It took about 1 minute for me to realize that we were going to have trouble so I figured I'd put him back in the stroller and run it back as much as I could and if he had to cry, that was it. Well he didn't make a peep the rest of the way, thank goodness. By the time we got back to the car though, I knew for sure that my ankle was really hurt. I'm not sure what I did, but it's pretty acute pain - felt like a bruise. We got in the car and made it home without any more meltdowns. We were out there about 45 minutes total.
So the bad news is, my right achilles is really hurt. It's gotten worse as the day has gone on and as I get anytime I get a little injured, I am REALLY upset about it. I put some ice on it earlier, but I'm pretty sure that unless I take it easy, this will only hurt more. It's just so discouraging since I'm just back into a regular running routine. I was expecting my knee to give me trouble, but oh no...something totally different. I'll have to see how it feels in the morning, but the good news is I wasn't going to run tomorrow anyway, so we'll see what's up early next week. So frustrating.
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