Best Laid Plans

The best-laid plans of mice and men, dear readers, often go astray: I wanted to share Charlie’s birthday with you today, but I’d totally forgotten that I had a work event last night and so wasn’t able to prepare everything in time. We’ll have to do it next week sometime since those evenings are a bit less crazy!

I’d say we could make the pies this weekend, but I’m going up to Philadelphia to visit Hannah, one of my best friends, and to cheer at the finish of a 10k that I registered to run. If you watched my vlog, you know that my two big running goals for the year are a spring 10 miler and a half-marathon in the fall. I’m signed up for the Cherry Pit 10 Miler on April 16, and I decided to combine seeing Hannah with the Get Your Rear in Gear 10k this Sunday as part of my training. But I hurt my foot a few weeks ago and finally saw my orthopedist about it on Tuesday, who confirmed that I am healing from a stress fracture in my fifth metatarsal. I haven’t run in three weeks and I’m not allowed to run for another three, when I have a follow-up with the doctor, so I’ll definitely miss the 10k and there’s no way I’ll be physically ready to run the 10 miler two weeks later after almost 2 months of non-activity. (For the record, I wasn’t proactive about the pain sooner because I didn’t think I was hardcore enough to actually injure myself but, as Megan said and the doctor repeated, this is a really easy thing to do – there’s nothing athletic about breaking your foot!)

On the bright side, not running hasn’t derailed my efforts to be healthier, and in the last two weeks I’ve lost the three pounds that I’d put back on in February by sticking with My Fitness Pal. There’s nothing that says I won’t be able to run a 10 miler in the late spring or early summer – anyone know of any in the DC area? - and the Diva Half, on September 14, is still ages away. So that's all good news!  And thank you all so much for your lovely comments on yesterday's post.  It's comforting to know that we're not alone as we clear these hurdles!

Also, though this is a total non-sequitur, the religious historian in me loved following along with the selection of the new pope.  My understanding of the workings of the Catholic Church really end with the 16th century, but it was still cool to see everything in action in a contemporary context!  That being said, I was kind of hoping for bubbles in Charlie's honor...

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