After last week’s lethargic effort, an improvement in my mileage this week. At almost 20, I’m finally close to where I needed to have been back on January 17th when I started the 1000 mile goal. It may seem like I’m too far behind pace to reach that goal, but I’m not. With 40 weeks to go in 2010, I’ll have to bump the generic weekly goal up to 23 or so. In other good news, I scored two new pair of kicks at the New Balance, at 25% off the outlet price. Those should carry me through the rest of the year.
The major, major bummer of the day is the critter seems to have developed an injury of some sort. She wouldn’t let me finish our 5 today, stopping on the homestretch. I thought I was going to have to carry her the rest of the way home – she didn’t even want to walk after stopping to rest. Tonight she’s moving with a considerable rear-leg gimp, having trouble walking and getting in and out of the car. I’m hoping things will be better in the morning but if not we’ll have to go see the vet. Either way it’s a sobering reminder of her age and mortality. It’s also making me rethink my whole “make her run the whole damn thing” plan for Ragnar.
| MILEAGE UPDATE: March 15-21 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles to date | Past week | Three week average | Annual pace | Miles to go |
| 86.7 | 19.2 | 12.0 | 395.6 | 913.3 |
Oh puppy! How’s she feel today? Don’t count her out – she trained for most of SF with you this time last year!
She was still pretty gimpy this morning. I think I may have to invest in something like this for her.