00kate » injury http://00kate.com Ramblings of a Running-Obsessed Undergrad Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:23:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 OUCH http://00kate.com/2009/12/12/ouch/ http://00kate.com/2009/12/12/ouch/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:49:12 +0000 Kate McDowell http://00kate.com/2009/12/12/ouch/ This morning I headed out for my 2nd 14-miler. I had been having some pain in my inner thigh for a day or two, but it seemed to have subsided. I planned out a 4 mile loop to give things a try – after 4 miles things seemed fine. No pain. So I headed down to Riverview Park to get in 8 miles by the river and then finish things up with 2 miles coming back home, but then…

Mile 6. Stopped to take a GU. Mmm, chocolatey. I start running again and all is not well in inner-thigh-ville. I think, maybe I just need to re-warm up. Mile 6.5 I am by the side of the road, crying, and calling a cab.

:\ I can’t really walk that well right now so I’m in bed waiting for my dad to get here from MD and take me to the hospital.

I hope this won’t lay me up for long… I would hate to not be able to complete my marathon training. That said, I want to heal this the right way. If taking a few weeks off and maybe missing out on the National Marathon is what I need to do to get better, so be it. There will be other marathons; I’m still young.

But I would be crushed. :(

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