reminder to self about listening to one's body
The 3/4 marathon is in six days. A week ago, during a 17 mile training run, I did something untoward to a portion of a calf muscle. It wasn't clear until Tuesday that it was an injury rather than just soreness. Lots of rest, self-massage, walking carefully rather than rushing. Now it feels much better, but the likelihood of re-injury this soon is very high. I should not throw my poor body to the wolves and try to run for hours on Sunday. In fact, in my imagination, my body is saying the opposite thing: "We got away from those wolves last week. This time, it's your responsibility to avoid them to begin with, rather than having to run away." There are other races as part of a set - I'd like to participate, so maybe I could switch to the 5K.