Ouch!

Turns out, you shouldn't jump right into a heavy-mileage training plan after you don't run for three months.  Who'd have thought?

[Pause for laughter as "real" runners take a glance down below at the weekly mileage I was doing.]

I've developed some pretty awesome shin splints, only on my right leg interestingly enough, which I didn't know was possible.  I was supposed to have a three mile run today, but I was in pretty awesome pain after just a half mile walk with the dog, so I nixed it.  Something tells me an 11-miler tomorrow would be a bad idea.

It's hard to do, but I think I am going to have to start over with a lower mileage plan, like one for real beginners even though I've run five half marathons already.  Munich in October is my target race, and I don't want to injure myself training for a race I'm running just for the heck of it.

Not one to end on a negative note, I am also including a photo of my first pair of knitted mittens!  Just missing one thumb!

If you are a right thumb amputee, these are finished!