Marathon Woman is Human

This week I had to face the fact that I am not invincible. I thought my only problem was speed but this week I had the challenge of a sprained ankle (from a fall at tennis due to forgetting to wear tennis shoes). After a visit to my sports medicine physician I accepted her recommendation that I not run for one week and do various types of rehab therapy. So like I told Coach John, after waiting 25 years to start working on racing again, I guess I can wait one more week. But the amazing thing is that I found that I could swim. Ive tried many times in the past but never was able to coordinate my head in the water with breathing. This week I just did it and it felt like I knew how to swim. So Ill work on that and next year will plan to do the Danskin Triathlon. I also biked 2 hours with Joan today, so even though Im not running Im certainly not slacking.