Ouch!

My knee hurts.

It's swollen...

It hurts to bend...

It hurts to straighten...

Forget twisting it.

The PA says its the MCL and the Patellar Ligament and I should stay off it.

I laugh and say "how?"

I DID IT!!!

I ran my first 1/2 marathon this past Sunday!!!

I had decided I wanted to run my first one (yes, I said FIRST one) before I turned 40 (yes, I said 40!) The only race that would give me enough time to train, be in Atlanta and be before the big day was the ING 1/2 this past Sunday. I told my friend Christine "we ought to do that together" never expecting that she would call me a couple days later and tell me that she had signed up!! HOLY MOLY!! So I sign up, I start training and then I hurt my knee.....and Christine had a small problem of 5 broken ribs. Did we let that stop us? Heck no!!!

Decked out in Hello Kitty shirts, red streaks in our hair, white and red striped socks and black nails; we did it! Not only did we do it; we did even better than we thought we would do by over an hour!! We have now officially done something that only 1% of the population has done!! How 'bout that?!!? Proud? Hell yes!!!

13.1 miles? Been there, run that!!!