Hope To Run Again Before End Of The Year

Scott, for what little it's worth given my newbieness, I'm guessing based on all that swimming you did over the summer that your cardiovascular fitness is through the roof. So you have the ability to run around 7:30 for 6-10 miles, even while adding to the weekly total. But after a month and a half (I think?) the muscle tone in your legs is probably not yet back to what it was before the injury. So based on (very painful!) recent personal experience of screwing this up, I wonder if you might not try backing off slightly? Most likely I'm full of beans, but all I can tell you is that it's really helped me to add miles without further injury, and I'm just now getting to the point where 3 fast miles 2 or 3 times a week doesn't interefere at all with further training.

The same thoughts have been cruising around my brain as well. But when you read it from someone else it seems to carry more weight. A lot of it just has to do with being excited about running again. Ran a race last week and did better than I could have ever expected time wise. Now I just want to do more and improve more. I am going to concentrate on running easier paces and not over doing the miles for awhile. Thanks for the help.