5:30 wake-up. We painted trim of our closet in our room and the paint was off gasing all night. Sore throat. Strange how it wasn’t that bad the previous night when the painting actually happened. Anyways. Sore throat. And upset stomach.

Decent sleep tho.

I couldn’t make it down the stairs. Unfortunately. And now I’ve got strains on back of both legs. However many hours later.

Looks to be muscle guarding. So. My body is still in full recovery mode. I guess I did way more activity. And eventually it said. Ok. That’s enough. You need to let yourself recover. Fair.

But here we are. I’ve got this week, next week. And the week after. Till I’m supposed to run the half.

I can’t even walk.

I can barely stand.

I think all it is. Is patience tho. I’ll get back to walking. Jogging. Running sprinting jumping. Buttttt.

I have to wait. I have to be patient.

At time today and yesterday. And day prior. It’s been pretty brutal for a week now, I’ve had thoughts of. Will it be like this forever? Did I do something terrible and irreversible somehow? Normally you feel it coming. The knees. The sore muscles. But not for everything to just shut down altogether.

Silver lining is that my knees are getting fully healed. Which is a bonus for sure. Could’ve been more of an issue had I kept running on my knees. Not letting those heal. The calves are just like. You can’t go anywhere. Not really given the option to run on them not 100%. I can barely freaking walk.

11:59 —- good news! My legs are now just throbbing. Super sore. My body just doing its thing. Had a hot bath. Gets the blood pumping in my feet.

2:33 — Wow, my body so sore. Not sure if it’s sick from the fumes. Or if this is that sick from muscle repair. I took an Advil. Whole body was getting super sore.

Spent some time with my feet elevated. A little meditation time.

3:25 — i made it downstairs for another peanut butter sandwich. No problems. Just sore. no grabs! It’s like. Fingers crossed this morning was the last one. Ugh. Seized up like tin man. Repair repair repair.

Body is working hard. Felt it all over. Sooo drained mid day till about 2pm. Just exhausted.

4:48 — walked downstairs, not even much strain or tightness. Thought I was doing great, I’m cured!. Then a little tightness a little cramp. I put my toes on a stair edge and takes a few minutes. Inside and out. To get it to calm down. I was able to walk to the garage. Do a little build with thatcher. Then we grabbed bikes for the front. I walked no problem. Stretched out on the curb. Then came and sat down. And here we are.

I doooo feel like we’ve made a lot of progress or that we’re getting closer. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. I am hoping I’ll be able to walk without cramping up.

5:15 — I am feeling confident again that I’ll be able to walk and run.

And the classic experience. You take walking and running for granted when you’ve been able to walk and run without much injury for years and years. Nothing like this which took out both calves at the same time. Literally walking peg legs. Because my legs were so seized up. That park experience was insane.

Part of what’s going on. I think my calves are for sure larger. Looks like they’ve exploded. Quads not as much. Could def use more work on the quads. Hence somehow we need to build that into the routine without regressing.

The trouble with feeling rotten. Feeling drained. Literally no energy I guess as my body repaired itself. The brain can’t think in this state.

It feels like I want an environment change tho. Standing desk option. Current is not conducive to help my situation. I wonder if I could simply jack up the current table that I’ve got.

9:08 —- “are you going to go for a run tomorrow?”

Ugh. Highly doubt that. It’s impressive I guess that Lauren doesn’t know the extent of my ailments. Because. If I played it up then she’d just dog on me for this decision. To run this race. Being so selfish. At least I was able to fly under the radar and not put extra burden on Lauren. I’m not getting my runs in. Nope. I’m barely able to walk. But at least I’m tidying up toys. The kitchen. Bikes in the front yard. Getting kids to bed.

Felt like today, despite being so intensely exhausted. And the massive freeze first thing in the morning. Overall. The rest of the day. And this evening. I was moving. It grabbed a touch heading to garage just a few mins ago but a toe raise on something calf stretch. Seems to be fine now. Instead of the runaway cramps.

I can imagine a world where tomorrow. Maybe I’ll be sore. Maybe I’ll strain something again. Maybe it’ll be crampy. But I think overall we’re trending to a full recovery. Maybe tomorrow maybe Thursday. Hopefully for sure we can be moving by Friday. And the weekend were able to move. Kick into some short runs and build back up. Seems like half of what I’ll do is actually leg workouts. To continue to reinforce my calves. My quads. My hamstrings.