This morning has not started so great. It started with me waking up half an hour before I needed to, after having a bad dream where one of the past BYU running girls wasn't impressed with me running one good race since college (Painter's 1/2). Well, so that dream stunk, to get taunted for my running mediocrity in my own head. When I woke up I thought I heard a child breathing difficultly, but checked the three munchkins and they were all fine. My run felt sluggish at best, but for the first two miles my right ankle felt sore and unstable, I stretched at 1 mile as usual, then stretched at the 2 mile mark because it still felt achy. I started running on the wrong side of the road (with traffic) and that helped. I turned around at about 2.2, thinking I could try to run again this afternoon, but then my leg felt better, though I still felt generally tired. My leg felt achy again the last mile of the run so I stopped running right at 7 miles and walked the .3 or so mile to my car. I stretched some more when I got home and now am wearing ice around my ankle. Dang! I should have never woken up this morning (except I guess then my dream would still be going with me berating myself?!?). And to top it off, my weight is still 127. I guess eating chocolate cake is not a good diet tip. I made chocolate cake for my cat's birthday cake. Fluffy has been in our family for one year now. Evening- ran one mile with Benji while Mickie played soccor, so the run was on the grass. I felt some pain in my right ankle but not much. 11:21 mile for him, 57 seconds off. We were in Salem so the air is thicker, but that wouldn't have helped us more than 10 seconds. I am proud of him~! | 