Running > Me

Well...I have to update on my running. I was loving it. I really did. I still do. Even this past Saturday, I tried to run in the 20 something temperatures, but I couldn't handle the cold and the wind. I had no intentions of stopping. I had worked through the soreness pretty quickly...or so I thought. The problem is that I did too much too fast, and I'm paying for it. I knew the impact really bothered my knees on like the 5th day in a row, so I took a break the next day and went again the day after. That day I ran a full two miles up and down some of the biggest hills in our neighborhood, and I felt really good. I felt really good until I've tried to walk like a normal person up and down my stairs since then. O MY GOD. I thought, "Oh...well, I just need to chill." In rehearsal tonight, standing in one place in heels for so long was enough to make it throb. I tend to put my weight on my right leg, which unfortunately, is the one I've done something to. Carrying Jaggar up the stairs tonight was almost more than I could bear. I read the couch to 5K, and I did exactly what it said NOT to do. And I was a perfect example of literally going from the couch to trying to look like the girls in the Nike ad in a week. I thought I was going to be awesome in 5 days, and now I suck. SO....with that said, the saying, "You gotta crawl before you walk," seems to be me now. Literally. So my efforts to get in shape are taking a huge step backwards because now I can't even run up and down the stairs effortlessly like I would normally do all day. I should've stuck with my initial instinct that exercise never leads to good. So I will no longer be a 15 on a 1-10 scale...at least not until my knee heals (which I'm praying to God at this painful moment that that is VERY soon) as well as my fear of doing it again.