Today was a good day

So firstly - and most importantly - I can walk again!!  Ooooh, I'm such a drama queen!

No more limping, no more crunchy granola sounds in my foot.  Yippee!  What did I do, you ask?  Well....have I mentioned I've been training for a half marathon at the end of May?  Hmm.  Can't remember what I have or have not mentioned, so I'll just tell you again... I did one last year - actually managed to finish one - but I was ssoooooo slow, so although an accomplishment, I thought maybe I could do a little better.

Okay, that reasoning is weak.  I don't know why I signed up again.  I swore at the end of the race last year that I'd never do it again, but man, I just can't seem to remember to never say never!  Whatever the reasoning, I joined up for the Running Room half marathon course and I've been following the training schedule religiously.  (Religiously... as if.... but I'm doing much better at following it than last year)

Over Easter, I travelled to Seattle to hang with my girlfriend and I managed to get my long run in: 16km.  Despite a few aches and pains in the beginning, my body worked it all out and most of the run went pretty well.  I actually felt pretty good at the end.  I even felt good for a while right afterwards, but a few hours later my foot hurt so bad I had trouble walking.  While alcohol did help, by Sunday I was pretty lame.  I was instructed to 'suck it up' because my pathetic grumbling was driving my friend crazy, but my pain tolerance has obviously dissipated, because the grumbling continued, albeit I did try to keep it non-verbal.

But a trip to the physio validated my grumbling - there was nothing wrong with my foot, I apparently had sprained my ankle.  Running.  I sprained my ankle running.  And I didn't even know it.

I'm a tool.

Today - a week and a half later - I'm finally not limping.  So today is a good day.

I also had a fairly good day at work.  The first few weeks were definitely the honeymoon period for me which evaporated slightly at the end of last week with my first 'I feel stupid' day.  Since then, I've been doing the 'new girl rollercoaster' which goes from the 'I feel stupid' moments to the 'oh, I get it!' moments and back to the 'I feel stupid' feelings.  Earlier this week the swings felt almost hourly, but today I finally figured something out and I realised that I'm not really stupid.  I mean, I know I'm not stupid, but I finally felt like I wasn't stupid.

So a good day.

Hmmm, what else?  Nothing much today.  That's enough to make me happy and sleep well tonight, so I'm good with that.

Here's hoping your day was like mine!