Day 11...Resolve!

My swelling is down and my spirits are high this morning. 

I am icing, taking anti-inflamatories and staying off my leg as much as I can. 

After talking with Dr. Dave extensively last night and Dr. Troy this morning (thanks again, John T.), the current plan, no matter what the specialist tells me today, is to continue on tomorrow. 

I will start slow, jog a bit, walk a bit and see what my body will allow me to get away with.  There is no reason, with me being 15% into this that I cannot recover and move along.  If this was a baseball game, we are only in the top of the 2nd inning...lots of game left to change.  

7:30 miles are probably not in my near future, but if I can average 5 MPH, I can do 50 miles in 10-11 hours.  I can do this with a run/walk/shuffle.

I will use today to recover a bit, realign some of the stuff in the support vehicle and approach to the run that have been nagging me a bit, but not enough to fix every night.  One of thes things is to figure out how to get more calories in.  Pants that I started in are hanging loosely! 

As I close, thank you for the out pouring of get well wishes, prayer and support.  I will prevail.  Period.

AT Moore of Alone and Unafraid sent me this poem a while back.  I like it....especially the last paragraph....I think it applies here.

Invictus


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.    (Okay, maybe it is just my leg!)

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


No more updates today.  Tomorrow, I am going to get an early start and march on!