Awesome! Glad to see this!
A couple of questions…
I mentioned PT for you. Anything with that yet?
And second question, how is November 3rd looking for you? Do you want to reschedule, or is it too soon for you to know?
Glad to see you are back with it!
I can’t believe you allowed all that. You’ve softened, @Eric. I wogged and jalked, and you’re okay with that. 
Okay. Back to reality. PT—no, nothing yet. I honestly am a little ahead of schedule here, so I’m not even sure when I see my doc for follow up. I’ll check tonight, and if it’s not really soon, I’ll patient portal him.
I thought November 3rd was out of the question, but today left me reconsidering. I definitely would use it as a chill just running my long distance run for the week kind of thing, but I could at least do that. Is that absurd thinking? If you’re just asking how I feel about it, I’d love to participate but am not sure it would be an impressive performance. I don’t know if I’m making sense.
Very, very happy. 
You can certainly get 13 miles. And your time might be fine.
But you will definitely not be peaking on that date from a performance standpoint. Your surgery was just not timed right for you to be at peak fitness.
So IF you go after it with the right mindset, and IF your doctor says you are okay to do it, and IF you want to, you can run it as a training run.
So those three “ifs” are between you and your doctor.
If you were to pick up right now from where you were, you might expect to lose about 5-6 minutes in the half from where you might be without surgery.
Coming back with thoughts on all of that, @Eric… which basically are going to be a long and drawn out way of saying g I would like to run nov. 3 and then pick something, because I haven’t yet, within about 6 weeks of that. And then follow some pacing instructions. See if that doesn’t do me better than just going with the wind, last half’s strategy. Against someone’s advice. 
Oct 10 outdoor 3.5 run/2.5 walk
No Zb
BG 147 leaving house so having banana and leaving basal on
Starting bg: 155
Mi 1: 135
Mi 2: 113
Mi 3.5: 100
Finished jog
Walked 2 miles
Belly felt great. That was the best part. My husband surprised me at the door, as I was passing through it, by being ready in running shoes to join me on my run.
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The great news is we haven’t BOTH been running and training all this time, so even though he’s always enjoyed running just a couple of strides in front, today, he was eating my dust. And that was only up to about a mile and a half, where after making sure he was going to be okay, I said goodbye and moved on up the trail. Anyway. The run was beautiful, and my body was happy. 
How much can you do next week? 3 miles was okay today? Maybe a few 5’s next week sound okay without any stomach pain?
I think 5s are okay. It’s pretty slow stuff, but I feel good. Today was between a 9:30-10:30 min pace. But I’m increasing the distance at that pace. I’m afraid to speed up because of the foot strike. Slower is gentler. I think. But everything feels good.
What is your concern there, your nail? Or the surgery?
Have you tried the tape yet?
The surgery. The surgeon kind of mentioned the… that. The bouncing. So going slowly reduces it, but it all feels fine. I think this means I’m doing fine with what I’m doing…
Did that answer your question? 
Yes.
It also sounds like another week of not doing too much would probably be the best thing for you. Otherwise you might slow your recovery.
I should expand on this a little bit.
Your body has a natural tendency to avoid pain. And everything in your kinetic chain is connected. If you have soreness or pain in one area, you will alter your normal stride or gate or make some small adjustment to reduce that pain. That is a completely natural response. And you don’t even know you are doing it.
A common thing you see with runners is that they have one injury, and months later they have a completely different one, and it was the result of something from the prior pain that caused them to make a slight change. And it was something they were not even doing consciously.
So my concern is that if you are running in a certain way to alleviate one pain, you can end up hurting something else.
Does all of that make sense?
For that reason, I’d suggest easing back into everything very cautiously until you are pain free. Just nice and slow.
The main thing is to get your heart rate up. How does going slow but on incline feel?
Not doing too much… as in kind of doing what I’m doing? So far so (pretty) good. I was planning on a couple light miles again today, but I do mean light.
Yes, perfect sense. Story of my life.
Probably fine? I’m running hills outside, and I don’t notice anything different on them?
Bears ?
Okay, but only do very easy stuff.
Before you get back to full speed, everything else should feel normal. Core work like sit-ups, push-ups, front planks, side planks. General movement like bending over forward and backward and to the sides, reaching up to the top shelf, things like that. Just normal motions and extension should feel okay with no pain.
If you are scrunching up a certain way because it feels tender or sore, that’s an indication you are going to alter your stride, and that’s what I am worried about. So just take it easy please.
Seriously? Is that a little dig on my grammar?? Too bad that was exactly what I was trying to say… that I hadn’t noticed anything different, like bears, on the hills. But I’ll take this opportunity auto report on the fact I didn’t see anything different in pain… Didn’t feel anything… 
Ummmm…
No. I was just thinking there probably are not Bears inside but might be Bears outside?
I’ll have to look for them on the next hill.
Okay, but seriously. We do have bears in our park there… and now I’ll be nervous about them. 
Taking it easy. Things feel okay for the most part. My belly button, if you must know, has taken a hit. So that’s not normal feeling. But it’s no more weird feeling on my run than it is when I’m walking around doing stuff, so 
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Oct 11 friday
Outdoor 4 miles
No zb
Banana at start
Afrezza an hour and a half prior!
Cutting off basal at start
Starting bg 86
Mi 1 108
Mi 2 107
Mi 3 110
Mi 4 87
Switched to walking
Mi 5 87
Mi 6 67
Mi 6.5 82 done
Felt really good. Slow, but not terribly slow. Much was at 9:30 min a mile, and I got up to about 8:45 for pieces… but not intentionally.
Realized today that pace yourself has to be my least favorite advice in the whole entire world. I know why, and I know I’m grown enough to learn how to do it.