Purlewe Knits

This is a harbinger of bad stuff to come, at least this is what I’m convinced of. Our clock stopped in June too. (that’s when I miscarried)

So what’s happened so far?

My ankle is trashed. Yep, just when I start running again. I’m 11 workouts into the Couch to 5K running program again. I was really enjoying myself this time, figures. I don’t know the definition of trashed yet. I suspect some sort of Achilles injury. It has just been irritating for the last few weeks, but yesterday it went all wrong. Nothing specifically happened. The evening before I did a fairly hard bike ride and I ran the next morning. Apparently that is my cocktail for disaster (along with the clock stopping anyway). It is swollen, hurts to walk, almost impossible to walk down stairs, and has random sharp shooting pains.

I am really hoping this doesn’t mean we have to cancel our vacation. This year we are planning a bike trip across Missouri. Or at least mostly across it, we are going to ride the Katy Trail. With the girls in tow. I want to think that biking will be good for my ankle, it could be. I can’t walk, but I can still bike right? There would be some irony in that, somewhere.

One of my chickens died too. Our back yard was obviously a bird hell that day. We had a large tree removed to make way for our new chicken coop (again irony) and fruit trees. It was a crazy hot day and the chickens had to be locked up in their run. Ori (short for Oriental Chicken) apparently was too scared to come out of the coop (falling branches and all) and got too hot. I buried her in a Baker’s bag.

Here’s some pictures of the tree and it’s hole. Our yard really looked like a war zone for a few days. One of Ori too. How odd that I took a picture of her the day she died!

tree (click for full view)

workers and stump

no tree

Ori (she was the black and white one)

The tree guys are back this afternoon. Hopefully to finish this time. We are ready to move forward with our backyard plans. Hopefully my two remaining chickens will survive this visit. Hopefully the girls sleep through this visit. Of course the tree guys show up on the day Little Miss one and two decide to nap.

Just back from run 7 of my second start of the Couch to 5K program. I made it through run 16 back in May, then the whole pregnancy/asthma/miscarriage thing reared its ugly head and I quit. Feeling good this time, although I did last time too.

The completion of this Couch to 5K will happen the day we leave for our 225 mile bike ride. Good timing if I stay on course. I don’t want to run after spending all day on a bike. I also don’t think we’ll have room to pack my running shoes.

We are planning on biking tonight. That was the plan all weekend though, so I can’t say I’m overly optimistic. Saturday was taken out by part of Friday’s disaster; we had to spend the morning getting the bike trailer back up. Sunday it rained most of the day (I did get my run in though). Yesterday is was raining again. No rain in the forecast today. I hope we can make it work. I’m interested in seeing how my body responds to running, biking, and two showers in the same day.