Just an update to my running.  Early May, well May 4th, I had what I thought was a decent run.  However, the "day after syndrome" smacked me in the face-- or should I say Achilles?  After running 2 miles in 27 minutes (yeah, right?) I could barely walk the next day.  It seems there is no rhyme or reason to when the pain hits.  I cycled 25 miles the next day and things seemed to loosen up a bit.  I took the next three days off.  Then I started up again.  I ran in my sexy, pink Treksport Fivefingers.  I ran two days that week: a 2-miler and a 2.75-miler.  The next week, I ran 3 times, my 3rd run increased to 3 miles.  My next day syndrome hasn't really been a major issue since.  I'm not saying that I am good-to-go-no-pain.  If anything I am running slower (hence no pace time) but I can get in a little more mileage.  Just thought I'd share that. Oh and one more thing.  I am not great at being a consistent strength trainer; however, I have recommenced the free weights- quads and hamstrings and arms.  I've also included glut exercises.  Found these on naturalrunningcenter.com if you aren't familiar with that site.

I have 2 weeks from yesterday until surgery.  My hope is to continue to hang on, not gain much more weight, and running the "last" Kayla 5K (on the road a week from today) since I have run every Kayla 5K since inception-  about 1/2 pushing a babyjogger of up to 100+ pounds, I think was my last calculation.  That was before finally giving it up about 3 years ago.