2004 - What have you got planned

[Liz]

I mentioned before that I had tendonitis in my ankle - and I had to stop running per the physical therapist's advice for 6 weeks after the Richmond marathon. It's now more or less healed and I was permitted to try running a whole mile on the 29th Dec, with 2 miles the day after and up to the heady heights of 3 miles on New Year's Eve. I was advised to stay at 3 miles running for a while (not sure how long) so I did a 5 mile jaunt on the Saturday which contained about 2 miles of walking.

This week, I've run twice so far - and am planning a 5 or 6 miler on Saturday. It occurs to me that it's only 14 weeks to the marathon, which would entail a fairly rapid increase of miles - although I could cut out the 20 miler so that the increase isn't so bad and just run London slowly for fun. Is it insane to think of building up from such a small number of miles to a marathon so quickly?

My problem is that I really want to do it, so it's hard to think logically. Plus I don't believe that I can defer my entry again. I say my ankle is more or less healed - it doesn't hurt when I run nor afterwards, just a little ache sometimes, - but it doesn't feel the same as the other ankle. I'm concerned that if I go crazy I'll just get re-injured.

Any thoughts?