It’s been a long two weeks of resting the right foot, icing it a few times a day, and dropping Ibuprofen like some sort of junkie (although in the last week, I upgraded with a prescription from the doc for a better NSAID with a side-effects and hazards list three pages long - rock on).

However, I think I am just about ready to get out on the road to run again.  I’m walking without pain now, with only minor stiffness in the morning (ba-dum-dum).

As a reward for not doing anything too stupid while injured (yet), I ordered the Garmin Forerunner 50 Bundle from Costco, as they currently have a $50 instant rebate. For $80 and change, you get the Forerunner 50 watch, heart rate monitor, and inertial foot pod for measuring distance/pace/cadence/etc. Seemed like a good deal to me, and until their GPS versions shrink and improve (not just one or the other), it’s about all I was willing to spend.

So, with any luck, on Tuesday I will begin training anew for the marathon, with my eye still on the Anchorage Mayor’s Marathon, although I checked out the cost of hotel rooms in Anchorage and nearly died from sticker shock. Ah well, plenty of time to start saving up!