Hard Time

Mileage is starting to mount even under the relatively lenient Hal Higdon novice marathoner training schedule. Did 12 slow painful miles on Saturday. Body not healed from bike crash plus hotter more humid morning then originally forecast. Biggest problem is jammed left toe which is bruised, sore, and swollen. Each step brought it bumping again in the front of the shoe. All 12 miles felt like the last 5 of a marathon. Marathon grade pain for the full 2 hours it took me to lumber past about a mile past the main campus on Loyola and home again.