I’m not sure my other hiatuses from extracurricular activities were 9 months, but they’re typically long.

So what was the reason? At first, I’m tempted to blame injury. I hurt my foot in the Napa Valley Marathon and subsequently took a solid month and a half off from any kind of endurance sports. The injury was the kind of repetitive use injury that I am susceptible to, foolishly over training as I do. My guess is, given how long it took to heal, it may have been a stress fracture. Anyway, my 9 month fallout with endurance training wasn’t directly due to this injury. After all, 8 weeks after the NVM I was better and participating in “The Relay” just fine (That was a fun event and I’m hoping to organize a team to do it again this year). Ultimately, the reason I fell out of endurance training was rock climbing. I’ve been climbing 3-5 times a week since May and it just did not mix well with endurance training of any kind.

Anyway, tomorrow morning, 10 miles at 10am…