when it hurts

Note to self: Do not run a race while injured. Because while you may feel like you are flying at the time, you will feel like someone has taken your leg and wrung it out like a wet towel afterward. And then you will find yourself online for hours, looking up really awful things like tendonitis (or tendinitis or however you choose to spell it because apparently both ways are acceptable, kind of like doughnut and donut, only not as happy) or -- even worse -- stress fractures.

Dear god, just the thought of that last one makes me shudder.

I am headed back to physical therapy in the morning to get some answers.

In the meantime, I am trying to think positive thoughts and focus on things that make me happy.

Like cats.

Singing cats.

In costume.

Yes.