I’m running again. It isn’t going as well as I had hoped; still a lot of tightness and crappiness in my right leg, but it’s going. In fact, running each day makes it even better, which leads me to believe I just need to get the motion going again.<br/><br/>I have yet to run more than a mile around the neighborhood, but I think this weekend might be time to double up to two. Despite being out for over two months, my natural pace on the runs has been around 7:50… Not too bad!<br/><br/>I’ve also been running and living in my orthotics. After only a couple of days, I began to feel comfortable in them, and feel they’re really making a huge difference; I actually feel like I’m much better balanced now that my legs are artificially the same length. The best part was they only cost $169, which is dirty cheap. Other people I know, with the same brand, paid well over $300. My chiropractor rocks in that sense…<br/><br/>This weekend also marks the beginning of the <a href=”http://www.dcroadrunners.org/programs/marathon-training.html” target=”_blank”>Marathon Training Program</a> (I made that cool hover image thing, by the way) for the <a href=”http://www.nationalmarathon.com/” target=”_blank”>National Marathon</a>. Unable to run any great distance, but with tons of knowledge from reading books and just being a running, I figured I’d volunteer my time to coach new runners. Unfortunately, I just found out today that this historically has been a run-along program, which I cannot do for obvious reason. We’re currently trying to figure something out (maybe I’ll coach the half marathon instead?), but it’s a slightly sad situation.<br/><br/>Another thing I’m hoping to get involved in this weekend is <a href=”http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/certification/” target=”_blank”>course certification</a>! The club has recently been gouged by various police departments and park services, which has resulted in use not being able to hold a lot of our races where we used to hold them. As such, we need to make new courses. Our club is home to <a href=”http://www.usatf.org/events/courses/search/searchResults.asp?lastName=Thurston&amp;firstInitial=Robert” target=”_blank”>one of the premier certifiers</a> in the country, whom I’ve been in touch with, and is more than happy to teach me the fine art. Neat stuff, but am I overextending myself? Eventually I will be able to run again, and I certainly am filling up my schedule with other things…<br/><br/>I currently feel like a bit of a blob. I’m soft in the midsection, I’ve lost a lot of leg definition, and I just don’t feel too energized. I <span style=”font-style: italic;”>really</span> need to get back to 100% soon. On the bright side, I’m up to seven pull-ups (up from two maybe a month ago?)… I’ve kind of been slacking on that training with the nasty weather these past few days, but I should be able to hit ten soon!<br/>