?Friday, March 18 64* and cloudy light wind 4mph

Good morning
As I sit watching Morning Joe with coffee and a heating pad on my Achilles, I try to digest the fact that I was unable to complete any kind of workout this morning. I did rise and get on to the beach by 7:30 a.m. with the realization that this may have just been a day to walk for 45 minutes to 1 hour. I was ready to accept that. However I never got started because the nagging pain in my left Achilles area constantly made me aware of my foot strikes. I could never get comfortable. Finally decided to abandon the effort altogether and return home for some heat and and a plan for the next few days. One consideration is to swim in the community pool here at Sea place. I guess I haven’t yet mentioned that we are living in St. Augustine Florida in a condominium for February and March. It is a lovely place just a few feet off the beach that I have frequently mentioned. The pool has been too cold to swim in up until now. I think it has warmed up enough but I will have to check today. Back home in Jackson New Jersey I frequently take a rest day from running and use the clubhouse pool. For a time in the first few years that I was training I would bike one or two days a week. But about a year-and-a-half ago I had a bike accident that tore up my knee seriously. I have been back on the bike since but not with the same confidence. So running workouts have become the norm. I think it would be very beneficial for my body if I could get back in the habit of biking more frequently. I have to admit my race times have dropped dramatically in the last year-and-a-half. I don’t know if that solely is a product of doing more road run workouts. I guess I have to become more clear to myself about my goals. There is a real chance I know that setting goals too high might lead me to injuring myself training for those goals. The running that I have been doing, the training that I have been doing the past 4 years, have made me much healthier and more confident about my health. That alone should be enough without any need for competition. But competitions are really fun. Then again I have told many people that the only reason I run is so I can drink beer. Another very good reason to be conservative and simply enjoy the opportunity to move. Maybe as I continue to express these ideas it will all become clear to me. So, even if I am the only one who reads this,it still might be a positive enterprise.

Foot is feeling better after heat. I will probably try one more time today to walk either on the beach or around the neighborhood. I will keep you posted.