Feeling Normal Again

This is around Mile 33

     Ahhh, I'm finally feeling back to normal after taking a month vacation to heal my knee. I've been training and doing light runs for the past week now, but nothing over 7 miles. I've been anxious to see how well I'd bounce back to long distance runs, but didn't want to rush it.
Yesterday I went for a 50 mile walk/jog down a bike path near my house, 25miles out and back. I've done this same trek many times before, back when my training was in full swing and I was injury free. I last tried this route about a month ago a little after the Santa Barbara 100, but only made it 25miles. That was when I started getting sharp pains in my right knee and finally concluded I needed to see a doctor.

Pizza pit stop at Mile 49, before the last victory mile home 

    After resting though and working with my doctors, this time it was a complete success with no pain at all. Towards the end of the run my muscles were a little stiff and I felt like I couldn't finish soon enough, but overall it was a fairly pleasant time. With a couple eating breaks at miles 25 & 49 it took me just over 14hrs. Like I said it was a walk/jog, I'm still trying to get back into the flow of running with out injury. All in all though, It was a great training day.