Numbers

As I've mentioned before, I adore my PT. I give her most of the credit for my recovery from a serious back injury last year, and as a running specialist she's helped me so much in the last couple of months as I've started out on this journey.

Since my knee sprain is healed and we're wrapping up our time together, she did some post-testing last week to compare my current strength to my baseline numbers in mid-December. She tested maybe a half a dozen muscles on the right and left sides, and I'm happy to report that virtually all of the tests she did were off the charts. On a few of them, I was even too strong for her to keep pushing, I would have knocked her over!

Since I've started running, I haven't lost weight and haven't seen too much of a positive change in my body (yet). I know these things take time, and I'm not disappointed or impatient, I know it'll happen eventually if I keep going at this pace, which I plan on doing. But to see such huge, tangible gains in strength was really, really empowering in the meantime.

In other numbers news, my official results from the Truffle Shuffle!

-I finished the 2-mile race in 28:06 (14:03-mile pace). My goal was to finish in 30:00, so I'm thrilled.
-I was #33 out of 82 in my age group, Females 25-29. Really? REALLY?? There were a lot of walkers, so I'm sure that's why it looks so good, but I've never come in anything other than last in a race before. Pretty cool.

One last note~ thank you so, so, so, so much for your comments on yesterday's post. I'm really grateful to have you all in my life.