Finish or Die!

I take off for a week and all hell has broken loose!
Dude, what a blow. Hopefully your knee is feeling better already, but wow that does not sound good at all. My philosophy on injuries has sort of changed as I've gotten to be an older and wiser(?). I've run through a marathon with a bum knee, limping all 26 miles, and in the end did feel pretty good about it. But I'm not sure I would do it again, especially because I've learned that depending on the injury you can actually do some permanent damage that can lead to a chronic problem. So I would be careful about that for sure and get your injury diagnosed.
So not to sound too morbid about it but already both of our marathons will not be one of the times where the training clicks and at the end of the race you say "I'm not sure if could run much better than that." That will have to be for a future marathon, which is OK, as it's a long road.
So now the question is - what are the new goals? I'm thinking that it should just be to finish in a manner that will not risk permanent damage.....in other words "Finish or Die!" That is the true spirit of the Running Men!

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[paul]

well we got 6 hours before the course closes. So the new motto is Six hours or Die! Obviously I don't want to do anything stupid that will risk me having a problem knee the rest of my life, so I will continue to ice and no crazy impact activities. I have been able to swim. I will go in to get it looked at again in 2 weeks.
paul