diddlee

We Get an Idea It all began several years back. Joe had posted about running a short run of 2 miles or so. I in had begun training for a small triathlon with another friend and in a bit of friendly competition posted that I had run a slightly longer distance. After a little give and take, he proposed that we run the Seattle Half Marathon together. The problem lay in the fact that that event took place on Thanksgiving weekend. My counter proposal was that I would run a half marathon on my trail in Sylacauga at the same time as his in Seattle. All went very well in my training. I ran back to back 10 mile trail runs while in North Carolina followed by a 13 mile trail run on the Sylaward. But during that 13 mile run, something began to hurt in my right outer knee area which I learned was something called the Ileotibial Band Fiction Syndrome. That ended my running for 6 months. I wouldn't get back to it for 2 years. Meanwhile Joe continued to run. He completed 2 marathons and at leas