The good news, is that I no longer exist in the same pain I did last night at this hour. Nor am I frustrated, irritable, or just plain sick of living in pain.

I actually felt today that I need not train, need not run, need not cross train, but just live without endurance sport for a brief time.
This year has been filled with too much. XC Season, 4 Chronic Injuries, 2 Marathons, a senior thesis, applications to law school, financial aid forms for law school, and finding a job. And 'Oh yea, the end of college, thus, graduating"'

So effective this morning, April 30, 2007, I am officially proclaiming my off-season. I have no goals except to regain full strength, mental and physical, and then begin to run free again. This period will last at least one week, perhaps a month, or two months. In any event, I will not live under the torment and aggression and inner frustration I have endured this year.

I will continue to blog, and my goals are as follows:

Follow a stricter diet.
Not get too lazy.
Sleep More.
Be a better friend.
Maintain my weight, while focusing on core strength.
Practice my faith more completely.
Love my family more intensely.

And in the total of all these acts, I will once gain inhabit my body.