The month of Nov.

The day after Thanksgiving we went to the Zoo and Fairytale Land

Donuts to get us ready for the Turkey Trot.

Enjoying a perfect fall day.

Abbie did a Thanksgiving program. She was such a cute pilgrim.

This is Erick at the end 26.2 miles. Tyler really wanted to run in with him. (So did I, but you will get that story below.)

Sorry there was no time to post. But things are starting to settle down a little bit. Here is a list of all the fun things that we did. Nov. We had the Sacramento marathon. I had so much fun last year at the Tahoe Marathon that I was really looking forward to doing another. I attempted, but I had to drop out at mile 14, because of my knee. The previous 2 months had been a struggle of trying to train and not kill my knee. I had ITB syndrome in my left knee. So that didn't go very well for me. Erick finished the marathon, it was his first. He did great. I was sad because I would have loved to finish that with him. After the marathon Erick (being my physical therapist) told me that I needed to take a break from running, but I wouldn't hear of it. I had trained too hard to to let it all slip away. So I cut down the mileage and signed up for the Turkey trot, hoping that it would help me feel like I had completed something. (Not finishing the marathon was very hard on me.) I ran the first 4 miles relatively pain free and then mile 5 & 6 came and they were absolute torture. Every step killed me. But I kept going and finished. After this race I realised that I was going to hurt myself permanently if I didn't stop and so I took 6 weeks off from running, or biking or really doing anything that hurts my knees. It was a really long 6 weeks. I could just feel the hard earned muscle melting away. I kept myself busy with Christmas and hoped that I would get better. I tried to do strengthening on my knee and did some physical therapy. I started back running last week. And it was pain free!!!!!! And I just have to take it slowly and hopefully I will make a full recovery. Sorry to ramble on so much about this, apparently I needed to get this off my chest.