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This past week or so, my Achilles' Heel has been my Achilles' Heel.

It had been sore for a while, then got worse during the Rock n Roll Half Marathon in Chicago two weeks ago. Then, over the next week, it started feeling worse. So now I'm not running.

It's definitely frustrating not to be training, especially since this throws off a lot of what I had planned for the fall. My July turned out to be a horrible training month. And especially with Olympic track now on, all I want to do is get out there and run.

That said...with the Tour just finished and the Olympics going on (there are events other than track), I'm trying to embrace my inner cyclist. Of course, I'm a wholly inexperienced biker...I've never actually biked to train; all I've done in the past x years is bike to class.

But if I'm going to embrace the cycling culture while I'm out of commission, what I'm going to need is a bike this this:



Unfortunately, the bike I have is more like this:


Ok, so maybe I'm hyperbolizing to make a point, but that's what it feels like sometimes. Anyway, the point is that I'm totally a scrub biker, especially since I won't even be wearing the appropriate apparel (I'm just going to use my Saucony half tights that I'll never wear otherwise).


But soon I'll be legit. I've been working on these since I haven't been running:

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