Interesting

Well here's the link to the article about the marathon coming to Savannah.

So I went to the Tybee Island Social Club tonight with my mom, aunt, cousin and some friends and I ran into this guy that my brother grew up with. They were very good friends-- crazy devils. It was totally bizarre to see him, especially so out of the blue and on Tybee of all places. It's a small world I suppose. Anyway, he's a runner, and through the magic of facebook, I suppose that he has been keeping up with my running. So he asked me what races I had done, and I told him, and then I told him that I have tendonitis and that it's killing me and I'm so frustrated. It turns out he's had it several times and it's extremely frustrating, but he said that I should swim. He said, "You should just swim. You know, I'm actually a better swimmer than I am a runner. And stretch well." It sort of dawned on me at this point. I've been looking for a game plan to help me with training while in recovery, and while I do love to swim and have swum since my injury, it has been difficult because swimming is so much less accessible than running.

I have felt such a strong connection to the octopus lately. Several funny coincidences involving octopi have happened in the past couple of weeks and I think they are interesting animals. I looked up the symbolism for octopi, and it turns out that they are riddled with all sorts of great stuff. So when Jason told me I just needed to swim, it was sort of a "duh" moment. Of course. And then the octopus is also a great example of being flexible and ready to change, so maybe that's what my inner octopus is guiding me to do. I have to get over the accessibility thing. Don't know how. But hopefully there will be some inspiration from my eight tentacled pal.