Where was I?

Well, I'm in the middle of an extended taper right now, but I'm running again. To recap the last two weeks:
I took four days off until my Achilles stopped hurting when I walked, then an extra day.

9/11: to test things out, I ran up Dwight Way toward the hills, where the road is at a 15%+ grade just before it gives up completely, for 8x :10 sprints up the hill with long recoveries. Things felt OK, and I jogged it home. I had two stop and walk the last two blocks, though, as the tendon flared up again. 4.5 miles total

9/19: Feeling better. It might not have been the best time for it, but I decided that just 2 weeks out from my race I had to try a long run to see if I could do it. The route was 13.6 flat miles on the Greenway with a fast finish - 3 miles in 20:10 - and a short cooldown. I made it through this run without pain, but I felt like I was riding the edge. My legs were also shredded by the end of it, and I was old man walking for two days. Normally I would take the pace of those last three miles as an indication of how I might perform at Cow Town in October, but coming after 2 weeks off, I'd have to say it's a toss-up. 13.6 miles in 1:48.

9/21: A quickie last night just to get things back in alignment. 3.1 miles in 27:15.