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Friday, January 2, 2009

Another setback

Sometimes life has a way of letting you know you are going against what it has planned for you. This has happened to me. Just when I felt like my training was coming along nicely and I would be fine for the marathon, life reminded me of its plans. As if my struggles this training period had not been enough, I was introduced to one of Arizona’s finest drivers as she decided to ignore the stop sign and pull out directly in my path while I was driving 40 MPH down the road. My Suburban ended up in the driver’s side of her car and both of our days were ruined. She ended up being cited, my car towed away, and my back and hip very sore.
The therapists at Foothills had me back up and able to run with no discomfort at all in my hip/lower back area, and now it is all back (no pun intended).
It has been 3 weeks since the crash and I have just been able to get out for a few short runs. For the most part I feel aright, but the soreness in my hip comes back around 4 miles, I don’t know what would happen if I really push the distance. I will get a referral from my chiropractor to Foothills for more PT but I have doubts that I will be able to run the half-marathon let alone the full.
I may look for a later race and see if I can get it together by then. Potential races include the Lost Dutchman, or Sedona.

On a side note I love the Saucony Pro Grid Paramount’s I recently bought, but do not have enough on them to do a decent show review. I see that the Garmin 305 GPS/HRM is on sale at Costco for $149 (I see that it has gone up to $159 now), I may have to pick one of those up so I am not running with two watches to cover my GPS/HRM needs.


In other good news…my favorite TV show (Burn Notice) is just around the corner from new episodes.

I have been doing a few shorter runs since writing the above. They have been a bit painful so I have been keeping them short. Been going back to Foothills and getting some more work done, and it is feeling better already.
We are going to Flagstaff this weekend so I will try to run up there in the snow single digit temps. Should be fun!


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