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A naughty 60 mins of ellipticalling. 

So, weirdest thing.  Last night, in the middle of the night, I woke up with the most horrific back (flank) pain.  I thought, "I have run 85 mpw and have never hurt like this before, but I hurt my back from CLEANING house????".  So I roll every which way in bed trying to get rid of the never-ending pain.  I got up, walked around, laid back down, ...., just waves and waves of pain.  So then I lay there hyperventilating and  thinking, "Oh my, I might have to go to the ER, this might be some sort of kidney pain and it just won't let up".  Dean woke up and asked me if I was ok, and I told him what was going on and then when he asked if we needed to go to the ER, I said, "I don't think so" ... After about 1/2 hour more it sort of abated -- I could still feel it, but the waves were getting a little less nauseating.  I can feel it this morning, and still can't tell if it is muscular or deeper.  I can definitely feel something when I take a deep breath, but I don't have a fever or any other pain, so I am right now, assuming (hoping) it is just something going on with my back.  The only other thing it could be, without any other signs of infection/inflammation, would be a kidney stone ... and so far, I have not passed one.  I am dragging today because of lack of sleep, and pain, so I can't tell if I feel sick or just drained.  I didn't feel particularly "good" on the elliptical, but when does one anyway?

Anyway ... it was weird, and it kind of pissed me off.

Back to work.

I hope you are all enjoying your Sunday!!

another day, another hour + wu/cd *in* the gym.  Which is probably ok, since it still is 100F degrees here!!  This is way outside of normal for us this time of year, it should be in the 80s now!  

I hope you are all training hard, focusing on being the winners that  you are and making us bloggers proud!
 

another hour another ...yawwwwn ... hour.  

Difficult to get up, Dean got home from work at midnight (grant deadline), poor guy.  

Thursday -- pool running (I hope my new mp3 player gets here by then).  My aircast should be here today ...I am hoping by wearing it when I am walking, and ellipticalling, I might speed this healing up!  Back/kidney is better, still can feel it, but not really painful, just weird.  I guess I just can't clean my house, for health reasons.  Do you think insurance will pay for a house cleaner?

Have a  beautiful, joyous, day bloggers.

One hour on the elliptical. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  I watched "Hell's Kitchen" (cooking "reality" show).  An hour of my life I will never get back.   I hope I never have to see that again. (I don't have a choice on what is on the TV).

Here you go, what does this have to do with running you ask?  nothing, just like my life right now ;-).

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration=20 (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and a bum.

3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4.Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sacrastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido : All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9.Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10.Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13.Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

A little over an hour of gloriously boring deep water running.  I had spent some money (and some time downloading a few pretty cool "radio mystery shows" - kind of like Philip Marlow done on the radio) on a "waterproof" MP3 player. Well, the dratted thing died after 5 mins.   I am sending it back and demanding my money back, but it goes in the "pile of things to get sent back" (like walking cast-boot, extra aircast - because they told me they did not have one, yet sent me one 5 days later after I already had obtained one, and 2 swimsuits that did not fit).  Just to add insult to injury (pun intended), not only can't I run, but I am paying a lot for the privilege.

Anyway ... I did finish a whole hour and broke it up with doing 2 min hard, 2 min easy, 3 min hard, 2 min easy, 4 min hard, 2 min easy .... etc.  I don't think I killed too many brain cells in the process, just my spirit ;-).

 
I hope you are all training well, recovering well, tapering well, and just plain ole, being awesomely well!!!

1 hour deep water areobics + 30 mins water "sprinting" both with and without the floatation belt.

I have good news and bad news ... good news:  I CAN RUN!!!  bad news: It is still going to hurt!!! 

The the MRI came back negative for "stress fracture" ... but unfortunately, I have extremely severe (per radiologist) "medial tibial stress syndrome" (e.g., shin split).  Mine is not only severe in terms of "grade" but also because it covers the entire medial aspect of my tibia (from ankle to knee).   It is "correctable".  However, it was not "caused" by "too-much-too-soon" or other training mistakes and since the other tibia is also showing the beginning signs of the same problem (though it never hurt) I need orthotics.  This is not a problem, I will be fit for them next week (though I am not sure I will be able to wear my favorite shoes (Nike Free TRs) for a while.  What is a larger issue (to me anyway).  Is that it is unclear how long it will be until I don't run with pain ... John thinks that the orthotics will help with the pain.  While it is possible that I *could* be ready for Houston (since Dean, my coach and John think it will only take me ~ 3 weeks to get back into shape) - I am not sure that I will be where I would want to be for a marathon, so I am not sure if I will 1) defer my marathon entry to next year or, 2) run the half -- both are options.  Right now, I am leaning towards deferring my entry to next year --- but who knows, if I can get right up to where I was (due to my horribly boring but consistent cross-training activities and the fact that I have gained *0* weight) ... I might reconsider in a month or so.  But, I will start adding some runs tomorrow!  Yippeee!!!! 

I hope all of you getting ready for races this weekend have wonderful runs!!  And, those of you training for races, have excellent training runs.  And, enjoy your weekend everyone!

A little over 30 mins.  No pain in my leg (though I would not call this run "pain free" 3 weeks off is a looooong time)!!  YIPPEEE.

I can't wait to see the results from St. George, I know it was hot, I hope not too hot.