Old Man Still running

Recovered from the fun weekend run.  The leg came out a little sore, but coming down.   I made an appointment with the ortho doctor to get x-rays on Thursday.  We'll see how it has healed up.

Power walk during lunch.  I've totally recovered from Wasatch pacing. Wow, almost pain-free in the leg.  Much better than last week.   We'll see.  I'll get x-rays tomorrow.

X-rays were encouraging.   The Dr. could still see the faint fracture line but said he would not classify it as "the dreaded black line" when there is non-union going on.  He told me that I probably should expect some continued pain for the next six months.  If after that, still a problem, come back in for another x-ray.   The stress fracture and healing around it is massive.  The area really lights up on the x-ray.  He even called in his PA to see the x-ray, calling it "classic" stress fracture.

So, I'm not going to worry as much anymore.  I'll still be careful, but I think I can start kicking it back in.   He asked me if I was running again and I did admit that I ran a 100-miler a couple weeks ago.  He laughed and shook his head, but didn't seem very concerned.   I said I had run 57 miles at Wasatch 100 and was left with a little pain.  The PA chimed in and said he would a ton of pain.  OK, so I'll put all this within propective and just continue to be careful, but not worry as much.

Ran up above the Saratoga Springs flood area.  Wow!  Those homes didn't have a chance.  The downpour hit a slope and everything funneled down across a very wide area to those homes.  The slope of that valley shows that for centuries water as always funnelled down there and then they build homes in the path of the water.  Bad place.  There are several other areas in a similar situation.  A lot more needs to be done to protect those homes that were just put in bad places.   The water and mud tore up massive new washes, very deep.   It distroyed all the roads and trails in that area.   The powerline road has kind of been filled back in so trucks and get through.   Just amazing.   I suspect even without the fire that homes would of still been flooded, minus all that mud.

The little run left the leg sore again Oh well.  I know it isn't in the bone, it is in the surrounding "cast" that the leg has built around the fracture area.  Tendons pull at that area and makes it sore.   I'll just have to live with it.   I can block out that kind of pain just fine as long as I know I'm not doing any damage.