Believe to Achieve

hot. 830 am. 5.55 miles to af high and behind and up by temple. first mile 8:34. last mile 7:18.  cooldown 7:24 for 0.55. ap 7:56. hiit. triceps and burpees etc. heel hurt......feel the nerve in back being a contributor. mri friday 815am. back dr tmr. 820am.

8.5 miles bike ride at 525 am to Willow Park to meet Rachelle.  AP 4:11

8 mile run north from Willow Park on JRP, turned around at 4 miles.  First run with someone in a long time.  Hopefully coming back from the dead.  Guarded myself from foot pain.  Was definitely there.  Just can't due anything quick.  AP 7:59.

8.63 miles home (slightly altered course) on mountain bik.  AP 4:15.  Lower back in pain.  Hard to move legs through pedal motion.  Lumbar disc problem   Walked funny for a bit after ward. 

820am-- dr appt at pain clinic.  July 19 th appt for injection into S1 nerve root on right.  Contributing to heel pain and obviously back pain.  I have a transitional lumbar 5 vertebrae.  Apparently this prevents my lumbar L5 to S1 to do what it is suppose to which is 75 percent of the work in exercise--extension/flexion.   Since it is sacralized it prevents it from bending and therefore puts excessive pressure on the L4/L5 disc.  HENCE the herniation noted on MRI last summer CENTRALLY at L4/L5.  This problem is congenital.  Born with it.  It is hard to expain but my last lumbar vertebrae during development was CONFUSED and tried to be sacrum instead of a lumbar vertebrae-- it is half / half-- so mobility compromised.  Stress on back great.  SUCK.  So nerve root at S1 is being compressed like it was on left side last year. 

1115am   Jane's baby shower at Zupas. Fun times.  Good food.  She is having her baby on Monday--induction.

130 to 830-- Travel to from and stay five hours at Camp Jeremiah Johnson for Activity Days.  I volunteered for Amber's group.  My other two girls have been twice each and I have never gone.  It was fun to see what they had done before and to hang with all the girls there. 

four before work.    8:45, 8:04, 7:56, and 7:37. ap 8:06. busy shift. i keep having nerve pains to my feet in random areas. also reacted badly to perfume/essential oils...intense,burning on rigjt side,of body to pinky toe from head.

9.3ish miles. no garmin.  ran with carina and tara.   nerve pain right foot by pinky toe.  had to stop at 9 miles and walk.  said bye to them.  we ran into significant head wind up to the canyon.  ap 7:56 ish.  1.8 miles down at 6:30 pace.  That aggravated my sciatica and foot greatly--seems to be all nerve related in right foot coming from back.  mri tmr on foot. geez.  wish i could just not get it.  i could but then i cant figure out where the problem lies--- back or foot??? or both helping each other fail. 

nada but reservoir with my sister and her kids and amber.  pain not good--lower back, to hamstring (sciatic nerve) to foot (fifth metatarsal nerve).  blah.  1/2 lortab yesterday and today to handle it.  mri this morning that i really wanted to back out of.  too much money and worry it wont show anything to help.

worked all day. s1 pain all day....lower right back to pinky toe and under foot in that area. crud. vacation to mass in three days!  

PM-- weird, laid down for an hour after dinner and got the itch to run outside in the heat wave and I felt light and good-- except for some caution with my lower/back/heel S1 pain I was like my old self.  No pushing pace and just ran what felt easy.  No garmin.  Course tooled run at 7.93miles.  Rounding to 8.  Took 64 minutes so about 8 ap, or 8:02 to be exact if course tool on.  Surprising as it was low 90s, muggy but the heat didn't seem to bother me.  Less sweat than usual and like I said more like myself.  Gave me hope.  Hamstring (right) nerve to there that is got tight and could feel the pull so nothing was forced just tried to relax.  The most even effort my legs have given together in a while.  Felt inspired to run for the sake of Josse's stepfather who was killed this week sadly.  Wow. That was a shocker.