Total Mileage - 4.55 miles
For those of you that check in here from time to time it has been no secret that I have been having pain (and a lot of it) in my right leg. I chalked it up to tendinitis and shin splints. Apparently I should have listened to my wife and saw the Dr. a while ago.
During the Johnny Cash half my legs were really bothering me. I ran a 4 miler the following Tuesday with a little bit of pain (I figured I was just working out some lactic acid) but at the 1.55 mile mark on my Wednesday run (it was supposed to be 8 miles) I stepped down and was pretty sure that I was either going to pass out or throw up. If it were to be both, I hoped the passing out came second (for obvious reasons). Thankfully it was neither. I immediately shut it down.
Normally I can shake off pain and muddle through. This is not an attempt to sound macho. My pain tolerance just is what it is, and actually in this case appears to have gotten me into some trouble. The pain did not subside and it was getting hard to place a lot of weight on my right leg. I went in and had xrays done on both legs as a precaution. My left leg looked fine. My right leg however showed two hairline fractures in the shin, and 4 different bone spurs in my foot and ankle. To top it off, according to my doctor, based on some of the scar tissue and from the really close views, it looked like I had been running on them for months and the breaks had been attempting to heal but I kept it from happening by continuing to run.
There is nothing that they can do for my shin, I just need to limit impact for 6-8 weeks, which puts CIM out of the question. Which unfortunately means that I'll have to wait another full year to try to take down the course that kicked my tail last year.
I probably won't check in again until next year as obviously, there will be no running related posts to talk about. I'll be back in 2014!
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