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10 years ago yesterday I was planning to run my first Boston

Apr 15, 2024, 5:27 PM

but a very rare injury decided to reveal itself about 5 weeks out.

In 2013, I was out of shape, fell out of love with running, and my GF at the time was running Boston for the first time. She ran a PR (and much better than expected) and had just walked into her hotel with her mom when the bombs went off. She was unaware what happened for 30-45 min. As you might imagine, the day was scary for anyone there.

For me though, I, 1) felt terrible not being there and 2) was worried to death of all my friends that were up there. All in all, between my running career and my work career, I had b/n 80-90 friends that were that weekend. Thankfully, everyone I knew was not harmed.

When the day finally started to slow down, I realized I was in shock as I had been listening to the police scanners worried all day about what might happen. I didn't eat or sleep the next 4 days/nights. That made things worse.

Way worse.

Seems this event kick started a pretty good midlife crisis. Best thing I did was go to a friends house and stay in their spare bedroom and let them keep an eye on me for a week. It took weeks though to crawl out of that black hole. But I finally started to put things back together.

Thankfully, I turned back to walking (first) and then running and biking. Within 30 days, I had lost 28 lbs and started to feel amazing.

By August, I ran a marathon to qualify for Boston. Then, I slipped into competition mode. Started running more mileage and starting incorporating workouts, tempo runs, Long Run, etc.

By February, I ran a 1:13:00 half marathon 2 days after a big workout, and 4 days after a 22 mile long run.

Sadly, a few weeks later the marathon had to be called off.

It took months to figure out what I had. Finally, a CT scan revealed I have a bone spur on the anterior side of my Si Joint. It my belief that is the main culprit for my pain when I try to run. Sadly, PT (Lots), PRP injections, chiropractic, dry needling, acupuncture, heel lifts have all pretty much been useless.

If anyone is a orthopedic surgeon, or knows of a one (or a trama surgeon even), I have yet to find one in the States that would go in and remove it.

With that said, the bone spur is my Impossible Goal right now, and has been for 10 years, today.

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Thanks Tug!

Yep, running is never easy. In some ways, it VERY much prepared me for the really tough hurdles in life.

Sadly, I know my best days are behind me as I'll never reach the times I ran post collegiately with the Hansons ODP in Michgian, or shortly thereafter.

I was hoping to break my Marathon record (2:29:03)* that day in Boston and the workouts and predictive charts told me 2:28-2:31.

However, more than anything, I just want to get back to running where you slip into the zone and nothing major hurts and you can spend time and peace with your own thoughts and think about the day and process and flush all the things you need to.

I used to describe what running did for me like this: I have a plate full of 10, 12, 15 things that are on my mind, such as: to do list, things I'm worried about, things that upset me within the last day, etc, etc. By the end of the run, I've flushed half of them and my plate no longer feels like it's over flowing. I've never found any other activity that did for me (mentally) what running did.

*Ran at Chicago the year they stopped the race b/c of the heat. Like you said, too many elements can really derail a marathon. Thankfully, training in ATL that summer prepared me well for a 90 degree day in Chicago and I suffered less than most.

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This poast is deep.

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I think that Paul Revere guy passed him on a horse.

What year was that Tug?

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My knees and running parted

10 years ago yesterday I was planning to run my first Boston

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I like to go to the Boston Marathon to bet on the runners

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TD ???

Had not thought about it until seeing your post, but this is 20 years since

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