I rarely have to wait of a scheduled doctor appt, but than again, I'm with an HMO and they son't tend to linger with their patients.  They are all about numbers and keeping to their schedule.  I think I'd rather wait, and have the doctor willing to spend more time.

  

I have not found a correlation between wait time vs. time spent with doctor.

Hope your progression run goes - or went - well, B-Plus.

Same for me, Blue, lots of waiting at the doc.  But then, being retired military, I go to a military hospital for my appointments.  Usually everything goes pretty well, but the problem is when there is some kind of emergency, just about all the military doctors are  "on call', so when the 'Code Blue" or whatever code alarm goes off, then the 'out-patients' are left sitting for a while, as the docs go to the ER, treatment center, or wherever, to help out.  Even so, I don't mind, I get very good healthcare, and probably at a lot cheaper than most of you pay for yours.  A little waiting is just the price I have to pay sometimes.  I can live with that.

Well, LRB, LIQUID advil will go into the butt cheek a little easier....

Dave, I am SO sorry your back is hurting, I have to deal with that to some degree every flippin' day. I would not wish that on anyone.  Glad you could still run.  Hope you are back (no pun intended) to 100% in no time!

Good luck with the deep tissue massage, Free Soul.....umm.......

Congrats on your miles, Damaris....nice you could get a 6:30 a.m. run in!

Happy social group running, Z!  Hope the weather behaves for you!

Good luck with the 10 miles, Jack.  Sorry about the heel pain, though.  If it continues, maybe get a sorbothane heel pad to use temporarily for some relief.

Lily, I did not realize you were having surgery.  Wishing you a successful outcome and a very speedy recovery!   Umm, the only thing I remember about Quebec is some battle between General Wolfe and General Montcalm in the French & Indian Wars....that's the extent of my knowledge about Quebec, lol.

Hope you can get your core work in, OOTB.  And be consistent with it.  You don't want to end up like me... 

 

Ohhh....I thought Quebec was a separate city.....as you can see, I did not major in geography....and often get lost a lot... 

Quebec is sort of like New York. There's New York State and New York City. Then there's Quebec Province and Quebec City.

I think Quebec is also like Texas - it would like to secede.

  

I think Quebec is also like Texas - it would like the rest of the country is begging them to secede.

FYP.

 

Funny. But we're such natural-born irritants here that we will probably stay within Canada just to piss off the anglos.

Again, just like Texans.

 

I hope you don't have neighbours flying the Seahawks flag.

I can't walk a single block without seeing blue & green something.

I had to cut my planned 8 mile MLR short at 4.8 miles and take the bus back to work. Left IT band, which has never bothered me before in my life, started complaining around mile 3.5, stretched and massaged my hip a bit but it just continued to get worse. Beyond annoyed right now. I spent the last couple of months running easy miles and I feel like not doing any speedwork at all during that time was a bad call - my legs are rebelling now that I'm trying to add it back into my routine.

Would some kind of professional massage be a good move, or should I just try to work the kinks out myself with foam roller/stick/lacrosse ball?

 

It varies from province to province. Lily and Cy can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's 18 in Quebec. 19 here in BC. Back in the day, my friend used to go to a nightclub near the border to pick up young American women.

Yep, 18. We know how to hold our liquor well early, here. :-)