If Jay starts when I start then move to Jay's thread.

Yesterday Ralph and I ran 3 miles. Well.  I ran 3 miles slowly. Ralph felt sorry for Leon and so they stopped a few times to sniff and unload.

Erika. Yes. Get that checked out.

Mariposai.  Yes. So glad you are on your way back.

Holly. Wow. I didn't know the extent of the hoarding problem. Wow. However. It makes me feel a little more sane since I spent Friday afternoon purging my closet and taking two big bags to FISH.

TO ALL YOU WITH HIP ISSUES.  My story.  I had been having pain in my right side for years. I thought it was my right ovary but I do not have a right ovary. In December 2014, my PCP said, "I don't know what's going on. Let's have you go get a colonoscopy."

So. That was a big pain in the...  I have a tortuous colon. Dr Rakhra found a little polyp. All in all no biggie. Butt. The pain in the right side would occasionally flare.  I thought it was all in my head.

2015 was my best running year. Although by the end of 2015, I could not even sleep on my right side. Also. My feet hurt very badly. And my right knee started to hurt on the fibula side.

Went back to PCP in early 2016 and complained of my right side. He said, "There aren't any organs where you are complaining"  I said, "Should I go to PT and see if that helps?"  And he said "YES"

A few months into PT, and A LOT of pain to the point where I could barely walk let alone run. I asked my PT,  "Could this be a labral tear?" and she said "No way."

Then I went to the spine doctor who sent me to his hip doctor partner because the issue was not spine.

Bottom line:  I had a tear in my right hip labrum.  It was practically in shreds. Hip doctor did arthroscopic surgery repairing the labrum, shaving the bone spurs and attaching the labrum to the acetabulum.

All of this took its toll on me. Going from running 30 mpw to nothing. And getting a tick borne disease that summer... well, I ended up in therapy. Psychological therapy.

SO that was really good.  I am so glad 2016 is behind me.  2017 is a blur but I spent it with no therapy anywhere and I feel stable.

My point here is:  Get things checked out.  Take care of things. Whether they be physical or emotional or whatever.

Mornin' RCG, Tomwhite, and everyone to come.

Saturday's workouts:

Henrun (2 morning miles in low 40's)

Tomwhite (40 min PoolRun, nb, cf, ris, paw)

RunnerKSA (8.3 path miles, slow and steady, with a Dunkin cooldown)

Falconfixer ('nother impromptu race - half marathon n 1:35:?? - 6th overall)

Tet (2 mile round-tripper to the bus to the closed pool)

Dave59 (3.29 morning miles - 5 loops around a golden pond)

Spacityrunner (5.2 Rock Creek Parkway miles in 1 hr in sunny, 50's temps)

Mariposai (6 miles on the OIB course with snow - knee did well)

Holly (14.6 miles in windy 33° temps)

Pfriese (16.5 miles - last long run before Boston)

Mike (16 miles in about 7:17 pace)

Wildchild (morning 10K with CMRA on paved paths - 1:10; 4th AG)

Stumpy (3.1 lake loop miles)

Surly Bill (7.5 afternoon miles - hip is getting better)

Twocat (10 miles, DW did 4)

Evanflein (1 hr. snow shoveling cross-training)

What an ordeal, RCG! Yes, it does pay to get things checked out, but I think most of us (OK - me) try to self-diagnose and treat before going on to the next step for consulting someone who might actually know something about the issue bedeviling us. The tricky part is deciding when to make that call.

Excellent racing by Falconfixer and Wildchild, and terrific long runs by Holly, Pfriese, and Mike. And congrats to everyone else for getting out there, whatever you did for your workouts.

We went to see The Moth last night - 5 'regular' people telling true stories from their lives. Some funny, some sad, and one terrifying (by a female reporter who was held, 'questioned,' jailed, and then released in Syria a few years back). It was a very interesting and entertaining evening.

We didn't get home till 11:30 last night, so I slept in a bit this morning, but was still out the door before 6 for 7.6 EZ RW miles in 32° temps with a fresh dusting of snow. My hip is still not where I need it to be yet, so I'm doing more roller, ball, and TENS work to help it along.

Have a greta Sunday!

Jay

Congratulations, bioguy!  That's great for your daughter.

Nice racing yesterday wilchild and falconfixer!

We have sad news here in Nashville.  Peter Pressman, the fixture of Nashville running and the President of Nashville Striders, died of an apparent heart attack this morning before the organized group training run.  I am assuming he was at the run.  He was 72 and in seemingly perfect health.  He did so much for our community and was a dear friend to many of us.  It can just happen so fast.......

Got out for a slow 3.1 to finish up the week.  Gloomy day, but no rain or snow!  Almost time for more basketball.

So many great runs this weekend!!

KSA - so very sorry to hear about your running friend's passing ... 72 is too young!!

No news yet on my friend's husband --- this is so weird as is that wife who disappeared and then left word about the van 2 years later!!

Up early for 7:30 Palm Sunday mass, then hit the gym for 1.0 warm up mile on the treadmill, Body Pump, 2.2 miles on the treadmill plus a little more core/ab work. Just came home from a bridal shower brunch for a good friend's daughter. Now I need to spend a little time with the hubby!!

Haven't seen much of him this weekend since I worked yesterday and he went to the Cape so help out his mom!!

 My youngest (who just finished medical school; proud dad moment) is coming over to spwnd the night. She is headed to the Medical College of Wisconsin to begin her residency in Ob/Gyn.

 

Awesome!

Since we are going on vacation next Saturday, we have been running around all weekend on pre-vacation errands.  Including the dreaded bathing suit shopping...is there anything more demoralizing to a middle-aged woman? 

8.2 miles for me in a windy 27 degrees.

Run - two miles back-and-forth to today’s sermon on,

of all things after yesterdays posts on the same, hoarding. (see below).

Cherry blossoms
Then, annual cherry blossom tour of the 30+ Yoshino cherry trees Kobe Sister City Park near the office and even more at the arboretum, Japanese gardens and UW Quad that I remember first from the UW Quad in 1962.  Most were brought over in 1912 along with the WDC ones. Used to be about a five mile one-way run with DW meeting me there with hot tea and o-nigiri sushi balls but it’s too far now for just plain running so’ve gotten to like the drive I used to avoid as much as possible.  Had a 10K route in Tokyo days with more than a thousand blossoming trees just as spectacular to me in every regard as the northern lights.  

Hoarding vs. Hoarding Disorder
After yesterday’s hoarding posts, it’s a good thing I looked it up ‘cause, by coincidence, it was the topic of today’s sermon. Turns out there’s nothing wrong with hoarding that jad gotten me feeling guilty of having trouble throwing out stuff even though it might have some future useful, sentimental, collectible, etc. value vs. Hoarding Disorder that is an often an uncontrollable, irrational, random and haphazard collecting of useless or unnecessary clutter that disrupts living or work spaces.  

Growing up a little southeast of erika-land where everything came on a weekly steamship, our depression-era parents never threw away anything that could be stored in otherwise empty space in the garage, attic or basement.  So there!  Besides, I’ve got everything so organized already in boxes in the double-length garage the we don't need all of anyway that the kids can easily junk, donate or keep whatever they want . . . <<<(ed note: or so he thinks)>>> when, as KSA’s friend’s sudden passing before an otherwise regular weekly run shows, we never know when we can’t.  

Beside how could I ever throw away the IMH t-shirt (1987),

Equinox (1991),

Mt Fuji (1987),

Mayor’s rare green one from 1978 that I usually wear in St. Pat’s races, ,........
Erika - do you keep any of your Equinox t’s?
Holly - do you still have yours?

Sorry about your friend, KSA.

Bioguy, congrats to your DD!  So you don't run farther than 18 miles on the Hanson's marathon plan?

Tet, you're so lucky to live where there are cherry blossoms!  When my DD was in grad school at UW, she said she never really saw the cherry blossoms on the quad, because she pretty much never left the physics building.  

I don't deserve any congrats for my race yesterday - I started out running slowly with a friend who has a sore knee, then stopped at a park restroom at mile 3, then caught up to another friend who took several walk breaks (and I walked with her).   It was quite leisurely and chatty - not a race at all, just a nice 6 mile run with friends.

Today I ran 6 trail miles in Golden Gate Canyon State Park.  There was some snow and mud, but the trails were 90% dry.  This makes the first 50 mile week for me since last September - ramping up the training!

So I looked at the elevation profile for the 50k Tammy and I are doing in Oregon in May. Here's a link: https://www.strava.com/activities/881232517

It goes around a large lake, and is pretty flat for 20 miles, then we get to climb a mountain and run back down in the last 10 miles. The climb is about 1,000 ft in 2 miles.  I'm totally good with hiking up and running down the mountain, but I almost never run 20 miles anywhere that's even remotely flat. The thing that worries me is that I usually take a lot of walk breaks on the steeper uphills, and I'm not sure I can run 20 miles without a walk break!  I guess I could drive down to the flatlands and find some flat trails to run, but I love mountain running, and that doesn't sound very appealing!  Any advice?