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Nate Karr = Bad A$$

We all have our bad ass sides. This one popped up in my FB feed today from the record board at Pioneer High School. Nate Karr ran 1600 meters (i.e. the mile) in 4 minutes, 8 seconds. Nate is a bad ass.

So What’s Up? Injuries Galore!

So it has been a winding journey leading up to Boston 2019. Like 2015, the road has been littered with the type of potholes called injuries. Let me recount them for you: 

1. December 2018: The now infamous broken collarbone and resulting in surgery and a super cool stainless steel plate being implanted in my left shoulder area (i.e. screwed in with a DeWalt 18 volt). 

2. February 2019: Pulled hamstring. Sometime that month, I visited the surgeon for a follow up visit and heard "yeah, go ahead and run."  So I did...like right out the gate I ran hard.  Bad idea. Left hamstring yelled back at me and caused me to slow down for about a week. 

3. March 2019: Plantar fasciitis (or maybe even a small plantar tear).  This is the one that that put me over the edge.  Did a ten miler at marathon pace on a Saturday. Then the Sunday run was supposed to be 20 at about 9:15 pace. I was having some foot pain but decided to push it...it is the Boston Marathon. I always go for it. I started out the Sunday run and felt the tension and pain every step on the left foot but figured things would loosen up - like they always do. Well, it didn't loosen up. I finished the run putting in about 2 hours 50 minutes and went home and got on the couch. My foot was sore but I thought it would be fine. Long story short...I knew I had a problem 5 days later when my foot still hurt. Now two weeks later, I haven't run again. 

But...will I run (or somehow finish) at Boston?  

Are you kidding me?  Hell yes. It is Boston. 

Here's the plan right now: 

- I've been keeping all training intensities where they should be....but on the bike. It is the best I can do. Some visuals of those workouts are attached.  

- The foot is improving. I'm doing PT exercises everyday frequently. Yesterday and today my foot feels a little like it could survive a little running. But I'm not going to push it.  I will wait a few more days and decide then what might make sense in terms of the next run. I might not run until Hopkinton. I might even walk Boston if it means being healthy for tri season. 

I'm proud of myself for slowing down for this injury. In the past few years - Boston 2015 is an example - I would have just pushed through and likely made the injury worse.

Stay tuned. I will let you know how things go between now and Patriots Day 2019. Peace.