I have been really worried about this race because I have had back pain in the lumbar spine for the last 3 races and it really isn’t that fun to run with back pain. I left my office on Wednesday after I saw the last patient and somehow made it to the airport (Midway…boooo) in time to catch my flight. My bestie, Jenn was taking a trip out to Connecticut for work and we decided to take a trip together, roll a race into it and visit my other bestie Jan in Massachusetts. This

Well, just today, I have had 6 people who are following my running blog ask me..."and what do you do for back pain?" That is a great question and here is the answer. After six months of lower back pain that I couldn't get under control with great chiropractic care (thanks Toby), I got an MRI. The MRI, taken in late 2015, revealed a couple of disc bulges in my lumbar spine. The degenerative nature of the vertebrae in the area made it likely to that these bulges had been de