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 was the planes, trains and automobiles race (like NOLA). So, we drove to Midway (lots of traffic), parked, took a bus, didn’t wait AT ALL at the TSA (but Jenn always has to be patted down – it’s the shifty eyes) and wai
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 developing over a long period of time and ...I'm not gonna lie...I have not been easy on this body, with softball, horseback riding, my job and running a marathon a week in training miles. So, I took some time off in late
