Something funny about younger siblings

I thought this was funny.  I guess most people who are the oldest of their siblings would agree with this. BTW, I am still running.  I lost a bit of motivation when I took 6 weeks off back in the winter. I will update soon with my goals and plan for the last quarter of 2012.

Brett's Story from 1980

I've been scanning old family photographs my parents have and recently came across an article written about my brother Brett one year after his accident.  In order to put it here I have had to scan it in pieces to make in fit on the scanner's face plate.  This article reminded me why I ran the CIM and committed a year in my life to get there.  It wasn't easy for me, but it was far easier than what my brother did to get one little muscle in his arm back. It's hard to read this because the clip had deteriorated  but I hope you take the time to do so. You can click on the excerpts and get a bit bigger clip that is a little easier to read.  A side note to what my family calls Brett's accident, the boy that pulled him out of the water who was his friend, was recently profiled on the TV show "Undercover Boss".  His name is Rick Tigner and he is now President of Kendall-Jackson Winery.  I don't think that he knows the gift he gave my family the day he turned around and swam back to my brother.  He will always be a hero to me.

Transitions

The month of December went by so quickly and here we are in late-January of 2012.  I think I ran 3 times in December.  My group does a holiday lights run and a solstice trail run and I did both of those.  I also did a charity 5k run for the Salvation Army.  All in all I probably ran 9 miles after the CIM.  I have not ran in 5 weeks. 

I guess I need to figure out what I am going to do now.  My journey is complete. I did what I set out to do and completed my goal.  The question is at what cost?  My body feels broken down.  My ITB while not as tight as after the marathon, nevertheless, is still tight.  I get pain sometimes just walking around at work.  I am having some right hip trouble that just started up mid-December.  The hip starts to ache when walking the dog and the next thing I know I have shooting pain down the front of my leg which then causes me to limp severely.  My tibial tendon problems seems to have moved around the corner and is now an Achilles problem.  Geez I feel like one of the parents on Seinfeld complaining about all of their ailments.

I was hoping to do some trail races this spring, but those are out now.  I do have a running clinic I am going to go to on Saturday, January 28th.  It is really a Chi Running class although that is not what he calls it. It is called Running Injury Free.  I hope that 3 hours is enough to get me on the right track.  I am looking forward to it.  In the meantime I am following my groups training plan for their next Half Marathon, the Shamrock'n in mid March.  Today they had to run 6 miles so I did 60 minutes on the elliptical.  Fortunately, I like to listen to podcasts which really helps make it less boring.  Right now one of my favorites is NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.  Hilarious stuff.