All Continues to Be Well In The Maine Land

Here's a recap of a few things:  

1. My 15 mile run / the Half Marathon:

Well Sunday went okay.  I ran it faster than I needed to at an average 9:30 - 9:40 / mile pace.  I crossed the finish line and then immediately turned around to bang out 2 more.  I felt great for 99.9% of the run.  The inside of my left ankle hurt towards the end.  When I finally finished I was thinking stress fracture to myself, but the pain has since gone away.  I iced it Sunday for safe measure.  Who knows.  Where my water bottle was sitting on my back is VERY tender.  VERY very tender.  So from now on (since I didn't drink my drink away) I'm going to safety-pin my goo's to my spi-belt, put my iPhone in there as well (I LOVED listening to Pandora - Welcome to the Jungle Station) and just drink gatorade from the stops.  So that's the plan as far as gear is concerned!!!  

I ran 4.2 @ 10min/mile on Monday and felt really good.  A few aches but nothing major.  When I got home I iced my left knee, as that was the only think that slightly hurt.  I have an appointment with my Neuromuscularskeletal Specialist (she's basically a chiropractor, BUT she went to medical school and is better than a chiropractor) Tuesday morning at 7:30am.  I've seen her in the past for issues with my neck and is wonderful!  I know she will put me all back in alignment and I should be completely fine by Wednesday (I'm also going to try and see her every other week until after the marathon).  I also got on antibiotics Monday for this stupid cold / sinus infection / chest congestion thing that I've had since 9/13/12. 

On Tuesday I did a boot-camp class with friends for my cross-training day which was awesome.  I had a great appointment with Dr. Zoll.  It turns out that my left rids were all out of alignment (probably caused during the yoga on Saturday) and my neck was a mess.  So she worked on my rids and upper neck and I still need to go back next week to work some more.  She was awesome and I feel a lot better.  My neck still hurts a little, but my "running body" is great!  I'm running 17 on Friday with my running partner, Cindy.  It's a nice flat route and we're going to drop water / gatorade on Thursday so we don't have to carry it.  It's an out & back route which we should be able to tackle with out any problems!  Please be thinking about us from 9:30 - noon on Friday.

The antibiotics are working!  I'm feeling about 90% and have reduced my nose blowing, etc. by about 80%.  

2. Wyatt's soccer and Sayre's field hockey were both rained out this past weekend so no photos.