Road to Recovery
So it's about one week out of the hospital from colon surgery and I am trying to fit the pieces of my life back together.... funny how you don’t realize how sick you are until you aren't .... but see.. I totally believe that endurance athletes cannot distinguish pain. Marathon training had been going exceptionally well for me this summer... I put in place one of the hardest training schedules to date, with a long run of around 17-20 miles every Sunday... but I was not feeling well... and I really couldn't differentiate was it from training or not? Thinking back...I suppose I should have gone to the doctors but then again... he would probably tell me not to run... I had been suffering quite horribly with a chronic lower back and hip pain since the beginning of the year but concluded it was a combination of stress, crappy bed, and increased training... and then it happened... a 4 day spell that I thought was food poisoning..and then a re-occurrence of that “...