Melissa - Vain Triathlete

Nineteen hours in an ER can bring even the toughest of souls to their knees. An emergency trip to the ER on Friday afternoon after Kathy lost site in her right eye accompanied by a very bad headache did just that. These two symptoms can point to a number of ailments however within our realm of knowledge the most probable cause that came to mind was that of MS or a stroke. Yeah, we were a little frightened. Thankfully a stroke was quickly ruled out. She does not currently have MS either. We think she has Optic Neuritis. She should eventually gain site back in her right eye. We will know more when we finally, and I mean finally, get to talk to a department head on Wednesday morning. On Friday and Saturday all of the Neurologists just happened to be across the country at a conference leaving NOBODY in Boston to properly read Kathy's MRI. My bawling in the ER and curt words with the resident doctors on duty did nothing to accomplish what we needed. After seeing 13 resident doctors, 1 r...

So, here I am training for the Inaugural Chili Half Marathon in Historical Newton MA.. Yeah! I'm getting more and more excited about running this race. I was going to be a good little athlete and forgo anymore racing in an attempt to alleviate any lingering need to rest my brain as well as the bod. Well, I am going to do that just as soon as I run the Chili Half Marathon on 11/15. I was on the fence about doing this half in response to my ups and downs I have been experiencing. That is until I couldn't get INTO the race. This race closed out earlier this month! When I found out it had closed I emailed the race director to see if I could get in. She was nice enough to put me on her waiting list. It only took a few days later to receive the OK to send in the application plus $55. I was thinking I would just do this race in order to keep the weight off until I go on vacation in November to Aruba.. I would, after all, be on the beach a lot and I certainly don't want to p...

After a very bad week of hemming and hawing I ran the Tufts 10k in Boston on Monday, a holiday for many. This is the largest all womens race in all of the US. There over 6000 women. It is a very spirited race. I first ran this race when I was 14 years old with my mom. I have a picture from that race that I will post later. After I scan it. As much as I love this race, because I know the course and it's flat, I was FLOORED by  the long lines that occurred this year. It was really bad. We had to fight through a sea of women to look up our number then try to duck out of that mess to go stand in line for at least 45 minutes to pick up our number. I actually got up the desk and asked for the wrong number after waiting so long in line. My brain forgot it was 1080 and asked for 1090 which had already been picked up. "I don't have your number. Are you sure someone else didn't pick up your number for you?" The woman was sure she didn't have my number. I stood th...

Quick question before blogging.. What happened to spell check on this new Blogger editer??? Mindfullness: It may take me a while sometimes but eventually I DO get it.  I finally GOT it this week. I finally GOT that I really DO need more time off  now that I'm an old fart.  I  stupidly THOUGHT that I would cruise through my recovery after Pumpkinman so I planned 3 extra races to round off the season. That, come to find out,  was a mistake.  I will finish my Tufts 10k on Monday and that will be it for a while. Only two weeks after feeling ggggggggggggggreat, I feel RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROTTEN. Thankfully it only took me THREE DAYS of agonizing over missed workouts to realize that it's time for a LOOOOONG break from training. It's time to put away the schedule and just enjoy all that life has to offer. No pressure.  Run, swim and bike as I feel. You know the story..  Fighting off negativce thoughts, skipping workouts, tired...