It has been awhile since I posted as my training has been non existant.  I struggled at the Twilight 5K because of some pain in my foot which has been getting worse.  I finally went to the doctor and have found out that I have a bone spur on my heel and this has left me with three options:

1. drop out of the half marathon

2. bite on a silver bullet for 13 miles and run the half

3. walk the half and let Dara beat me to the beer…….

 

Option #1 is not really an option so I hope that the medication the doc put me on helps and allows me to start running again sometime soon.  Option #3 is not really an option either because us mexicans will do anything for free beer, so biting on a silver bullet for 13 miles may be the plan…….

Now for some scoop on the medication I am taking – one of them is helping to reduce the inflammation/swelling in my heel/cankle area.  To do this the fluid must be released from the body in some manner……….yesterday morning I was stuck on I-10 at 5 am as a semi had caught fire near Laplace.  Well, about 5:30 am I felt this really strong urge to relieve some of the swelling and when I looked in my truck there was not a urinal to be found anywhere.  I looked at the vehicles around me and it seemed as though there were thousands of Camry’s everywhere and everyone knows that a Camry is a woman’s car and so relieving myself outside of my truck became less of a plan as well.  About the time I thought I was going to die an embarassing death from drowning in my own urine, a gentleman with a 44 ounce styrofoam cup appeared – there is a God!!!! 

 

                                                   

 

I am sure that many people were wondering why I sat in my truck with such a HUGE smile on my face while sitting on a bridge for 4 hours.  So, 66 ounces later, Paco was on his way to work, and by the way, the swelling in my cankle is going away too………like I said, there is a God!!!