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Hey, look! I ran in a race! :D
This morning I met up with Lara and Ed for the Silks and Satins 5K in Saratoga. It was wonderful to see Lara again and to finally meet Ed, which was odd because I never met him while we both lived in Michigan, then I [...]

I was planning on writing about how the last few days have gone with cutting back the calories, but Juls totally stole all my thunder and said everything I was going to say! Go take a look at her blog and you’ll see what I mean. Oh, but ignore the part about training [...]

I ran tonight, despite the doc’s suggestion.  No back pain while I ran which was good.  We had anice low humidity day today which was pretty unusual.  I skipped dinner and headed out for a quick 3 miler past the cows again.  Sometimes I get a tune stuck in my head.   This time it was [...]

“Unremarkable…that’s what you are…”
The radiologist says my xray are “unremarkable”.  Thanks.  Well, yeah, thanks because there’s nothing wrong with the bones in my back.
“Frontal lateral and oblique views of the lumbar spine show no evidence of a fracture.  The vertical body heights appear fairly well preserved. No spondylolishesis or scoliosis is seen.  No osteophyte formation [...]

I found that I cannot see when people put YouTube links on their page. I have Firefox, but the problem only occurs on the laptop. Using firefox from another computer works fine. The freaky thing is, that it doesn’t even appear in the page source. Like its not even there at [...]

I went to the doc yesterday, and got the same story as always.  She said its muscle strain (with some long medical name) and that I need to rest, take a TON of ibuprofen, and do stretches.  Oh and I got a referral for PT, but it won’t be the same without Shannon.  :(
I asked [...]

These are ACTUAL photos of Jon’s new neighbours.

Pop.
Did you hear a pop sound this morning around 6:30 AM EDT? It was me.
More precisely, my back.
I leaned over, ever so gently, to pick up a piece of paper that was setting about knee high on a pile of boxes.
Pop.
That was the feeling in my lower back. I always heard about [...]

I didn’t run last night.  I was all set to go and went downstairs in the basement to get a shirt and SPLASH!  Water on the floor.  My parents’ hot water heater has finally sprung a leak, someplace under the covering.  No way to fix it.  So I spent last night finding a water heater [...]