Derailed

What started out as a promising 2012 running year has quickly become an inury riddled year.  Returning to the 1,000 mile club for this year is looking rather bleak.  Things were going smoothly up to Easter weekend.  A non running condition had me not running the week following Easter. 

I returned to the roads a week later feeling good.  The next week I ran 2 7 mile weekday runs.  I felt like my pelvis was out of alignment the whole time during both of these runs.  Rather than listening to my body, I pushed through the runs in an effort to get in miles for my Kansas 1/2 marathon coming up in a little over a week.

I haven't run yet this month.  I started seeing a chiropractor a couple of weeks ago and have begun to feel some relief but things still don't feel right.  I will make the trip to Kansas and run in my 46th state; I have nonrefundable everything booked for this trip.....hotwire air, car and prepaid hotel and race entry fee. 

My hope is that this chiropractic treatment will get my back and legs loose to where I can return to running pain free the rest of the year.  I have a trip out west to run around Crater Lake in August and need to be ready for an altitude and elevation course.