Go figure. Why is it that I always get hurt just before a big race? Coming off of a very pleasant experience at Fort2Base, I felt in good form. But on the way (ironically) to marathon packet pickup with Teresa last Friday, my back started twinging. Ran my 12 miles on Saturday anyway. By today, the pain was so bad that it was distracting. Off I go to Dr. Sam, the chiropractor.
While lying there hooked up to the electrodes, I started wondering to myself, "how many races have I done?" I'm an obsessive record-keeper with a terrible memory, so I decided to go home and put all of my handwritten logs (the races only) onto an Excel spreadsheet.
Here's what I came up with:
10 Milers (Soldier Field) = 8 years in a row!
11.5 Milers = 1 (Fort2Base this year, but I'll definitely be back!)
3.45-3.5 miles = 6 times (Chase Corporate Challenges and the R2B 5 Nautical Miler)
5K = 51 of them!!
8K = 9 of them!! (mostly Shamrock Shuffles)
10K = surprisingly, only 2
Half Marathons = 5
Marathons = 1 and a half (completed the marathon in 2006, deliberately DNF in 2005 due to injury, but did 14.5 miles of it.)
It's crazy! No wonder my body is falling apart.
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