Journey from 238.5 lbs to 2:38:30

north on jrt

south on jrt

Ran down Avon.  Went to Chiro right before race hoping to have a semi working body for wasatch back and alleviate some of the pain in my right leg, mainly in adductor, but also in both front and back of hip.  After visit felt pretty decent, though I could tell within a few minutes the adjustment hadn't held and I would be in trouble eventually during the weekend.

 The first leg has about a mile climb up avon then a 3 mile decent of around 1200 feet then some more less steep decent for 2 miles.  

We started later in the day than we have the past two years so we had just caught our first roadkill on leg five shortly before our runner got to me at the exchange.  There was also an ultra team that was really close to us at this point as well.  He ended up being right behind our guy at then exchange so as I headed up the hill, I thought at a pretty good pace I was surprised to hear him catch up to me and stay right behind me the last part of the climb.  And as I bombed down the dirt road he kept right on my heels for the three mile decent.  At about the start of the fourth mile I noticed that my left heel was on fire and the skin on about a 2 inch patch of my heel was sliding around already.  I started trying to compensate my gait to maintain pace while staying off my heel while still dropping at a steep angle.  This threw my pelvis/sacrum way out of wack and caused great pain my 2nd two legs.  As we came off the hill onto the pavement I pulled away from the ultra guy and came into the exchange.  I had the aid station put on some moleskin, which I'm pretty sure made the blister spread even farther out under where the moleskin was placed.  I was hoping that the heel skin would readhere by the time I had to run again.  Fortunately my next run was up hill and I could stay off of the heel for the most part.

1 6:37   for a +108

2 5:21 -425

3 5:11 -507

4 5:28 -293

5 6:06 -57

6 6:18 -74

.3 1:52 +3 

As I was getting warmed up for this leg my hip/pelvis/right leg were very tight, walking was very painful, as well as the left heel was on fire.  I just hoped things would loosen up as I went so it wouldn't be so painful.  I like this nice 8 mile climb.  There are usually lots of tail lights to run down to keep the mind occupied.  There were less than normal, but enough to keep me motivated to keep going.  The most painful part of the two days of running was after the 8 mile climb they had moved the exchange from the road down into the park, so I had to run down some steep road/trail into the park and between the heel and the hip I was hoping someone would hit me with a car to make the pain stop.  Ran the 8.2 in 59:28  Around 15-20 seconds a mile slower than last year.

The last leg was a little 2.5 mile flat run in Heber.  15:30, 6:22 pace  Still very painful, was almost done by the time things loosened up enough for the pain to mostly recede.  Was very glad to be done.   

After finishing the leg I noticed a chiropractor doing adjustments next to the massage people.  After talking to the chiro and him doing a few muscle tests he determined that my issue with the right side of my body was due to my right brain being turned off, so he ran a red and white vertical stripped piece of paper in front of my eyes a few times to turn on my right brain.  Interestingly I noticed some improvement over the next two days, but nothing lasting.   My right brain must be atrophied.

1 7:08 -8

2 6:49 +27

3 7:02 +97

4 7:04 +44

5 7:17 +76

6 7:10 +47

7 7:56 +214

8 7:39 +108

.2 1:18 -99

1 6:24

2 6:23

.43 2:42