<p>Hi All - Nice to see Seemomgo and the rest of you of course....</p>
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<p>Yesterday at this time I was trying to decide if today should be my rest day, and if I should run my race-day-eve workout on Friday, or, if I should run lightly today and rest tomorrow. As fate might have it, last night before bed, my wife alerted my to the fact that we had a leaky Hot Water tank in the basement. So I took the morning off from work and replaced some of the plumbing coming into the tank, and now we're up and running and my legs are not. So it was an easy decision after all. I made it into work by 12:30 but running time is 12:00, so today is my first rest day in two weeks. I'm not sure how that happened, because the last VRAA round ended a week and a half ago. Must have been momentum. </p>
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<p>At about the time yesterday that I was musing about running or not running today, I started to get a pain in my chest and back. Once the paranoia ("am I having a heart attack?") subsided, I realized I've done something to my left trapezius and my left pectoral muscle. It could be the strength training I've been doing, though the weights have been very light; it could be the sledge hammer I was swinging on Saturday at the CC Invitational, setting up the chute and crowd control fencing, but that was 5 days ago now, and yesterday was the first I noticed it; or it could be from doing planks on my left side for too long. The last couple of times I did them I felt like it was not my abs or obliques failing, but my shoulder, that was causing me to collapse before "time was up". So now I am a little anxious because I have a 5k race on Saturday along with about a half dozen of the co-workers that I've been training for the past 4 months, and I don't know what breathing heavily is going to be like when just breathing deeply at my desk hurts pretty good. Maybe it's nothing a couple of Tylenols and a can of whoopass can't fix come race day.</p>