Run on February 3rd, 2010

Distance: 7.9 miles
Time: 70 minutes

Route: 3rd Ave to City Creek Canyon. South on Bonneville to E street, then back.Finish with State Street to So Temple, to M Street.

Whoa. Lastnight was nuts. The longest run since the surgery. HOLD UP. Let me explain my surgery right quick:

After I ran a half in Rexburg, Idaho, I started experiencing some major pain in my anterior tibialis. At first i could run through it but i decided I should quit because my foot and lower leg got completely numb. I went to the doctor said "You've got hernias all up out your fascia!" So i decided to get referred to a sports med doctor who diagnosed me with Compartment syndrome, only after he stuck a meat thermometer sized needle into my lef to test my pressure. (i dunno what they measured in, psi? alls I knows is that normal resting pressure is about 15, and exertion pressure is about 30. My resting was 40 and my exertion was 140. Ya, i know, my muscles were bursting out of my leg. Ps I don't know why this is all in parenthesis.)

There were only 2 options: stop running or cut my legs open. So i chose the wonderful bilateral comparment realease surgery wherein they cut open my legs and removed the fascia(muscle covering) on four of my compartments. After 2 weeks I could walk with pain. After 5 I could bike. After 7 I began to run again.

-my legs 1 week post op-

It's now been over 3 months and I am running like a champ. There's still minor pain in my ankle and around my incisions but nothing serious at all. It's taken quite a bit of physical and mental exersion for me to get to this point but I am back! 8 miles yesterday. I'm completely on track to run the Teton Dam Marathon in june. Everyone get excited.