Saturday Run

Mar 13, 2010

This morning was an absolutely beautiful morning. Last night started with a rough bought of pancreatitus. For those of you that don't know what this is, the doctors describe pancreatitus as appendecitus in the upper right torso. When you are having an attack, it can radiate to your back, cause shortness of breath and you are pretty much doubled over for a few days. In fact, if you are diagnosed with pancreatitus the treatment is typically an addmit into the hospital and an IV and Deloted (pain med) for anywhere from 4-7 days.

I am sharing this not as a pitty party but to help describe why I could have justified to myself to stay indoors this morning. Yoru mind is strange, if you say you will be happy today, most likely you will. If you think life is hard, it is and if you say that you are too sick to run, your body will respond in kind. So the mental struggle of getting up and running almost 11 miles today was a battle won.

The challenge with running with this is that pancreatitus treatment is basically fasting and liquid diet. I'm about 70 percent liquids for the rest of my life but when running and being big, you cannot take in enough nutrition to sustain your activity. So overall, today was a victory. I am pleased that I can come home from a run, stretch, shower, grab a protein drink and feel like I haven't even exercised at all. Life is great and couldn't be happier (except if I were 60lbs lighter... but that is coming shortly).

Happy Saturday.

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