Amazing how quickly time can pass, I have not written in months even though there were a few times I felt like I should.
So I a nutshell, JFK came and went, another finish to add to the collection of ten. It was my slowest ever at just a hair over eleven hours, frustrating as a fall on the AT screwed up my left knee. The damage was not apparent at first but after twenty seven miles my knee flared up. The discomfort started a chain of events in my GI track which pushed me into four "comfort" stations (nothing comfortable about those stops) costing me probably twenty to thirty minutes. Oh well. Many thanks to my kind friends for their role in helping me train and in pacing me to the finish. I doubt I could have done this one alone.
My dependence on the pain medication had not diminished but after seeing my oncologist we are trying Gabapentin again. The early returns are in, it seems to help and I believe I'm heading on the right track.
So what does 2015 hold in store? We'll there are no certainties in life but I'm the eternal optimist. Saturday I'll run a 25K, later a couple of ten mile races and then a race called the "Frozen Snot", a course supposedly as unpleasant as the race's name. February I may do a 50K followed by Terrapin Mountain in March followed by my first mini-triathlon in April.
Good to be talking about races instead of Cancer, oh, about that ........ last round of blood letting, prodding and CAT scan show no trace. Three years clean.
Happy New Year All
Mike
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