Still at it...

Long time no post. I’ve been battling injury for years now… the same injury, too: improper hip alignment due to over training in college – THEN, ignoring that issue and overtraining for a few more years = years of not being able to train due to improper balence/muscle firing/overall movement which inevitably leads to injury. This is essentially my fourth year of doing corrective physical therapy. There is hardly a day that goes by where I do not do some type of PT: usually an hour+ a day… often far, far more. For the past ten months I’ve ignored fitness to focus solely on fixing my body. I’ve averaged 3 runs a week, usually 3 miles each. I’m posting now because I am optimistic enough to say there have been recent moments of breakthrough. I can run a solid 30 a week now with a percentage of miles feeling genuinely good, as in: my body feels like it is working the way it should. Considering how long it has been, this is a new, salvatory feeling (when it happens, that is). I’m also, for the record, moving out of the Pioneer Valley (tomorrow actually). I’ll be commuting from Pittsfield to work in Amherst for the last two weeks of summer and then, (and this is the big move), I’m moving to the UK to go to grad school for acting. (Had to try something new with all those free hours I would have been training)… Anyway, the point of this entry is to post my latest Upper Ridge/Mt. Orient times. I have not given up. Times are below with some of my more memorable performances. Injuries began in 2009.

2007, 6/16       1:15:57            MT WASH, 29^th
2008, 6/1         15:10               5K, RHODY, 10^th
2008, 6/8         18:18               6K, WORCESTER FIRE., 1^st
2008, 6/21       1:08:05            MT WASH, 27^th place
2008, 7/29       52:54               10 MILE, YANKEE, 8^th
2008, 11/23     25:16               5 MILE, SLATTERY’S, 3^rd
2009, 2/13       4:17.57            1 MILE, BU VAL., 45^th
2009, 6/20       1:11:47            MT WASH, 26^th
2009, 6/27       13:43
2009, 7/5         12:18
2009, 7/11       10:54
2009, 8/20       10:21
2009, 8/27       9:59
2009, 9/28       9:58
2009, 10/17     9:59
2010, 3/18       9:49
2010, 4/11       9:09 (BEST), w/Jon Korhonen
2010, 4/24       *****BIKE CRASH*****
2010, 10/30     11:15
2010, 12/18     10:23
2011, 4/23       10:43
2011, 6/1         10:50
2011, 6/18       1:13:26            MT WASH, 27^th
2011, 6/26       10:28
2011, 7/2         9:45
2011, 7/9         9:43
2011, 7/16       9:14
2012, 2/23       10:50
2012, 3/18       10:09
2012, 6/18       10:42
2013, 6/3         10:50
2013, 6/21       10:21
2013, 6/29       10:01, w/Andy McCarron