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Location:

Vestavia,AL,USA

Member Since:

May 31, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Marathon Top 10 Finishes: 7 Bridges ('15), Utah Valley ('13), Salt Lake City ('08), Top of Utah ('07), and St. Louis ('04). Ran around the equator (24901.55) in 4,388 days.

Personal Records
Marathon 2:39 (SLC '08)
1/2 Marathon 1:12.30 (Provo River, aided '08)
10K 34:16 (Track, sea level '00)
10K 33:15 (Des 10K, aided '08)
8K 25:32 (Crack of Dawn, aided '13)
5K 16:44 (Track, sea level '00)
5K 16:07 (Running of the Leopards, aided '12)
 

Short-Term Running Goals:

NYC Marathon November 3, 2019 done 

London Marathon October 3, 2021 done

Tokyo Marathon March 3, 2024!!!

And my largest challenge to date, raise $20,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of my cancer survivorship and in memory of those lost to blood cancer...
DONE! $26,403.70

https://pages.lls.org/tnt/al/london2021/awende

Long-Term Running Goals:

Enjoy being a Masters Runner.

Get under 3 hours one more time...

Personal:

Grew up outside Chicago and joined the blog while I lived in Salt Lake City. Now living outside Birmingham. I am married with two daughters. Wife thinks I'm crazy for doing marathons. And yes I am crazy I'm a scientist for a living...

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Knee a little more sore. Most likely the swimming and not the dancing as we only danced three songs. But not too bad. I'm looking forward to trying to run again this week.

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Thank you to those who are still checking in despite the full basket of eggs. Maybe I could have a big breakfast cook off at my house this weekend?...

So here are the findings of the exams.

1. The x-ray the previous week revealed an os acetabuli


2. The MRI from Friday revealed: a) mild osteoarthritis, b) degenerative anterosuperior labral tear, and c) a prominent anterior femoral head neck bump and neutral acetabular version, predisposing to femoroacetabular impingement.


There is a lot of information on the web about this and below is one quick explanation with a good link to additional info. The arthritis does not bother the doctor at this time and he said surgery may be required as outlined in the link below. The next appointment is with the surgeon on March 24th. In the meantime the current ortho said I can run as pain allows... I'll focus on stretching and strength training to get myself in as good as shape as possible before a surgery and just have to wait to see wait the second physician says.

WEB INFO:

1. Os acetabuli are bits of extra bone around the rim of the acetabulum (the hip socket). 2. Dysplastic bump at the lateral femoral head neck junction suggesting femoral acetabular impingement means there is an atypical (dysplastic) bump at the area where the head of the femur meets its neck that suggests that there is an impingement. That means that the ball of the femur (the head) doesn't have full range of motion within the socket and damage can occur when the extra bit of bone hits the cartilage surrounding the rim of the socket. This causes pain and can lead to arthritis. Sometimes it can be fixed with debridement (scraping the excess bone away). The link below has a nice diagram that shows the relationship of the parts to one another.

http://www.hss.edu/conditions_Hip-Mobility-Arthroscopy-Patient's-Guide-Femoro-Acetabular-Impingement.asp


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I will have to say that the mental aspect of this injury is 100X more difficult than the physical. My hip felt fine during the commute run into work today but almost every step aggravated my knee. Another super busy day at work. 5 of the last 10 days I've gone back at night, I know I'm compensating for the not running. At least I do it in a productive manner. 

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Another busy day. Just some stretching, PT and light weights.

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Commute walk. It is harder to walk in slop than run in slop. We woke to >1in snow but it was gone by the time I got home. Knee still more sore than the hip. PT and strength.

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I'm still not convinced that the labral tear is the whole story for my leg pain but here is an interesting take on the surgery the doctor talked about for me.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/special_segments&id=7196725

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Today was a good and bad day. It was great in that my wife raced the farthest she has ever raced and my daughter ran a full mile. It was bad in that it finally really sunk in how I've not been running. It was what it is. 3 miles walking and my exercises at least the day was perfect outside for our activities and I found out that our sushi restaurant of choice is keeping $1 nigiri and 1/2 price rolls through the end of May!

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