I'll write more about my Philly experience in later posts, but thought I'd share some fun health-related stories. My health has been fairly good this year on the whole. Except for the fact that I’m down one tooth since August (fractured, then extracted), my body appears pretty intact.
I visited my doctor last month for a physical— it’s actually been a few years and I thought it was time to tell him that I run, albeit terribly.
"You do LSD," he remarked with a grin.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Long, Slow, Distance running- it’s what we call it in our profession," he quickly clarified.
I like my doctor.
The other funny story from the same doctor's appointment is that I learned I am down about a half inch from last time I was measured a few years back. Figures that I am old enough to start shrinking! Let me just tell you that once I get my wish-listed Teeter inversion table, I'll be reversing that trend!
What makes this particularly amusing to me is that one Monday morning, several weeks before the appointment, I came into work and asked a couple colleagues do I look taller? Of course I did not, but I explained to them that the previous day during my long run I had a strange sensation, one I'd never had before or since that time. For about a mile or so out of the run, I distinctly felt that I was running taller than usual. As if my posture was completely upright and I was viewing the trail from a slightly higher perspective. Now I understand that perhaps I was having a memory of times from a taller past.
Soon I will get some sleep before waking at 5:00 to get dressed and walk to the starting area for the 7:00 race start. With the excitement, I don't always sleep well the night before these races! But it is true to say that finishing another marathon will be a great gift tomorrow. A nice wrap-up to a long summer and fall.
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