ALS Research at Wake Forest School of Medicine

The Blazeman Foundation just posted this on their website, and it sounds very promising. I wanted to share so that donors to the Foundation can see what type of research their money is going directly to support! Thanks to everyone for your generosity!!

Letter from the Wake Forest School of Medicine

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Promising Improvement

Just a quick update - the shins are improving.  I've been resting and icing and Advil-ing, and it seems to be making a huge difference.  I worry about the fact that I haven't done much with my legs in a week, but I plan to start back slow this week and see how it goes.  I do know one thing - I REALLY don't feel like a ninja right now...

In other news, The Ninja Challenge sent out an obstacle map. It's not terribly informative, but it's more info than I had before. I do believe they try to make it sound a lot scarier than it actually is. I sure hope so, anyway.

Less than 3 weeks... aaaahh!

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Panic

My newest obstacle: shin splints.  I don't know if the muscle fatigue I had before was related, but now I'm having full-on stabbing pain in my shins all the time.  It was really bad on Friday after a short run on Thursday evening, then it got better over the weekend, and yesterday it started bothering me again.  I'm wearing my compression sleeves a lot, icing, taking Advil, and resting (i.e. no running until this goes away).  I tried to do some stretching, but that seemed to irritate it, so I'm just going to be easy on them and leave them alone.  I've heard this is common, so I hope it will heal up and go away so I can continue.  Part (most?) of me is terrified that this won't go away, and I'm screwed and won't be able to do my race.  One day at a time... if it's not better by next week, I'll check out a PT who can hopefully help me fix it and prevent it from happening again.

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