Run Fatboy Retired

Friday I again attended spinning class. I was leaving the club and the sun was coming up and I was done working out and heading to work for the day. I looked around and thought to myself all is good.

I was for the first time in a long time finishing a workout and was not in pain. I have not had any real pain now for a few days. Then again it has now been almost 2 weeks since I have last run. I am beginning to get lazy and losing the mental drive to run. I am beginning to like spinning class more and more though. I am a bit afraid I will be done running as in the past I quit for months and years at a time. I am a bit sad at the prospect.

Today spent the day with my daughter at the ball field. She is in a softball tournament this weekend again. She again played very well and I love watching my girl out in the field. She is growing into such a beautiful young woman, but still at the age you can see the fun and excitement in her as a little girl. While at the Ball Park I needed to get something out of the car. I took off at a jog and instantly my stomach went into pain. That kind of bummed me out a bit.

Tonight I joined 15 other runners to see the movie Run Fatboy Run. It was a funny movie and led me to a bit of motivation. I thought maybe I need to buy that movie when it comes out in DVD and use it for motivation later when I get well.

After the movie we all went to one of the gals house to have Mexican food and to hang out and talk. I announced my running retirement and got a bunch of slack. Everything to no you are not you have tried to retire for years to are you serious. I am partially serious. In the end it was a great night with good friends.

Some of them are into biking so a concept came up I might need to think through. Spend the money on the MRI to find out what I already know. OR spend the money on a road bike and take up cycling for a while to keep my exercise some and see if I can run again in a couple years. In any case I am a bit depressed about this pain and I do want to go run and not running and hanging with my friends is getting to me.