First Things First!

On New Year's Day 2005, I made a resolution to run the Bay to Breakers in mid May. That meant that I had four and a half months to get into shape to run 7.5 miles in hilly SFO. This was the start of my career as a flaky runner. I ended up running the Bay to Breakers in decent time, and I have since continued on doing longer distances including two half marathons in the second half of 2005, three Relays in 2006, 2008 and 2009, and two full marathons (The San Francisco Marathon) in 2008 and 2009. I have picked up multitudes of running injuries over this period, and I have understood and overcome all these running injuries over time. Over the years, I have had successive issues with the right lower back, the right ankle, the left hamstring, the left ITB (short for ilio-tibial band), and the right ITB. My journey towards becoming the complete flaky runner continues with my latest niggle - irritation in my right hamstring. This current niggle isnt that bad, since I have had hamstring issues before and I know how to work around them. In fact I ran my second SF marathon this year with this injury. The pursuit for perfection in understanding, preventing and overcoming running injuries continues on!