No go today

I realize running is an impact sport (body-impact, not collision-impact) as you take about 1,500 steps per mile.  All that impact means I'm never going to feel perfectly fine.  I have a strong threshold to run with pains and tend to outlast them, so that's who I am and what I do.  

Being a fan of not publicly commenting about pains, I tend to really limit talking about them unless they're a 9 or 10 on the 1-10 pain-o-meter.   (9 is a substantial pain i still choose to run on, 10 is a no go.)  All else isn't talked about.

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I was REALLY looking forward to a trail run this morning, but I'm a no go.

Not only am I hurting, but the weather is kind of blah... wet heavy mist, and in the 30's, which just doesn't sound appetizing for a simple recovery run on the trails, but my back is freaking killing me.  Seeing that I have a 40 mile run next Saturday in rocky Bandera, we'll go ahead and call it a day with 70 miles for the week.  5-6 more miles is not gonna make much of a difference.

Earlier this week, I did something to my upper back.  Kind of to the side of the spine on the left, up about... middle of shoulder blades location.  Not sure if i tweaked it while running, or napping in a strange position on the couch, or a funky dream sending me into a jolt in my sleep.  Regardless where it came from, it hurts enough to cause the not-so-pleasant weather to help me decide to not go hop on the greenbelt and the rocky uneven surface.

I also don't like to, and tend to almost always abstain from taking pain medication, so I don't plan on taking any.  Maybe an anti-inflammatory later today if it just doesn't improve, but not pain medication.  Are those one and the same?

However, I've got some leftover Pina Colada mix in the fridge and all the necessary ingredients to make bloody mary's this morning, so i may numb the pain with alcohol instead because that's a perfectly acceptable strategy.  haha