BORING update and Plan B

I went to see my masseuse today. She found more issues around the knee than just the Medial Pattellar Retinaculum. After a good 10min discussion, she suspected, then found a very bruised (and sore) abductor under the MPR. Dang she's good! She worked the crap out of my quad, leg, abductor and even my glutes, which over-compensates due to the opposite location's issue.

Not embarrassed to say that I was squealing like a pig and jumping around like a fish out of water. Can't think of anyone that would have lied there indifferent to the work abuse being handed to my leg.

In other news, I do need to plan for OPTION B, which is NO BOSTON FOR ME. This is not the year for me to run Boston as a pleasure run, so if i don't think i have a good shot at a sub 3 hour marathon, there's no point in spending all the money to go there. I can re-use my plane ticket for some other future flight, and I can hopefully find someone to take my hotel room. More importantly, i can also save the cash on food, drink, taxis, etc.

The biggest issue is the qualifying time, as I don't know when i would run another marathon and get the qualifier before it sells out for next year.

As such, after some research on the Boston side, I'm quite happy to see that the deadline to defer to the following year is actually the day before the race! I'd still have to pay my entry fee again, but at least i don't have to travel out to some far off land to run a marathon before Oct 30th'ish (about when the race sold out this year). The time I'd need is a comfortable pace for me, but you never know what happens on race day. On top of that, I know I have no desire to train hard for an early fall asphalt race over the summer.

Now I just need to look into what the airline rules are to be able to re-use the flight credits at a future date, and that will have to be my GO/NO GO deadline.

P.S. Next time I have an injury, i'm going to Lisa first, THEN the doctor. The doctor is great, but Lisa's hands are magic. Magic beats science every time.