Rhett

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Location:

Lake Havasu City,AZ,

Member Since:

Sep 29, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

23 marathons

6 Bostons (2007-2011, 2017)

3 Half Ironmans

2 Ironmans

3 50 Milers

1 Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Marathon PR:

     2:59:00 St. George 2008

     2:58:03 Boston 2010

 1/2 Marathon PR:

     1:25:41  Havasu Half 2009

     1:24:09 Painter's St.George 2010

 Half Ironman PR:

      5:25:02  HITS Havasu 2014

5K PR:

       18:23  LHC Turkey Trot 2014

        18:22  LHC Turkey Trot 2017

50 mile PR:

        7:56:14 Avalon50 2016

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break 3 hours again

Doing it a Boston would be sweet!

It was sweet!

UPCOMING RACES

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun!

 

Personal:

Married

4 kids

Optometrist

 

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I started out jumping rope this morning as I waited for the sun to come up.  While jumping rope my shoe came untied. As I bent over to tie it, my gimpy hamstrig full on popped. OUCH! I was mad, so I jumped rope as fast an hard as I could to get my anger out.  After finishing 30 minutes I had worked out my anger... mostly, and went for a 10 mile bike ride. 

During the ride my chain popped off and I had to put it back on.  Once again if felt frustration, but tried to work through it. As I arrived home I remembered that I had low pressure in one of my truck tires, so I parked my bike leaning up on the opening of the garage door so it would be out the way as I filled my tires with air.  I started filling the tires and the compressor made a weird noise. Next thing I knew it was smoking and shut down.  Guess I burned it out... more inner turmoil.  I disgustedly put the compressor away and headed inside pushing the garage door button on the way in to shut the garage door.  Heading to the kitchen I remembered my bike was propped up under the door. I turned back, opened the door and pressed the garage door button right before the garage door came crushing down on my bike... wheh, dodged a bullet.  I had grabbed the door frame as I swung out to press the button and slam! The door is on a spring hing, my hand had just been crushed in the door.  That pain made my hamstring pain seem like nothing. It is swollen and hurts still. I hope I didn't break anything in it.  This time though, I didn't really get mad, I just thought that at least my day couldn't get much worse. It's only 9 am. I hope everthing else today goes much smoother.

Comments
From LeMire on Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:30:08 from 67.213.174.99

Rough day maybe you should just stay home!! At least it cannot get much worse.

From Rhett on Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:28:37 from 24.121.0.8

Jeff, Dale. Fortunately the day did not get any worse. Hopefully my hammy will start healing better now that it fully popped. I didn't need that strand of it anyways. :)

From Smooth on Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:17:09 from 67.2.120.164

O my goodness! What a tough start of the day! Ouchies!!! Do be kind to yourself and hope your hammie and hand heal fast!

From Tom Slick on Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:20:04 from 168.179.157.113

Ouch! If it weren't for bad luck this day you wouldn't have and any luck!!! Hows the Hammie?

From Burt on Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:08:26 from 97.117.253.132

This is the best blog entry I've ever read.

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