Yesterday was my birthday-yay! So after last year's disappointing birthday I decided this year I would take the day off of work and try to enjoy the day as much as possible. It turned out to be a great day. I drove my daughter to camp and my husband to work then found a parking spot close to the waterfront and enjoyed running back and forth along the 4km stretch before heading into the downtown to finish up 10km. The boardwalk was somewhat busy with cruise ship passengers and local day care centers sightseeing, but it wasn't to the point it was annoying or anything. It was cute to see what the tourists deemed picture-worthy in the area as I ran around them.
I should explain why I wasn't on a trail, which, trust me, would have been preferable. The province is currently sitting under a trail ban. It's horrible and it sucks but with multiple huge forest fires out of control it is the easiest and safest thing to do. So, for the next 2 weeks at least all of the HRM runners will be invading the streets of the HRM. Boohahaha.
The acid reflux I had the other day has thankfully passed, although I'm still a bit queasy and have some gas (burping) issues but overall I feel a lot better. I took half of a naproxen pill yesterday morning and it certainly helped my knee make it pain-free through the 10km run. So I guess I'll scale back the pill to a half portion, once a day, as opposed to two full sized a day as I was originally prescribed, and see how this goes. Going two days without one sucked, and I was really surprised how fast my knee pain/swelling returned. Clearly I need to take something for this swelling but going back to the doctor and playing the medication game just takes too much time and I'm not a human petri-dish. So I'll keep with this routine until it either doesn't work for me any longer or I have some time miraculously added to my life to spend sitting in a doctor's office.
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