Ouch, too warm

The past couple days I had some pain in the lower left portion of my back.  By last evening the pain seemed to have migrated upward to just below my left shoulder blade.  It’s rather odd.  I woke up this morning in bed with that area hurting pretty damn bad.

Right now I have it under control with some Advil.  My immediate diagnosis would be I simply pulled something yesterday at the gym since I was doing a bunch of pull ups, including some different, more strenuous variations.  Hopefully it subsides quickly.

So next week is our scheduled trip to visit my dad in western PA.  One of the things that we were looking forward to is getting to see the dogs play in the snow.  Well we checked out the initial forecast for next week and this sounds weird,  but, it’s too warm.  The forecast temps all week look to be in the low 40’s, absolutely frigid by Florida standards but too toasty for snow to stick around.  I guess we’ll see how things look closer to our departure time.  Regardless of the temps it will be fun.

This weekend I have van maintenance to perform for the trip.  We also are going to the Pet Lover’s Ball again Saturday night.  This is the same event where we got the Aspen package last year.  Don’t look for a repeat performance this year.  It’s bad timing having a ball on Saturday night since I have to get up before the roosters Sunday morning to time another race.

Depending on how this pain in my back thing goes, I may or may not be doing a long training run again this weekend.  I would really like to up the distance to 11 miles so 13.1 doesn’t feel so hard when it comes.