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Marathoners I have my 5th marathon scheduled for October 19th but Friday (August 14) I fell off my bike and have a non displaced radial head fracture (bone which connects wrist to elbow, at the elbow).

Saw the fracture clinic today and they cut off the cast the ER doc gave me. He said I can try to jog again around the week of Sept 8-12 depending how I feel and I don't necessarily need to not run the marathon. So far this cycle I got up to 17 miles as my long run and now I'm just walking each day, will restart lower body strength (machines and body weight as I can't load my left hand or grip a bar) this week as well.

If I can get an 18-20 miler in by September 30th do you think it's salvageable, with the goal now of just finishing? I've already given away my September 13th half marathon bib, I am ok to let it go but I'd much rather not.

What would you all do?

Injury: non displaced radial head fracture. Fell off my bike. Clean break should heal up within 6-8 weeks maybe less. Waiting for an appointment with an osteopath. Currently my left arm is in a cast armpit to hand, and a sling.

Pre-injury weekly split: was training for a marathon, running 6 days per week. Don't need help with that I am just going to stop for now. Gym split was as follows:

Monday: pull-ups, pushups, seated cable row, lat machine or cable work, rear felt fly and TRX pulls

Tuesday: Bulgarian split squat (contra lateral weight got up to 65lb DB as a 45 year old woman I was proud of this now it's all gone 😢), BB back squat, body weight dips, walking lunge (weighted), seated leg curl

Thursday: weighted hip press, flat bench press, more pull-ups (could do 5 strict for a set or two and then assisted once I hit failure), DB incline bench, more pushups, cable chest flys, TRX press

Friday; gymnastics - involved lots of stretching but also some handstand work and lots of shoulder and ab work

So I was doing a lot, maybe too much but no overuse injuries I just fell!, and now I can walk ok great but I had good pushups, dips and pull-up progress going on and now I'm sad I'll lose it. Moving forward I plan two gym days once I'm ready (it still hurts so maybe by next weekend after a full week of healing?)

1 day of lower body machines and 1 day of body weight squats, lunges and step ups and that sort of thing? What do you think/what would you do?

It's no gourmet pizza but the garlic oil rubbed crust takes it up a notch, their cheese bread is even better and they have these unicorn churros which are warm and delicious. I don't go there for the food but when my kid is invited to a party there I'm not mad about it.

I have a few questions and I don't know how to block spoilers, so move along if you haven't read yet!

So I began with IT (was traumatized by the miniseries as a preteen in 1991 or thereabouts and now I'm 45 so I felt ready lol) then polished off Misery, Cujo, Pet Sematary (SO GOOD, fave so far) and everyone loves The Stand so I was ready for another mamma jamma and dove in.

I am onto Christine but I have some random thoughts about The Stand which I need to share and curious if others feel the same about any of it:

• Again this was not my favourite King read so far, tho it had some amazing parts to it and some of the characters like Tom Cullen and Nick Andros are absolute masterpieces, I felt like you can tell it would have been better if they'd added the edited stuff back in BUT left it as taking place in 1978 instead of trying to update it to 1990. I mean Stu Redman makes so much sense as a Vietnam vet but he cannot be that in 1990. The cultural updates took away from the experience overall, imo.
• Flagg was too cartoonish for me, I know ppl love him but he's not even close to my favourite King villain so far. He wasn't much of a character rather a being and I somehow felt Meh about him compared to say Pennywise. Psychotic killer clown not too cartoonish but levitating walking man is? Yep that's my opinion - maybe it's the tantrums that gets to me :p
• However Harold was amazing he and Lloyd are really great bad guys in this book.
• The Kid was hilarious I know he's controversial but he added some really awesome terrifying chaos which I very much enjoyed.
• Book 1 is the best part. That could have been its own short story and might have been one of the best things I've ever read.

Thanks for reading !

I ran the 25k - technical course it was harder than I thought. I've run trails and even some ultras years ago, but this was my first trail run in about 15 years and it beat me up but was beautiful. I don't think the course was a full 25k but I guess my garmin signal could have also been unreliable in the woodsy bits.

Anyone else run or hike it in yesterday's perfect running weather?

I'd began it a couple of times after being delightfully traumatized by the miniseries when I was about 12 years old (I'm 45 now). Had no idea about "that scene" and thought it was crazy but didn't put me off as the actual ending was beautiful (with Silver) I loved it so much.

I know there are plenty of "It" threads on this sub but I wanted to add that after I finished the book, I listened to a 4 hour podcast about it "Just King Things" and it was an awesome discussion with Stephen King context and a modern lens which I appreciated very much especially since I found some parts (related to Mike Hanlon's character, for example) to be problematic and distasteful. Yes even more than that infamous scene referenced above!

This was my first Stephen King I'm torn whether to read more or whether to read Dune instead. Fan Expo is in August and I wanted to read Dune before I go, but now I'm intrigued by The Stand? Opinions welcome!