So the move is over (for now) my kids and wife are gone to stay with family until our new home is completed, I am free to sleep and run as much as I want and I have made it to the final 5!!!! In the first 5 days since my move was completed I ran 5kms and slept for about 20 hours, yes that’s right only 20 hours in 5 days. Why you ask only 20 hours of sleep and only one run?? Well I played in a hockey tournament over the weekend and played 4 games of hockey in those 5 days, the last of which we only had 6 skaters so I have been getting plenty of exercise. But the sleep, well let’s just say that when you get a bunch of guys together for a weekend away from their responsibilities they revert back to their younger days and spend it with beer bottles glued to their hands, stay up way to late and become rather loud (Sorry Amanda) 
Anyway, now that I have that out of my system I am primed and ready to go…or so I thought. Here’s the deal. I woke up this morning had a coffee and said to my roomie Tory, ‘I’m going for a run tonight’ There it was, out in the open, no turning back, no reason not to go, no kids to put to bed, no nothing. So I finished my coffee, had a shower and went into my room to get ready for my day. Now here is where the problem started. I grabbed a pair of boxers, went to put them on and WAM! My back seized up in a spasm so bad it knocked me to the floor! Thankfully Tory had left because I am sure my scream (which resembled a baby and may have been followed by a profanity) would have made her run to see what had happened and with me lying immobile half naked on the floor I would have been so embarrassed I would have had to leave and go to a hotel! Anyone who has every had acute back spasms knows that they can be very crippling and moving at all is almost impossible, so basically I was stuck on the floor and spent the next 15 minutes or so trying to move enough to lean on the bed. Once I got there I called my wife for some reason. (Not sure what my thought process was there as she is still visiting family 5 hours away!) After hanging up the phone with her I spent the next 20 minutes getting from my knees up onto the bed, where I spent the next 30 minutes waiting for the spasm to subside and cancelling my meetings for the day. Needless to say the run will not be happening tonight and I have spent the day working while standing at the island in the kitchen!
Sadly this is not the first time that this has happened to me so I know how long it may be before I am fully functional again. The good news is that I am mobile, able to walk slowly and it seems to be loosening up fairly quickly so hopefully in the next few days I will be able to resume some sort of exercise. The bad news, it hurts like crazy, sleeping is going to be tough and going to the bathroom…..well lets just say that sitting is not the most comfortable position.
As this is April 1st I am sure some of you are thinking that the next line I am going to write is ‘April Fools!!!!’ I wish! As I said to my friend Jay when he asked me that question “the only fool here was me stuck on the floor with my underwear halfway on crying like a little girl” and that’s no joke!
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