beat the blerch

so what does a girl do when she hasn't run in over 3 weeks due to persistent injury?  she books a flight to seattle for a race (as yet undetermined length) with no place to stay that falls on HER BIRTHDAY!  yay me. 


gotta remember to sign up on monday.

so last night i was perusing the book of face and a friend of mine who lives in seattle posted a post about this race that is being directed by this guy who writes this awesome comic called the oatmeal... maybe you've heard of it?  if not... GO THERE NOW AND SPEND SOME TIME.  it's pretty awesome.


anyhoo... this guy wrote this awesome comic about running and ever since then he's been near and dear to my heart.


now... to be fair this trip isn't only for the race.  my husband's birthday is the 19th and mine is the 21st so it seemed kismet for me to run this race.  i've never been to seattle and i've always wanted to go so what perfect cosmic predestination!  dare i say... fate?


the last thing to do is figure out where to stay and sign up for the race.  i'm leaning towards the 1/2 marathon distance since that's pretty easy and seems worthy of flying across the country for.  since i've had to give up the trailbreaker as well as the ice age 50K that leaves lakefront as my first marathon.  i sort of want to keep that as my first marathon now. 


seems the perfect one for my first... hometown and all that jazz.  beautiful course plus boston qualifying.  what more could i ask for?


i'm pretty excited and i really hope that the trouble with my leg sorts itself out.  the doc appointment went as i thought it would.  i love that guy.  he did send me to get a mammogram (which he's done every year for the past 3 years and which i've promptly not gone and gotten for the past 3 years)... my appointment is on friday.  this time i'm going.  i also was supposed to set something up with a sports medicine doctor but they aren't working out of the office near me and i'm not interested in driving 30 minutes so i'm not making that appointment.  *sigh*  such a bummer...


in worse news... my insurance changes april 1st (thanks obama) and not for the better.  i am gainfully employed and we are getting so screwed by this new healthcare.  my premium went up considerably, our deductible went up, and the structure of the plan changed in a way that i will now have to pay for everything (prescriptions, office visits, etc...) everything up front until the deductible ($5,500) is met.  then and only then does the co-pay and coverage kick in.  its bullshit.  right now the plan we have covers everything.  we pay a heavy premium, $30 co-pays, and our deductible is $3,300 or something but then everything is covered.  april 1st and all that changes... what a mess.  i'm pretty sure i won't be going to the doctors anymore after the 1st.  sad but true.  i hope it helps the unemployed and truly destitute because it isn't helping my family.