So close indeed! and you are right that I honestly thought I'd 90% +/- but it has truly been a joy to train for this with no pressure and just building my own little project.

I appreciate you and others here that understand the complexity of it - especially on the swim side at 40yrs old.

Now some bad news... I had west coast work trip and not sure what happened during the flight or maybe post swim meet/long run but my back locked up on me and I haven't been able to train this past week. I did do 30x100s today and pushed the last 10 around 1:03-1:07 and felt good but I can still feel the pressure in the lumbar area.

Still, staying positive and seeing the PT to see what we can do to make it to Boston. But health first of course :)

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Injury report ! Latest update on the project here -> https://www.instagram.com/p/C5TkOuzuHy-/

Still remaining positive and making the most out of the situation. I can still swim and bike but no running for now.

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Sorry to read, but sounds that you are keeping a positive attitude and working on fixing it. Hopefully you heal quick and can still race Boston.

Thank you!

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So did you make it to the race today? And any news on the swimming front? Sounds like you had a really bad patch recently, maybe just bagged everything and perhaps a reboot to some other challenge...

Curious to know how it went. When I saw the posting a while ago about a hard racing and then a long set of flights I was going to recommend doing the bird dog pose as that would really help things after all flying hunched over.

Checking in and hoping you had a good day!

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Thank you for checking in. Unfortunately no Boston for me today. I'm fully recovered from the lower back pain but I didn't want to regress on all of the progress I've done thus far. The swimming was still holding on pretty good and I might even try to push a hard 100free by the end of this month still. But I want to make sure the back is pain free 100% first. I still got Lake Placid Ironman and Chicago marathon on my schedule, so maybe still a way to slice this goal in a different format. But again, thanks for checking! My spirits are still very much up and optimistic about the rest of the year.

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