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From the Upside Down to the Abyss

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For a while I thought I knew how all the beats of how this year would go: hobble through the Boston Marathon, get cut open in May, then again in June, slay the Mind Flayer followed by a summer/fall of PT, and then a gradual return to running. It was my own Upsidedown world, so to speak. 

The insane plot twist I didn't see coming, however, was the dress shoes I purchased at the Goodwill store turned out to previously belong to Vecna and they severely inflamed my heal bone. I took a few days off to nurse what I thought was a little bout with plantar facisiatis. And my first run back was fine. 

Except that run actually turned out to be a wormhole to the Abyss!! I haven't run a mile since. In other words: there's a stress fracture in my foot. INSERT an elaborate use of props to overexplain what a "serpiginous hypointense stress fracture line extending vertically down from the posteromedial superior calcaneal cortex at the tuberosity level while extending transverse from its medial cortex" is. 

And with that winter is coming... okay, different show. I just hope that unlike the characters in Game of Thrones, I share the same fate as the gang from Hawkins who seem to conquer death at every turn. 

Getting this news on the year's last day instead of the 1st, seems better. I'll start 2026 with the hope that I'll be Running Up That Hill again in no time. 

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