Cohasset 10K

This is a race I had signed up to do and intended to run yesterday. But it never happened. Sadly, I seem to have pulled a muscle in my right leg (maybe my hamstring?) and I've been in pain over the last several weeks. I still try to run though, which really just means I'm reinjuring myself all the time. I do stop to walk or take some days off when I experience stabbing, shooting pain.

One of the things I had been looking forward to with this race was the location: Cohasset is the town where The Witches of Eastwick was filmed. And nobody likes a Cher reference better than me. Except maybe for Jack McFarland. Dr. Bombay (who actually did run this race) and I had toyed with the idea of running the race dressed up as different versions of Cher. You know, one of us could have been the Bob Mackie version:



And the other could have been the blonde plastic surgery version:


The possibilities were endless. Instead, Dr. Bombay ran with my timing chip in his pocket. So I was there in spirit, if not in costume.

In an attempt to cope with my pain over the last several weeks, I've rested, been massaged, seen my chiropractor and seen my general practitioner. Now I have a referral to a physical therapist, who I'll see tomorrow. I've been told to bring some shorts so he can look at my legs. Of course, I don't own any shorts. It's the Bay Area in me that refuses to believe that I need them or that the world needs to see my pasty legs. And capris are just so much more flattering. Which is what I'll tell him when he asks me to don my shorts: "Really, doctor, capris are just so much more flattering."