I’ve run smart races.

I’ve run races not smart.

It is much better to run them smart.

After seeing my Hypopara Endocrinologist, we talked about how I’ve been been more syptomatic with low calcium symptoms. Yes, there was the crash after my last 10 mile run, but there I’ve also been having “normal” low calcium symptoms on a regular basis. Things like muscle cramps, tingles, and muscle spasms.

These are just things you get used to.

Here’s the thing….. You forget that these are not normal. They are just your normal.

In talking with my doctor, we don’t see any reason for the changes. My only thought is that I may have been under stress but even then.

I’ve run more marathon’s with Hypopara than with out at this point. Even with all my marathon training and Hat Trick training, my calcium has not been this bad. The only thought I’ve had is that I did used to run with powdered calcium in my water. Although I haven’t done that in years.

I’m going to try again. While it really is never a good thing to try something new on race day, I will be adding powdered calcium to my water. I will still have my regular doses with me, but I’ve got to figure out dosing.

Again, there is no way to measure calcium levels in real time. My doctor did say that it is better to go too hight than too low.

We also talked about my last crash and while she said it was smart to go home to where my meds were to make sure to take care because if it continued to go lower instead of regulating that it could cause a cardiac event…. And that based on my account and documented photos, it was a “severe crash.”

Now being she is the medical profession, she did caution about running Brooklyn. That being said, she also said as long as I did it smartly it should be ok since I’ve completed two other 10 miles runs in training. I also said, that I would be smart and if I end up having to walk a bunch, I will.

I will get to the start.

I will get to the finish.

I will be smart.

I will probably be very slow.

I do not anticipate that I will meet any A goal that I once floated at the start of my training.

The upside…… I am still moving.

Plus I have the hope of now getting on the therapy replacement plan and then it will be game on.