Are you talking about Muncie?

Sorry to hear about your back, hope you can make it to the race. It'll be my first HIM also.

that's just miserable...
take it easy! hope you heal up quickly!

A number of years ago a neurosurgeon wanted to remove the disc in my back. That idea really freaked me out. Someone put me onto a really good chiropractor. It's been 7 years, I start and stop with the Chiropractor as I feel necessary.
Best money I've every spent.

Of course a regular Dr would be prescribing anti-inflammatory meds. I'm sure those help as well.

I can still imagine that back pain.
Hope you heal up quickly, Good Luck

Thinking of Hunter S Thompson when I say.... "I'm waiting for the drugs to take affect"

My husband lived for 15 years with a rupture between L4 and L5. Managed it over that time through occassional chiro visits, good luck, and running (of all things). Last summer though it got so bad that he couldn't sit, lie down, sleep, or do much of anything without massive amounts of pain down his legs as you've described. He tried to keep pushing through but after three weeks of concentrated and excruciating pain, which even got to the point that he wasn't able to work full days, went to a Dr who referred him to one of the best neurosurgeons in town. The Neuro was conservative in his recommendations, but educated us on what the microsurgury technology offers in terms of removing the material that is pressing on the sciatic nerve (which runs down your legs). We weren't thrilled about the notion of back surgery, but it turns out that was the best thing we ever did.

He had the surgery on 6/27/06, was on his commuter bike within 1.5 months (albeit slowly and with little power), on a snowboard within 6 months, and this summer back to mountain biking, road riding, and running. No pain, no stiffness, no more worries. Just about a 1 inch scar in the small of his back is all that's left.

I'm not saying this is for everyone. In fact we tend to be over the top in terms of natural remedies vs. traditional ones, and we resisted with all we could for as long as we could. But for him, the pain just ended up impacting his quality of life so severely that we ended up deciding to try it.

Depending on how bad this gets for you, it will be important to research and consider all of your options. So I thought I'd share our story of what was scary at the time but that had a very happy ending.

Take care of yourself.

Hopefully you'll improve in the next few weeks and can still get yourself into a later season race without pain. Keep your spirits up in the meantime!

That's a bummer, sorry to hear about it. Where in Indy are you? Maybe we could do some training sometime in the future.

BOOOO Bearcats:) ...I went to Muncie North "Titans". Actually my kids went to Central, so I am a Bearcat fan now.

Thanks for the good luck wishes.

Tim

Hey man what I did one time when a deployment was affecting a race was write them a big long letter and some times you can get enough sympathy to still get a transfer. It is worth a shot dude...