Some Setbacks...

Already!!!
Sheesh, well one major one is the ridiculous weather. Even if I try to run at night, such as Saturday night, it is still upper 90's with the heat index in the 100's. At 9, at night! Are you kidding?!? I had planned on roughly 12 miles, but I had to end at 7, knowing that I was not doing my body any favors by pushing through the extreme heat. It eventually just becomes dangerous.
However, the weather is not the major problem. Its my back. Ahhh! I sound like my dad. Not really sure what the issue is, Thursday morning I woke up with pretty significant pain on the lower right side of my back, like I had rolled over onto a knife during my sleep. My run Friday morning felt fine, no problems. But Saturday night was torture.
I took yesterday, and am taking today off as well. I hate days off, and feel like they do not do anything for me.
As of right now, its any one of these things...scaitia, lumbar strain, or heck even a kidney stone.
My plan is an easy run tomorrow on the trails, and hopefully getting a new pair of kicks this week, and possibly even getting re-fit for shoes just to make sure that I am not my own worst enemy. This makes running in the 10k on Saturday pretty doubtful, but not out of the question, it just depends on a lot of things.
The goal is still to run the Firecracker 5k no matter what. I have a little over a month before the real training starts. Longer runs, faster runs, and more tempos, and tons of carbs!
Some funny things...I had a bird dive bomb me out of a tree a week or so ago...it literally was attacking my scalp, for roughly 50 meters...there was also some yahoo who decided to, after driving past me on my right on a night run, to inform me that I was a moron for running off the sidewalk (no traffic was not having to move for me, it was lit, and I was clearly visible). Now this apparent guardian of pedestrian well being, thought that driving into oncoming traffic, while looking and yelling at me was far safer than just going about his evening after initially driving by. Then, when he had informed me of all my mental deficiencies, he pulled a quick u-turn to head back towards wherever he was initially going, and almost clipped my back leg. Seriously, non runners, leave us alone when we are running. Most of us are not ignorant, and are just as interested in not getting hit as you guys are in not hitting us. Give us that little bit of credit please :).
I will post tomorrow and let everyone know how the test run goes! Thanks for reading!