{"id":44281,"date":"2026-02-15T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=44281"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:40:15","slug":"the-lost-lost-dutchman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=44281","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Lost Dutchman"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was supposed to be in Apache Junction, Arizona, this morning.<br \/><br \/>I was supposed to be running the Lost Dutchman Marathon.<br \/><br \/>But I&#8217;m not.<br \/><br \/>Because of the stress fracture diagnosis, I am home, working on physical therapy repetitions. Ever twinge of soreness is read as pain and makes me less likely to run. The doctors and the therapies have made me scared to run, that I somehow might make things worse. I don&#8217;t like being scared of running. It worries me. Which sends me down another spiral.<br \/><br \/>This is a hard day. A hard week. A hard month. A hard year. I had envisioned 2026 being a comeback year. Strange to think it&#8217;s already too late for that when it&#8217;s only the middle of February.<br \/><br \/>Is that a pain in my tibia? Is it just sore from physical therapy because that&#8217;s kinda the point, to build up its strength? When can I run again? These charts and diagrams the orthopedist printed off and told me I would figure out might as well be written in Greek. I do not read Greek. Maybe I should have said the diagrams are as clear to me as Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Would that I had a Rosetta Stone for PT.<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;ve already deferred the Socal Marathon that I had booked for two weeks from now. And the Los Angeles Marathon on March 8th is a no-go, without any deferral options. I&#8217;m out a couple hundred dollars in registration fees so far. A drop in the bucket next to the healthcare costs.<br \/><br \/>Wasn&#8217;t the exercise supposed to keep me healthy? To prolong a life worth living?<br \/><br \/>This really, really sucks.<br \/><br \/>The Lost Dutchman 2026: DNS.<br \/><br \/>Did not start.<br \/><br \/>Sigh.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to be in Apache Junction, Arizona, this morning. I was supposed to be running the Lost Dutchman Marathon. But I&#8217;m not. Because of the stress fracture diagnosis, I am home, working on physical therapy repetitions. Ever twinge of soreness is read as pain and makes me less likely to run. The doctors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44285,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281\/revisions\/44285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}