And then what

happened? So I trained for...

six weeks, seven weeks, maybe even eight weeks.

I built up pretty well.

Um, and then I had like, I wasn't feeling normally like as fit as I was, but like I was building up my mileage, I was feeling good.

So I had a stress factor.

So November stress factor on my left side of the sacrum.

yeah what does this tell us i

What, what is your current injury?

Um, so I had a...

I mean, I, I haven't made this public, so I had a, a sacral stress fracture in November that took me out for 12 weeks, which was...

I've had a sacral stress fracture before that had only taken me out for about seven.

Um, and then after recovering from that one in November, I trained for about six weeks, felt a little pain.

The moment I felt anything, I just stopped running.

Thought, you know, after taking a few days off, I'd be back, and then, um, got some MR- got a...

Yeah.

So for anyone listening, tell us what the injury was first and foremost.

Yeah, so I had a sacral stress fracture along with some like pelvis stuff too.

the pelvis stuff, the doctors thought I could, I would, I would, I could kind of muscle through it.

Um, and like, just, you know, not really muscle through it, but like just, uh, I could still run, but I would just kind of have to, uh, decrease mileage and have no intensity.

And I was, I was fine with that, but the, I don't know, that was what was showing up on the first two MRIs.

And then the third, I knew something else was wrong.

I was like, it's, I can't run right now and feel good, and I can barely even walk pain-free.

Yeah, maybe.

What was the injury that you sustained last fall? And is it true that it happened while pacing your wife in a marathon?

It definitely...

It's hard to say when it happened because it's a stress injury.

It was, well, I had a few things, actually.

But the reason I had to stop running was I had a stress fracture in my sacrum.

Got the MRI.

There was other things going on with my pelvis, and it flared up on the MRI that I had a stress reaction also in my femur.

Is that true as someone who is going to doping control, someone who is realistically competing against people who have been popped before or who are waiting to be popped now? Are things getting better or