To endure all this, I was given steroid shots, eight hundred milligrams of ibuprofen, and lidocaine patches. I had been in the best shape of my life. I’d run two marathons and a 50K trail ultra race. I’d climbed multiple mountains and I pushed myself in the gym. But now, I was putting my body through the ringer, on land and up in the air, and my body was finally like, “Nope. Not doing it.”
