I never thought I would be writing my very first post sitting on a bag of ice, nursing a pulled hamstring.  Rather than bemoan the fact my entire running season was abruptly ended by an untimely meeting with a gnarly tree root, I decided to think like Allison Baver,  member of the U.S. Olympic speedskating team who earned a bronze medal in Vancouver.  Baver, who I interviewed while in town for a training camp at the U.S. Olympic Education Center in Marquette, made a remarkable recovery from a split right tibia and ankle impacted with shattered bone seven months prior to the Olympic trials.