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20,000 miles behind me, the world still to see.
Title courtesy of Hair Nation on Sirius Radio, which planted a lovely little earworm yesterday. But it's better than the song my son has been singing since late October when they started getting ready for the school Christmas concert that starts "We are Santa's elves, filling Santa's shelves..." Try running a 10-miler with that on a loop in your brain.
Anyway, 5 slow and easy on tap since I have a 5k tomorrow. And I think I will get to run on snow for the first time this year - I can see just a dusting of the white stuff on the ground outside.
Have a great day, fellow runners!
Good morning!
No running for me today but I will do a dynamic warmup, then a series of explosive high kicks before work. I have really come to like those for stretching my tight ass which in case anyone cares, is not so tight anymore!
delicate flower
Hair Nation on Sirius Radio
Guilty pleasure. Yesterday I heard Coming Home by Cinderella.
Good morning, and Happy Jeans Friday for $3! It is dark and raining out there today. Whether or not that continues will determine the nature of my post-work run today. MBC and I have a weekend of chores and Turkey Day prep to tend to. And football. And running. For shizzles werd.
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Barking Mad To Run
BRRR for San Antonio today and this weekend! Last night at 6 PM it was 75 degrees. This morning at 6 am it is 45 degrees with a cold rain falling and the wind blowing at about 20 mph. Per the weather folks, our temps will continue to drop throughout the day and tonite - when all the high school football games are going on - it will be 39 degrees! I have a 5K race tomorrow morning. Predicted weather is light rain, a stiff wind, and temp at 9 a.m. start time of around 42 degrees. High tomorrow of only 59 degrees and on Sunday - on which I have a second 5K to do - a high for the day of only 52. That's not cold by some folks' standards, but for we South Texans that is COLD! Nasty weather this morning. San Antonio folks overall do not drive well in bad weather, I predict there will be several accidents today, unfortunately. I got up at 5 a.m. and came in to work early just to avoid rush hour, and avoid the 'idiot drivers' out in all this weather mess.
Should hopefully be an easy work day for me today. We have a Thanksgiving pot-luck lunch at 11 a.m. and then I am taking off an hour early - 3 PM Texas time - to pick up my packet and pick up a prescription for Gail.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
Guilty pleasure. Yesterday I heard Coming Home by Cinderella. Good morning, and Happy Jeans Friday for $3! It is dark and raining out there today. Whether or not that continues will determine the nature of my post-work run today. MBC and I have a weekend of chores and Turkey Day prep to tend to. And football. And running. For shizzles werd.
Shouldn't that be "Weather or not.."
Good morning! No running for me today but I will do a dynamic warmup, then a series of explosive high kicks before work. I have really come to like those for stretching my tight ass which in case anyone cares, is not so tight anymore!
Keep at it, LRB!
Title courtesy of Hair Nation on Sirius Radio, which planted a lovely little earworm yesterday. But it's better than the song my son has been singing since late October when they started getting ready for the school Christmas concert that starts "We are Santa's elves, filling Santa's shelves..." Try running a 10-miler with that on a loop in your brain. Anyway, 5 slow and easy on tap since I have a 5k tomorrow. And I think I will get to run on snow for the first time this year - I can see just a dusting of the white stuff on the ground outside. Have a great day, fellow runners!
It's still better than the Barney song.
Good luck with your 5K tomorrow, Step! Will it be snowing for your 5K! Ugg...snow....a nasty 4-letter word in South Texas!
WAKE UP, THE REST OF YOU DAILIES FOLKS!
morning!
Because it is apparently Summer still, we have had thunder and severe rains for the last three days and last night flooded us. Kickboxing for sure, a run if I can.
Damaris
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Happy Friday everyone!
Sorry to be MIA all week, I've been sick as hell. I've had some nasty sinus/chest cold stuff for the past week and it is finally clearing up. I ran with the beer group last night and didn't die, so it looks like I'm coming back to the side of the living.
It's raining here for the next couple of days, so I guess I'll be taking it to the Y. I don't want to be out in that nastiness after being sick.
Have a great day!
Scotty - I agree that 40s, windy and rainy is miserable. At least it should be dry for my race. Better 15* and dry than 40* and wet.HobbitLegs - Glad you are feeling better!
D - Weird weather!LRB & Baboon - Lookin' good this morning, gents!
step - good luck on the 5k tomorrow
lrb - work it!
baboon - hope you get a run in
scotty - pot luck sounds good
D - flooding too? wow.
hobbit - hope you're feeling better
7 this morning. off from work today which means the day will absolutely fly by as i try to get things done. now coffee time. everyone have a great day!
marathon pr - 3:16
Wickedly Average
Morning, Dailies! Long time, no post (for me anyway).
Been busy working 12 hour day shifts this week. Yes, once in a while, I get to fill a shift or two (or 3).
Just got home from the doctor. It looks like I have an effusion in the right knee (aka 'water on the knee'). He and I talked for a bit. It's not severe, and is feeling better. I've been off the ibuprophen completely for 6 days so that's a good sign. He suggested that I don't run for another month, until January 1. I asked about running a 4 mile race on December 31 (it's a local race they have every year, in the early evening on New Years' Eve), and he said that would probably be OK. I asked about walking, and he said that other than just the usual walking, I shouldn't do any specific fitness walking for 2 more weeks.
He said I need to fight the urge to head out and run right away. He asked me simply, if I wanted to be able to run the rest of my life or if I wanted my running career cut short by injury. He said that I needed to give it time to fully heal, and that the injured/stressed area was the cartilage in the knee joint (he didn't say meniscus, but I am pretty sure that's what he's referring to) which does not have ordinary blood flow so nutrients don't get there very quickly like they do in soft tissue. Therefore, it takes more time to heal. He also mentioned (which I already knew) that I'm no spring chicken so what might take 2 weeks in my 20's will take much longer now that I'm in my 50s.
Overall, I'm happy with that. While I'm anxious to get out there and start moving again, I understand what he's saying and I'm glad that he understands runners (he is/was a runner himself). I might be in HM shape in February after all!
Tom (formerly known as PhotogTom)
5K - 25:16, 10K - 55:31, 15K - 1:20:55, HM - 1:54:54
Poor Dawn - it appears she married a plumber.