Back and nervous D: Run felt good, but considering my recent history I'm still going to be icing, foam rolling, and crossing fingers until I feel that I'm fine tomorrow. The mental part of recovery is just the worst.

Damaris - referring to the Prison Head in Colorado who was supposedly killed by the white supremacist and the judge and his wife in Texas who were killed a few days later.  Supposedly a lot of people involved in the Justice system are on edge.

Tomas - It's been spring for a while in Texas, is it cooler than usual today?

Lauren - 7 minutes is great, how soon do you think you'll be at 30 minutes?  Are you following a plan or just winging it?

Tracilynn - I understand feeling overwhelmed by the news.  Sometimes you need to just back away from TV and internet. I like Jimmy's idea of watching Peter Pan with his daughter.  And comebacks aren't easy.  I don't know who told you otherwise.  Sometimes they feel like one step forward and two steps backwards.

Damaris - referring to the Prison Head in Colorado who was supposedly killed by the white supremacist and the judge and his wife in Texas who were killed a few days later.  Supposedly a lot of people involved in the Justice system are on edge.

 

Tomas - It's been spring for a while in Texas, is it cooler than usual today?

 

Lauren - 7 minutes is great, how soon do you think you'll be at 30 minutes?  Are you following a plan or just winging it?

 

Tracilynn - I understand feeling overwhelmed by the news.  Sometimes you need to just back away from TV and internet. I like Jimmy's idea of watching Peter Pan with his daughter.  And comebacks aren't easy.  I don't know who told you otherwise.  Sometimes they feel like one step forward and two steps backwards.

Loosely following a plan, my coach had me start a few weeks ago at 9 minutes walk/1 minute jog x 3 every other day, and I've been gradually increasing the running intervals and decreasing the walking intervals as I feel comfortable doing so (every session at first, now I'm doing 2-3 sessions at each time point). I expect it'll be another 2-3 weeks before I'm back to 30 minutes straight - no reason to rush it at this point, I'm quite tired of starting over from scratch, haha

LOL, guys.  It's my first 50K.  And yes, it's a full SRD.

 

But, I ran down the stairs to evacuate One of my federal buildings after a scare this morning.  Does that count?

That sounds painful!  How big a roll of toilet paper did you need to evacuate a building?  

Well, I did get in a run at lunch-time.  Stupid weather-person said it would not rain until after 5 pm today.   Wrong!  During my run the wind picked up and we had a passing shower, so I got a bit wet.  Which actually felt pretty good as I ran at 12:30 pm and the temp was 78 degrees, with 85% humidity.    I ended up doing 5K distance, nice and easy, with one short 'stop' on my route....because the other thing that happened on my run... I ran into a bus!   A STOPPED bus.      The UTSA campus shuttle buses.....as shown below.....

.....drive and stop all over campus at various places, giving campus transportation to students, faculty, staff.   One was stopped at one of the stops.  I was running, looking down at my watch for a moment....looked up....the bus was RIGHT there....WHAM!  Right into the side of it I went, lol.  Knocked myself right on my keister.  Scared the hell outta the poor driver, she came flying off the bus to see what had happened.  She told me later she thought somebody had thrown something at her bus.    There was also a campus police guy in a nearby parking lot - doing speed checks, I guess, campus speed limit is 20 mph - and he came over to make sure I was all right.   Turns out I know the guy, see him around a lot on my campus runs. He helped me up, then he had me do some of those "drunk" tests, lol, I guess to make sure I was not dizzy, disoriented, etc.   I was fine...just gonna have a nice bruise where I impacted the bus.  Chuckling, my police friend said "You made my day..pretty boring till you showed up."  Gee, glad I could help.   I bet every campus cop now - I'm very recognizable with what I wear when I run - will be laughing every time they see me out there.

SIIIIIGH.   Oh well, what can you do?  I just had to laugh at myself, it was just so damn silly...and typical Scottydog.  See, I know what REALLY caused it...that darn passing shower...my shoes got all wet, and so I slipped on wet road and this was the result.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.... 

Damaris - referring to the Prison Head in Colorado who was supposedly killed by the white supremacist and the judge and his wife in Texas who were killed a few days later.  Supposedly a lot of people involved in the Justice system are on edge.

 

Tomas - It's been spring for a while in Texas, is it cooler than usual today?

 

Lauren - 7 minutes is great, how soon do you think you'll be at 30 minutes?  Are you following a plan or just winging it?

 

Tracilynn - I understand feeling overwhelmed by the news.  Sometimes you need to just back away from TV and internet. I like Jimmy's idea of watching Peter Pan with his daughter.  And comebacks aren't easy.  I don't know who told you otherwise.  Sometimes they feel like one step forward and two steps backwards.

this morning at 5am it was almost 80 and 80% humidity. The air was thisck and nasty. Its mid 80's now and not as humid. Me and my 5 year old have a date with the track in a little while I hope he isnt faster than me.

5 easy miles tonight, don't know what the temp, dew point, humidity was, but it's too friggin hot out.

Ginny, my feet have been aching because I stand on them too much at work while wearing clod hopper big steel toe boots. Usually some reduced miles gets them back to normal.

hey 'guins!

3 miles today.

I looked your weather and it's not even close, ha!

My app won't show dew point. And the mean streets of Miami ain't as tough as the mean streets of Refugio