Totals from last week.

amlinz	79.5 mi	9:40:50
ChakaKahn	53.6 mi	0:00
nanxin	48.9 mi	7:05:54
Happyfeet	41 mi	6:43:52
old-runner	40.3 mi	6:13:49
CarolinaBlue	33.4 mi	4:18:43
jdbrown	32.4 mi	4:34:05
cpaterun	31 mi	4:27:01
SForrester	28.1 mi	3:36:29
theyapper66	25.5 mi	4:42:07
Lpadg	22.4 mi	0:00
CliveF	17.3 mi	2:36:55
alholley	14.3 mi	2:05:45
rossruns	4 mi	36:17

So far this week has been great - cooler temps are a nice break, aren't they?

Lynwood sure seems fast,  Can be here one sec and 22 miles down the road at the same time, but ChakaKahn still has him beat 

Paul,

I think you also need to award a Swiss-flag like red cross ribbon weekly (or in special situations) given our group's injuries.

On Sunday I had a doozy. Left for SoCal Sat evening. Temps are in the low 70's (there is a marine layer so its cloudy and humidity is high for high -- in the 60's). Went to do my long run (the wk prior in Charlotte I only made 9 miles stopping three times in the heat and slogged the last mile). Here, I felt great running along a walkway next to the beach. I darted into a parking lot (walkway was crowded up ahead), two miles into the run, as I was darting back onto the walkway, did not see a parking curb (the cement block that pull your cars tires up to when you park) that was for whatever reason directly in the path of where you run back up into the walkway. I hear a loud pop (my right toe kicking the cement slab), the next thing I feel is my nose and face landing into the handicap matt on the walkway first and then my hands hit second, and my shoulder and knees sliding along the cement. I'm sprawled out, roll over, and like any diligent runner, before I feel to see what I injured, I stop my Garmin (strange how that was my first thought I was sprawled out and dazed on the ground). My nose and palms are really hurting, I feel my nose and have blood all over my hands, after about 30 seconds I'm still dazed but get up. The handicap matts in San Diego are different vs. in Charlotte (in Charlotte they are a black/smooth matt). Here, they are yellow or blue and have about 288 raised 1/8" by 1/8" hard rubber pegs per sq foot. There is more blood as I feel my face. I'm wandering around, there is van parked nearby, I see a hand sticking out of the van, the hand has napkins, I hear a voice that says "here, take these" (god only knows what this person was doing in the van alone w/napkins handy!). I'm moping up blood. I believe my nose is broken and my face feels like I was punched in the mouth. I look in the van's dark windows and now can see that my nose is completely gashed, the blood is not coming fr the inside but fr the gashes on the outside (fr landing on and sliding along on the hard pegs). My palms are killing me (feels like both hands could be broken and my right hand looks like I pressed down on a bed of nails). After I go thru the napkins, the hand is out of the van again w/paper towels. I mop up. At this point I realize that my toe hurts but is not broken, I'm 2 miles out, gather myself, and begin to run back -- but I actually feel good and light on my feet! So like any of us I continue another 8 miles to complete my 10 mile long run, and run it progressively pushing the last four miles.

During this run, almost everyone I pass along the way are staring at me as I run by. When I get back, I look in the mirror and the horror sets in -- it looks like someone hit me in my nose w/a bat (w/dried blood splattered all over). I have a baseball sized gash on my shoulder exposing raw skin, and a slightly smaller gash on my left knee. What a fun way to start a vacation (and I have to cover/bandage all of these wounds and other burn marks I found during the day as this is all raw skin that could result in 2nd or 3rd degree burns if exposed to sun -- again, what a fun way to spend one's time in sunny California!).

Wow Rob... that's quite the spill! I keep thinking it's going to happen to me and it probably will eventually but hasn't so far. Hard to believe you stopped your watch. 

So like any of us I continue another 8 miles to complete my 10 mile long run, and run it progressively pushing the last four miles.

The splits don't look that progressive to me.

Just giving you a hard time.

We need a column for cycling miles!  But (knock on wood) I'm back on track to being a runner again.  17mi this week and last, no more Gallowalking, and none of the recidivist issues I had last time I tried to get back to normal running.  Fingers crossed, though ...

Richard,

congrats on the improvement (and performance). What are you down to in terms of weight? 

I'm somewhere in the range of 138-140 pounds and that's most likely where I'll stay unless I get on the Michael Phelps diet too. After I lost 10 pounds in four weeks I went another four weeks and only lost 1 or 2 pounds so I figured my body was trying to tell me something. I was hoping I could get down to the 125-130 range but I don't think that's going to happen. If I can stay right around 140 it'll be pretty good though. I did my best running in the fall of 2009 when I weighed 143 and I feel like I'll do better this fall, but it's all just conjecture until I run the races. I'd like to set some PRs though... that would be nice.