Cut the blister last night and the relief was immediate! Still tender, of course, but I've got a Nexcare waterproof bandage on it for now with Bacitracin so it should heal up pretty well. But then... I keep running on it. Hmmmm.

5.55 miles today at lunchtime. The smoke seemed not bad at all the route I took, but it sure is thick to the south and SW of us. Most of the fires are SW, but there are several all around and the smoke seems to be settling in our valley to stay awhile.

Couldn't go pool running last night... I got there and the pool is closed for renovations till July 20!! Rats.

Paul, all of this hot weather running will pay off when the temps cool down in the fall.

I ran 4 miles with my kids, kind of.... we went to a track and I had them do some loops with me and then peel off and play on the grass.  I would just pick them up and have them run with me whenever they felt like it.  They're 8 and 5 now, so that seemed doable.  They have a swim meet tonight, so running tonight wasn't going to be an option for me.

i'm kind of proud of myself for not blowing it off since I had no childcare options today.

That sounds like it worked out really well.  I'm happy that it worked out for you! 

12 easy here today.  Still in recovery mode.  Did some strides toward the end to try to loosing things up.  Streaking 29 straight now as of today, but I think that will end when we drive to Chicago next week sometime.  It's ok if it ends, if it starts getting too long, I think it will have a life of it's own, and that's not a good thing.

I ran 6 miles tonight, 8:18 avg pace. What the hell is up with that? It was 90F at 5 pm when I went out. Plan was 8 with some hills, changed that to 8 with not so much hills, changed that to 6 and walked up the last mile before DS1 came and rescued me.  

That's still six very nice miles. Heat is a killer.

6 harder than it should have been miles for me this morning. Been just so very busy, that I'm dehydrated and very tired. My heartrate was too high, but I was running with another girl so I just pushed through. Finished, thought I was going to be very ill. Lesson learned the hard way, hopefully when DH is not working 80 hour weeks I'll be able to take better care of myself. Taking the kids to carnavel (wrist band night) tonight. Will surely puke tonight.

Pace-  ouch!  Hope your foot recovers quickly!  Let us know how the tri goes.  For some reason, I thought you did tris already.

Lou- looks like your making an impressive comeback.

Jeremy- wow!!  29 days is amazing.  I don't think my body could do it.

Erika- I agree with those who said that still sounds like a good run to me.

Bugs-  have fun at the fair but don't throw up!!!   Try to take care of yourself... my DH works a ton too, and it can be tough but i've noticed that it's a bit easier now that the kids are a little older.  

Dave- so cool that you've found all of those trails. I'll have to look up how close you are to where my DH's parents live.  I think it's far from what you told me.  When I go visit them, there's really rough dirt roads-  no trails to speak of.

Track workout tonight.  Feeling kinda tired, though, so we'll see how it goes.  Swim Team has kept us busy.  Meet went late last night, but Piper (my 5 yo) has been swimming so much better.. they both have, but Darby already was doing well.  Back up and at it this morning with a 2 hour practice- between the 2 of them... that's so amazing to me that kids have that much stamina.

I got to train an 11 year old today whose Mom wants him to get faster for basketball.  I had him running sprints and I resisted the urge to run with him, which was probably good.    I'm feeling old and creaky lately, so I wouldn't want to hurt myself.

Have a good one all.

Camping sounds fun, Lou.  Have a great time.

ran 1200 repeats tonight... did 4 of them.... 5:35, 5:20, 5:25, 5:25   ran 2 miles warm up and cool down.

I should have run 1 or 2 more repeats, but I was done.  

fun night at the track.