Bugs, how close are you to Eagan? One of my aquaintenances, Ryan is moving back to MN. His wife misses home, so wasnt liking Calif. He is 6'7" and used to play football for the Golden Gophers. He just turned 30. He is going to make Grandma's his first Marathon. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/index-weekly.asp?memberid=39673# Off to teach cycle.

Oh. My. God. What the hell is wrong with you people? I leave for a few days and what happens? The whole place falls to crap. Honestly. [strutting around with hands on hips] Bugs, what's this about a scary avatar? All I see is a baby but I can't read the shirt. What's wrong with your legs? I thought you came through TCM ok? Even talking about a second in short time? Well, I hope that talk is over. Shan... shin splints? No! Those can really be nasty, but if you catch them early it should be ok. Ice is your friend... Have you ramped up your mileage recently? I didn't check your log... Dave! Again, I thought you came out of the Army race in good shape. Was I just skimming the thread too much? What's wrong with your legs? What's your upcoming marathon? Sounds almost like Kimmie is running it too? Kimmie! (gorgeous avatar, btw... truly) How's the back/shoulders? That really does suck to have all systems be go, except your back. That's the core of your core and can really mess up your race. Sounds like the worst is behind you, so I hope you're still improving. And I don't know about the no running for three weeks... my orthopedist, who runs and mountain bikes, says 10 days is the max of no- or light-duty only workouts with minimal loss of fitness. After that, it can go quickly. But you recover it faster than someone who was not fit before. Cash, nice race and thanks for the birthday kickoff. I appreciated the e-mail while I was alone in my hotel room feeling sorry for myself. Where've I been? St. Louis. Good conference, and I did a great job on my presentation (ha, if I do say so myself!), but the running sucked. In that I didn't. Run, that is. *sigh* I had an absolutely awesome run last Friday, a usual rest day, in anticipation of being on a plane all day Saturday. What I hadn't counted on was being on a plane all freakin' night, too! We were 3 hours late getting into St. Louis because Northwest had us on three planes in Minneapolis till they found one that would work! Amazing... so we didn't get in till after midnight, I crawled into bed after 1:30 a.m. with the plan to get up "early" and run 16 or so in Forest Park, a 12 minute train ride from my hotel. Got up late (understandably) so it was already hot, and my foot hurt... bad. One loop around the trail at this park is 5.6 miles, and my plan was to do at least 3. It was so not happening. After one loop, I was done. Drank 2 20-oz bottles of water, ate a pack of Luna moons, 4 S-caps and it was all no good. My foot hurt so badly, and it pissed me off. I don't know what it was, other than the overall swelling and fatigue from the long hours in the plane(s). So... I didn't run the rest of the time I was there. Kills me too cuz there was a 5k "fun run/walk" on Tuesday and the winning women's time was just over 27 minutes. Really. And she won a $100 gift certificate to NikeTown. grrrr! I can run an "easy" 5k in less than that, so I was mad. Oh well, as my boss said, I really didn't need to be out on my foot no matter what. Got home early evening yesterday, had a good dinner and good night's sleep. Feel almost human today. It was 4F this morning... clear and sunny now, and I saw last night that the bike path was cleared so I'm going to try 5 easy tonight. Gotta keep that 2k pace bunny outta sight.

Oh. My. God. What the hell is wrong with you people? I leave for a few days and what happens? The whole place falls to crap. Honestly. [strutting around with hands on hips]

Hi, my name is Dave and I'm a runaholic. <everyone> Hi Dave </everyone> This week instead of tapering, I did a 17 miler and two 6 milers and ended up with shin splints with my marathon in 10 days. <everyone's>What a dumbass!</everyone's> OK, legs are improving after two days rest. Still tweaky but much better. Will ice again tonight. Hit them with the roller and may go an easy 3 or 4 tomorrow.

Kimmie, When there are no clean dishes you need to do take out. I have a new avatar. I feel like a pig because I'm running these short runs but eating hearty. I better get on the scale tomorrow. That'll fix it.

it's the same soreness i've has for months and i think its muscular not shin splints. especially since it does't hurt to run and the rollins has helped. no mom no ramping.

I was good while you were gone, Erika. I am only naughty when you are around... wink.

Inertia, You will miss us so much you will be back.