Good morning all,

Sorry you missed your workout Coast but it was a good choice to sleep more instead.

Wednesday errr yes it is,  my days are out of whack this week too! I usually work Tuesday 8 hrs & Wednesday morning but switched Tuesday for Monday at someone else's request and because 1 Judge is on vacation I'm off on Wednesday.

Nice 43 mile bike yesterday with a guy who is planning to ride Route 66 next year Chicago to LA. and he's looking for a partner or two. Sounds like a great adventure but who has 28-35 days to just ride (ouch my butt is sore) .

Wildchild nice pics yesterday! I don't think I could run there because I'd be looking at the scenery too much and hurt myself, seems more like a beautiful hike.

8 miles a little later with 4 hard 1/2 mile intervals mixed in.  5k cross country race Saturday and 21 miler Sunday.

Enjoy!!!

Completed a 10 day running streak...I don't think I've done that in yet in 2013.

A nice 5 fartlek filled miles this morning...lovin the weather.

Spent the day yesterday in Arlington, TX with a local client, facilitating a meeting with their clients, kind of a "how are we serving you?" all day meeting. It went very well.  More companies ought to have the courage to bring their customers together for sessions like this.  I had a ball.  No running though, so a rare day off.

Today I went back to the track, but because of last Saturday's tough 20K, I did just 2 x 800, at 4:06 and 4:00, and 5.2 total miles.  Felt just fine.  Spareribs

Obviously I need to go back and look at yesterday's thread.  Box of chocolates? Oh my.

I was wondering if I could get some advice here . . . . . . has anybody ever dealt with a boil before?  I have one in very uncomfortable spot on my right butt cheek.  I went to the doc yesterday and got antibiotics and spent ALL DAY doing hot, moist compresses and sat in a tub of hot water for about 1.5 hours last night.  It still hasn't come to a head.  I can't go to work 'cause I can't sit.  I read about some stuff called Ichthammol.  Anybody ever use that?

This comes at a really bad time since I'm suppose to drive to Portland, OR, tomorrow (7-8 hrs), Friday we caravan to the race site, and Saturday is Kate's 100-miler and I'm suppose to run the last 30 with her.

HELP!!

Leslie's Boil

A Lancashire Ballad by Robert Service

(with some modification)
to be read in yer best Lancaster brogue

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Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, right on your ass."
Says she: "You are right, Shorty, I've something.  It 'appens it's on me be'ind.
A Boil as 'ud make Job jealous. It 'urts me no end when I sit."
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Says I: "Go to 'ospittel, Missis. They might 'ave to coot it a bit."
Says she: "I just 'ate to be showin' the part of me person it's at."
Says I: "Don't be fussy; them doctors see sights more 'orrid than that."
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So Misses goes off togged up tasty, and there at the 'ospittel door
They tells 'er to see the 'ouse Doctor, 'oose office is Room Thirty-four.
So she 'unts up and down till she finds it, and knocks and a voice says: "Come in,"
And there is a 'andsome young feller, in white from 'is 'eels to 'is chin.
"I've got a big boil," says my Missis. "It 'urts me for fair when I sit,
And Shorty (that's me hub) 'as asked me to ask you to coot it a bit."
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Then blushin' she plucks up her courage, and bravely she shows 'im the place,
And 'e gives it a proper inspection, wi' a 'eap o' surprise on 'is face.
Then 'e says wi' an accent o' Scotland: "Whit ye hae is a bile, Ah can feel,
But ye'd better consult the heid Dockter; they caw him Professor O'Niel.
He's special for biles and carbuncles. Ye'll find him in Room Sixty-three.
No charge, Ma'am. It's been a rare pleasure. Jist tell him ye're comin' from me."
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So Misses she thanks 'im politely, and 'unts up and down as before,
Till she comes to a big 'andsome room with "Professor O'Neil" on the door.
Then once more she plucks up her courage, and knocks, and a voice says: "All right."
So she enters, and sees a fat feller wi' whiskers, all togged up in white.
"I've got a big boil," says my Missis, "and if ye will kindly permit,
I'd like for to 'ave you inspect it; it 'urts me like all when I sit."
So blushin' as red as a beet-root she 'astens to show 'im the spot,
And 'e says wi' a look o' amazement: "Sure, Ma'am, it must hurt ye a lot."
Then 'e puts on 'is specs to regard it, and finally says wi' a frown:
"I'll bet it's as sore as the divvle, especially whin ye sit down.
I think it's a case for the Surgeon; ye'd better consult Doctor Hoyle.
I've no hisitation in sayin' yer boil is a hill of a boil."
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So Misses she thanks 'im for sayin' her boil is a hill of a boil,
And 'unts all around till she comes on a door that is marked: "Doctor Hoyle."
But by now she 'as fair got the wind up, and trembles in every limb;
But she thinks: "After all, 'e's a Doctor. Ah moosn't be bashful wi' 'im."
She's made o' good stuff is the Missis, so she knocks and a voice says: "Oos there?"
"It's me," says ma Leslie, an' enters a room which is spacious and bare.
And a wise-lookin' old feller greets 'er, and 'e too is togged up in white.
"It's the room where they coot ye," thinks Leslie; and shakes like a jelly wi' fright.
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"Ah got a big boil," begins Missis, "and if ye are sure you don't mind,
I'd like ye to see it a moment. It 'urts me, because it's be'ind."
So thinkin' she'd best get it over, she 'astens to show 'im the place,
And 'e stares at 'er kindo surprised like, an' gets very red in the face.
But 'e looks at it most conscientious, from every angle of view,
Then 'e says wi' a shrug o' 'is shoulders: "Pore Lydy, I'm sorry for you.
It wants to be cut, but you should 'ave a medical bloke to do that.
Sye, why don't yer go to the 'orsespittel, where all the Doctors is at?
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Ye see, Ma'am, this part o' the buildin' is closed for repairs;
Us fellers is only the pynters, a-pyntin' the 'alls and the stairs.

...fatozzig//........Old Pharmacy Trick for lancing a Boil.......

first,

apply hot wet washcloths

till it has formed a head and is softened.

this could take a couple of days

SECOND

find a GLASS coke bottle,,,,,,,yeah, the Old Kind

you will fill the bottle up with hot water, and pour it out several times

holding a dry washcloth around the hot coke bottle, pour out the hot water

and

put the mouth of the bottle over the head of the boil

as the air cools, it will create a vacuum which will core out the boil

Wow TomW - you are so smart! How do you learn these things anyway? I was also going to suggest lancing it. Sorry it's in such an inconvenient spot, Leslie. Ouch!

Great pictures yesterday Carolyn. Those aspen trees are spectacular. I'm excited for the colors to peak here. Except I know what comes after that....

That was a nice "Ode to Leslie" Tet

What year is your DD Slo? Is this her senior year? I miss the TP days. It was actually kind of pretty until you had to clean it up.

Like Tom, I've been competing with a guy for my favorite lane at 5:00 AM. He beat me to it this morning and all of the others were full with masters swimmers so I was forced to go into the well and put on a floatation belt to pool run for an hour. Plus I had to work around the senior "gentle water aerobics" class who were doing gentle things in the deep well.