Anybody watch the sitcom "Reba"? At the end of the show a thingy comes on and says "Acme!" I try to imitate it whenever possible. Yeah, I know....one of my many talents.
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The whole world said I shoulda used red but it looked good to Charlene in John Deere Green!!
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Run for fun? What the hell kind of recreation is that? quote from Back to the Fut III
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Anyone who thinks running is boring should try pool running or swimming laps. Meg
Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way - Run often and run long, but never outrun your Joy of running!
Tim - Glad they didn't have that stuff in the pool that makes pee turn purple!
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"Enjoy yourself. Your younger days never come again." 100yo T. Igarashi to me in geta at top of Mt. Fuji (8/2/87)
tim, don't wait until the June RnR to come out here, . . . or I'll send my foot doctor friend out there. In the meantime, and I'm not kidding about this, start walking around, up stairs, etc. barefoot to strengthen your foot. I wish I could give you mine. Even if you have to run on one foot, there's no way divechief and I are going to let you beat his seven month elliptical record. No matter what, you're our guest of honor at the RnR.
Prince of Fatness
does almost complete rupture of the achilles of the heel sound so good?
Not at it at all.
Maniac 505
and when you see the doc, don't just let him tell you what's wrong and how bad it is, etc. ask him why something like that could happen just doing what you've been doing in all your training. Maybe there's some other foot muscles that weren't strong enough to help out the strain on the Achilles after 16 miles, or maybe Achilles had to compensate too much for something missing somewhere else. Either way, it would seem that walking barefoot within anypain threshhold would strengthen the foot without further damaging the Achilles. It's not the same but there's a half dozen or more runners on our runningbarefoot.org group who became runners again after trying the running barefoot as a last resort even though they were told not to walk/run barefoot. Maybe we'll get the crew at fancesca's to focus our energies on your foot at some appointed time Thursday evening.