Andie--Good you at least have a diagnosis. How soon until you're back running?

Here's a story! Can't swear it's good, though.

Once upon a time, I realized I had over 350 miles on my Kinvaras and that was probably the reason the little triangles on the soles were wearing down. I ordered a new pair. I figured it would take a while for them to arrive what with international shipping and all, but as the weeks went on I began to wonder if they had decided to walk the whole way.

This morning, I went to the post office in the grocery store up the street to mail a small package, then went over to the other side to shop for food. While I was picking up a can of tomatoes, the woman from the post office came up to me with a package slip. "This is you, yes? I saw your name and address on the package you just mailed."

Yep, that's me.

"We have a package for you--it's been here for some time. There was something wrong with the address, and we were about to mail it back."

My Kinvaras! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

And if I hadn't stopped in to mail that package this morning, they'd have been lost to me forever, disappeared into the void of "undeliverable as addressed."

The moral of the story is...uh. Always mail packages when you're expecting something and it's taking a long time to arrive? Be nice to the post office clerks and they might be inclined to check on something that's niggling at the back of their mind? If you're truly meant to have a new pair of Kinvaras, Fate will bring them to you even if they're mis-addressed? 

Whatever. The end.

Epilogue: I took them out for an hour's spin. They felt good.

QOTD: Hasn't come up yet. Knock wood.

 

 

Nice story, majope. Did you get a good deal on the shoes?

 

 

 Not really. Price for the shoes themselves was $58, which isn't bad (but still more than the $50 I paid for my first pair in the mall at home). Then tack on the $22 shipping and that makes them $80 total, which is a bit of an ouchie, but (a) can't find Saucony at all in this town and (b) the running shoes they do have cost about double their price in the States.

So, not a bargain, but could be worse.

Hope you get your run in before the rain hits!

Good morning!

I managed 7 miles today. Nothing noteworthy or special about it. 

Andie- Sorry about the PF. That really sucks. And THANKS!

majope- How many people live in that town? 7? That's amazing.

Couch- Good luck with your run. 

LB- Good luck if you decide to run. Enjoy the rest if you don't!

QOTD: Almost never. I've never met a PT that really knew anything about running. But I have an amazing sports doctor. I don't listen to him either. 

Hi Everyone,

rfa: hope the “belly” PF goes away soon.

Majope:  I like the moral of the story.

FTYC and LB2: Have good runs later.

Lace: nice un-noteworthy 7.

Birdwell: enjoy the XT.

Hmmmmm story time . . .

There is a small group of folks I run with, we then have coffee afterwards.  Small coffee bar in the corner of a supermarket (we start/finish the runs in the parking lot).  They meet every day, I only join them on weekends.  Very nice older woman who works the coffee bar always has a smile and nice things to say.  Well her husband of many years died the other day after a long bout with cancer.  So the little informal running group decided we’d take up a little collection and give her a card, which we did this morning.  She didn’t open the card, but we think there will be some tears when she does, the gang was also very generous.

I did an easy 5 miles this morning, very very windy here, some gusts up to 45 – 50 mph.  Some trees down and local power outages. A good early morning run though.

qotd: I TRY to listen.

Tonight, I am being "that girl" and I'm sandwiching 6 miles in between work and happy hour/girl's night. Luckily, the hostess is understanding of my crazy enough to take some of my clean clothes and let me use her shower when I get to her place. Having taken off the past 2 days off (not counting 1.5 miles on Tuesday) due to lingering hammy issues and holiday parties,  I really need to get back out there today. 

We are going to be watching the Grinch tonight at girls' night! 

runfastandie- sorry to hear about the PF, hope you heal fast! 

QOTD: I'm young lucky enough to have not had injuries bad enough to warrant a dr/PT visit. I have a feeling this will catch up with me eventually (knock on wood!) but I've been an athlete my whole life and haven't suffered anything more serious than a broken finger. 

Good Morning!  Had a great run yesterday afternoon, really attacked the hills on the route-nothing like the feeling of getting to the top a steep hill knowing you get to go down!  Have an easy 6 mile planned along the Yellowstone this afternoon.

Story- ran w/ a buddy on Saturday (he generally runs with me a couple of times a week and is getting a little faster each time out), we ran a new 13-ish mile loop that involved about 4 miles of no trail and he was pretty pooped when we finally topped out and hit the trail again (not that I wasn't ).  We had about 4 miles to go and he got his second wind and started pulling away, no second wind hit me and I had to let him go.  I could see him every now and again and I knew I wasn't going to catch up- just then an idea popped up.  There was a faint trail that took off that could potentially cut off a 1/4 mile or so, so I took it.  Now with purpose I did get a second wind and really hit it.  The trail had a lot of snow on it in places and slowed me down.  I was completely out of sight of my buddy so I had no idea if this was going to work or backfire and add even more time to my run.  I finally connected back into the main trail and no fresh tracks  I beat him back to the truck by about 2 minutes, he had a look of wonderment when he saw me waiting at the truck.  Cheating, yeah.... but home field advantage has to count for something

qotd: knock on wood haven't had to go to one, but I think I would listen

Good morning folks.  Today's my last day of work until next year!  

Finally starting to see some progress with the shin.  I haven't ran since, well, I don't even remember.  Supposed to go to my running study tomorrow but I don't think there is any running on the first day.  I'm hoping that by next week I can be back out on the trails.  I may try to do some hiking before then though. 

QOTD:  I try to avoid the doctor.  I hate going.  So I will put up a big N/A for this QOTD