fetch- sorry, that sucks!  biking might be OK; my guess is you'll know right away if it isn't

8 miles and ~ 2000' gain for Tiny Elvis and I; thought we might have got some good heat training in as well, but when I got back to the truck it said 70 degrees 

No running. My cold turned for the worse, so I've been taking short walks and long naps. Feeling like a truck hit me, so I am taking it easy.

Marie-- ouch. I broke my toe, chipped the bone at the joint attaching into my foot (sorry, that's as technical as I can get) and I was out for over a month, almost 6 weeks before normal running. The pain wasn't too bad, except when I landed.  However, there was concern about running hindering the healing and then needing a surgical repair (the doctor's advice).  I hope yours gets in order a lot faster.

Now there's thunderstorms moving into the area. I'm looking forward to it since I don't have any running plans.

wcrunner: Sounds about right to me . Wishful thinking...

AT, I broke the pinkie toe, splintering the first bone of the toe, the one closest to the base joint near the metatarsal. I was not sure if it was broken, as there was hardly any bruising, but the pain was stinging, so I went for the X-rays. The doc said I also had torn off a ligament from the bone, but it should all heal up fine again. They gave me a "shoe" and recommended taping the toe.

I have had similar injuries twice before, once on each foot, just more severe, with broken metatarsals/metatarsal heads, ripped and dislocated joints, and multiple toe bones fractured. Both these times, the foot was atrociously bruised. Seems I just can't guess the size of my feet right, or where they will land.  It always (including this time) happened when I crashed my pinkie toe into a corner, just walking, bending it way to the side, thus breaking the bones and ripping the tendons/ligaments. I consider myself lucky this time that the metatarsal is not involved and the joint is not dislocated.

Both previous times, the injury healed up without complications and no treatment other than taping the foot and toe and avoiding putting weight on it for a while, but it would be 3-6 months before I could wear shoes again. So 3-4 weeks this time sounds almost blissful. Considering the severity of the previous injuries, I am surprised that I can run 100-milers (and do the training for them) without pain or the injury acting up again. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will heal well again this time, you never know.

JThat’s it.....Training is done and taper mode begins....will see how good the training was in two weeks.  Ran 19 miles  in the “canyons” on WS trail.  It was either hiking up or slamming the quads on way down. We ran into some jeepers and they gave us a beer.  It was 4 ish mikes all down hill to the creek and 2.5 hike back up to start....so what the hell we drank our beers at the creek.  Ok I had a coors light....Rose choose an 805.

We thought it was going to be hotter than hell but we had a huge thunderstorm come though last night and everything was nice a damp.

Couch:  how did you do it?  Hmm they mentioned tendons...take the time off..let it heal.

Runtrail: Sorry about the cold...

Thanks Queen.  I hope it’s on the cold side too!!!!! But since I’m signed up it’ll probably be a record heat wave.

Gatsby how was you 100k.... didn’t realize it was that far?  Was this your first 100k?