I wear pro sports teams shirts or jerseys even if I've never played for those teams.

Heh. lol

 

Take the rest, you've had an absolutely incredible year. No need to risk a setback at this point in the season.

SETBACK!!  What exactly would you call a stress fracture?  It's impossible for me to be set back farther than I have been without being dead.  (Actually, that wouldn't be a setback, it would be a vast improvement.  I'll be going to bed now.)

 

 

I have the perfect line for your siggy: The glass is not only half empty, it has a hole in it. lol

There IS no f*#%ing glass.

(Yes, I know I said I was going to bed.  I can't sleep.  That's how bad I am at playing dead.  And since it's apparently not clearly discernible -- I am 100% serious.)

I got a shirt when I signed up for a race, nine months before the event.  They told me, "Wear the shirt all you can.  We need the publicity."  I didn't want to do it before the race, because it didn't feel right.  When I got injured and DNS, I really didn't want to wear the shirt.  But then I decided, "I paid for it.  It's mine.  Wear the damn thing."  And now I wear it all the time.  I got another shirt at a 6-12-24 hour race that had a 5k attached to raise some money to pay for the ultra.  The shirt only advertises the ultra, so I feel weird when I wear it, because it suggests that I'm capable of doing that kind of a race.  At the same time, I did run the 5k and I like the shirt (it's very bright, so on cloudy days I can be seen) so I wear it anyway.

Bluerun - it will get better, you know that.  Your brittle bones suck, big time, but you still manage to run, and to run well.  Next year you start over, and you'll get the fun of new races and new PRs.

I registered for two Boston before I actually ran my first in 2013. I bought gear each time, before race day, with the logo and the year on it. I changed my mind and decided not to go in 2011 and 2012 (I'm like that with running. I do what I want in the moment I'm in. I don't want to be bothered with rules and principles). Anyway, I wear the tank for the 2011 race all the time. It's my favorite. I haven't been stricken by lightning yet.

If my happiness depended on my running, I'd be stressed all the time. So many things that can happen and have happened. I try to not put all my eggs in one basket when it comes to life. But I'm older than you, bluerun, and I guess I'm just happy to be breathing at this point... The good thing about your running is that you started young, so you have many years ahead of you. Many of us here started at a much older age and we have a more limited window of opportunity. We all have to work with what we are given. That said, it will get better for you, don't despair. It always gets better. It's like a law or something...

Well I feel like I ran the hell out of my race yesterday, so there's that.  You know the sort of empty feeling where you're thirsty but drinking water doesn't seem to do the trick?

I just finished the last of three 13 hour days for conferences this year.  Thursday, Friday, and Monday were ridiculously long hours.  But I do have tomorrow and Wednesday off.

This pic from my race is cracking me up.  32 degrees at race time.  Would LRB and Dave even have been wearing clothes in that heat?

The tab on my bib was already starting to come off, and my chip was on it!  This was super scary for most of the race, that somehow I'd lose the rest of it and not notice.

 

All I had to do was become a member on the Adidas site (adidas.ca, that is) to benefit from the black friday deals all week long. Maybe the .com site is the same.

 

MTA: I checked, it seems they have the same deal.

MTA2: Not sure, turns out when I type adidas.com, it automatically redirects me to the adidas.ca site

I am already registered there and I didn't get an e-mail with this deal.  I got hosed.