Mornin' everyone.

Thursday’s workouts:
Jlynne (1 hour on the elliptical + 30 min of weights at the Y)
Tramps (Hip/knee exercises + core + 3.5 EZ miles)
Stumpy (3.1 lake loop miles)
RunnerKSA (3.2 morning miles + 2.1 post-work TM miles)
BerthaSlayer (8 miles, including 4 w/fartleks)
Catwhoorg (5 lunchtime, pop-up shower miles + 10 pre-torrential rain evening bike miles)
Holly (51. morning miles in 63° with different, blister-helping shoes)
Mariposai (7.23 steady-paced miles)
Tomwhite (40 min bike ride + 40 min pool run with letters)
Evanflein (6 EZ miles planned)
Buehrle (3 round-the-college miles, pre-shower + mass, and Wawa)

Flats (8+ gym miles - too much H&H outside)

Evanflein (6.2 miles in dry, 78° temps)

Mike (10 post-work miles with sore big toe)

Good point about not dozing off, Jlynne. How’d the slime-making go?

Tramps, the TENS unit is under your control, and you can make it as comfortable or as strong as you want. It does help, most of the time.

So, the consensus is that Tet does run barefoot? 

Quite the SB, Tomwhite. I’m also glad you and your buddy didn’t mix shooting and beer.

I’m also always looking for those faster shoes, RunnerKSA. Aren’t we all?

Tet, how can you (and why would you) run barefoot in Yogi slippers? Thanks for the sandals and air fares discussions.

Good luck in the 10K trail race tomorrow, Tammy. Have fun.

I’m glad your blister is healing, Holly.

I’m sorry for your frustrating meetings too, Mariposai. I suppose we all have them now and again.

I hope you got home safely, TC.

Good Shoe Goo tips all around, and interesting shoe-wear discussion. What does Shoe Goo do for you if the midsole in your shoes is shot and there is no more cushioning/flexibility there? Or is that the time to 'repurpose' them (as yard work shoes, in my case)?

Right you are Evanflein - the key when you find good shoes is to stock up on them before they get discontinued or ‘updated’.

Your dad was, indeed, ahead of his time. Buehrle. And you won't realize how young 54 is until you become... Some of the changes are more positive than others, but we should be embracing the process, whatever it brings our way. As Evanflein said, the alternative is much worse.

Mike, that's great news that your friend isn't as bad off as feared! What a relief for him and his family. What's going on with your big toe?

We have 2 families/7 people arriving for the long weekend tomorrow. I'll be spending a lot of time in the kitchen or by the grill. We're expecting lots of H&H for the next couple of days, so we'll probably be at the shore or inside in some AC. 3 of us will be racing the 4 On The Fourth in York, ME on Tuesday. I hope to be in better shape (see below) by then.

I took another morning off today after getting beat up in yesterday's PT session. It's frustrating not knowing the cause of my current right side hip/IT/shin pains, so I'll just keep trying different exercises, stretches, etc. until I get to something that works. Strangest thing is that the times I hurt the least are when I'm working out. So I assume that relative inactivity is causing some strange and unusual and painful tightening up, but that is as far as I can take it so far.

Go get 'em, Subdood!

07/01 SubDood - Afton Trail Race 25k, Afton, MN

Have a greta Friday!

Jay

Jay--Sounds like a busy weekend for you.  Interesting about your hip/shin pain.  My knee is sort of like that; hurts more later after a run than it does during it.  So is running making it worse or better?

Mike--at least some short-term encouraging news for your friend.  That's good.  Hope the toe's better, too.

RCG--don't complain about the white hair; at least you have some. Some of us are putting on more and more sunscreen up there, if you know what I mean.   (MASH?  Your dad had good taste.)

Early morning MRI on the knee for me and now I need to get work done, so I'm calling it a rest day.  I stopped at Wawa on the way home to fill up the truck and a couple of cans for the lawn tractor.  No donuts or coffee. (I feel like Wawa should be paying us for all this free advertising.)

Have a great weekend.

WaWa is a chain that started in eastern PA and has spread to other mid-Atlantic states and Florida.  There are a few stores in other states.  It is a much nicer 7-11 type store.  Good made to order sandwiches and breakfast foods (fast food but good) and packaged snack foods that are pretty fresh and have healthy options.  Good selection of TastyKakes and other snack foods.  Good coffee (I'm not a drinker, but I'm told this) and soda machines.  Big cooler selections.  Clean stores.  The recently built stores have gas pumps with good prices.

My son spent plenty of $$$ at the Wawa stores on the UPenn campus while he was in college.  There was always a WaWa gift card in his Christmas stocking.

https://www.wawa.com/

4 miles today at GMP. Well only three at GMP but the fourth was close enough.

Later I will attempt my pushups.

I hope your mom is OK!

I never liked the taste of coffee- not even coffee ice cream.  My morning drink was diet cola, but I'm not supposed to have those due to bone density issues.  I still drink a moderate amount of diet cola, but try to do more tea and iced tea.

I like coffee.

It was HOT and HUMID...JTWILI.  at 8:30 p.m. 81f feels like 87f with 81% humidity.  The air hung thick as thieves.  It was hard to breath...but I did for 3.1 miles around the workplace.  I was thinking of going out around 7 tonight...it was 87f feels like 98f then.  Glad I waited

Erika - good luck to your mom, especially if your dad’s there when you can visit.
did they go up during the war or after to teach at the UA?
Neat to have them retire in Fairbanks, that’s for sure.
I bet 99% of their friends went south.
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Actually, Fairbanks is the reason I have an aversion to coffee I would otherwise like because my mother like it so much in those days.  In fact, I still like the smell of it but, after drinking too much coffee in the morning, when my pilot friend took off from the Fairbanks airport and, a couple of hours later, had to land his Piper on skis on a little unnamed lake along the Yukon river for the inevitable pit stop, there was some engine trouble and we had to spend the next two days, and nights, waiting for parts to be dropped.  Fortunately, the survival gear included down sleeping bags but I somehow came away from it not liking spam that much I used to like on boy scout camp outs.
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You’re so lucky to have your mother almost 35 years longer than I did, . . . and, though I haven’t seen my sister in a dozen years, I’m so lucky to have reconnected with her a couple of years ago in spite of serious tension between her DH and me. In this regard did you know, Jeanne, that,your sister’s sudden passing spurred me to reconnect, after all. We talked for more than an hour today. So sorry for you but thank you so much for me for you sharing like you did. Don’t stop.
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ps KSA - you have more shoes at one time than the five I’ve had in my whole life.
I bought four pair* from 1977 until 1990 when I started running barefoot and my sister felt sorry for me and bought me a pair of laceless, slipper-like, Nike Presta’s for one of early RnR’s when we were in San Diego visiting our father retired down there.  They were comfortable enough for regular wearing around but kind of sorry I didn’t run any marathons in them. ^{*(Nike Waffle-stompers, Brooks Vantage, Aididas cross-fit, Saucony somethings)}

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Jay - with 40,000 runners crowding the 12k of the annual Bloomsday, there’s always some goofballs sporting tutu’s, batmans, butterfly wings, etc.   Ever since a couple of years ago when my GS responded to my approval of his “bare feet” out in the yard (that DD doesn’t like him to do) with: “they’re not bear feet, they’re people feet,” I’ve taken the Yogi slippers (reinforced with shoe-goo’ed Vibrams, of course) on cub scout hikes, etc.  I probably enjoyed it more than he and his friends did.  Hmm, I wonder what mariposie really thought about bear feet chasing her butterfly wings.  Unfortunately, or fortunateIy couldn’t catch up.  :Probably better than when I was a Japanese monk.