Thanks, Jay.    I did 3.2 miles this morning taking it easy on my left hip/hamstring.   HOWEVER, for some reason the run didn't connect to Garmin Connect/RA, so it wasn't going to exist!  I don't know what happened.  My Garmin was connected and syncing and the run is on the watch, but won't go anywhere.  So- manual entry.   I hate when my electronics act up.   I did all the usual fixes.

Won $53 in one basketball pool and maybe some beer in another.

2.3 miles at lunch from work to make sure my Garmin would behave.  It did.  I have some sort of alcohol-related event after work and wanted a couple more miles since tomorrow is a travel day and will be an early, early treadmill mile or two.

Leslie - I had also thought of SOB as my possible next one but it's pretty challenging for a first 50K AND it's in summer time, which means it'll be hot and with our high risk of wildfires, I am not sure I want to risk running in smoke, you know? 
and on that note, for those not on FB so don't know, this upcoming 50K MAY be out. I'm not ruling it out just yet and am hoping that if nothing else I can do the 30K but my sports doc, short of having an MRI, is pretty certain I have a mild stress fx. No running for 2 wks, he'll treat all the surrounding tissue area in the event it is only soft tissue related (he opines mild sfx as well as soft tissue/tendon issues). He stripped out the tendon (hurt like a mofo!!), does laser therapy to promote faster healing and will do that again friday, a few times next week and then do his testing protocol for stress fx to see if it still hurts like it's in the bone, or not.  In the meantime, lots of elliptical or bike to keep my cardio fitness up since I can't run. 

leaving in about a hour for portland for a OSU/Honors College reception. back tomorrow.

Hot humid and windy AND a pollen storm but what the heck I went for a run anyway   I am all gritty now and can't wait till i get in the shower...3.5 miles along the balboa spillway trail.  Now to wait for the t-storms to roll on through.

Tammy, sorry to hear about your possible stress fracture. Keeping my fingers crossed that a couple of weeks off will take care of the problem.

Very windy day for a Hanson's strength workout (6x1 mile at 8min/mile with 0.25 mile recoveries, plus 1.5 miles wu & a 1.5 mile cd). North wind of 25 mph with gusts to 35mph. I started my run straight into the wind. About 2.5 miles in, I turned onto the trail thru a wildlife refuge. The trees in there helped lessen the wind some. At the turnaround, it was a breeze coming back.  10.5 miles total.

Paul

Thanks for all the comments and suggestion for me and my husband. It is difficult to go through and talk about. I don’t really think he would go to an in-patient facility nor would AA would be an option. However, I have been in Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-based 12 step program, ever since a couple from church started it back in 2010. One Sunday in church she spoke before the whole congregation about her own struggle with alcohol and how hard it had been for her to find help. She had kept her struggles secret just like I was doing. Her words hit home with me because I too had been abusing alcohol for quite a while. I felt that God was offering me a chance to conquer my addiction once and for all. It took great courage to come to that first meeting and I was extremely nervous. I remember thinking, “If this doesn’t work, then what?” It took courage to take that first step. The thought of going to A.A. was terrifying for me but CR is held in a familiar, safe place. I wanted to stop drinking but I didn’t really want to give it up, I wanted to control it. I had a couple of relapses where I tried to do it my way but it finally realized once and for all that I had to abstain totally. It has actually given me more freedom than trying to set limits.

After a year or so, I volunteered to plan the worship time at CR and asked MrStarr to come to CR lead the songs for me. He wouldn’t stay more than 10-15 minutes but he was there. After 1 ½ years he admitted that he was one of “those people” and needed help too. We got along so much better in those four years than ever before. He suffered from severe anxiety and depression and it took a year for him to recover. He was back to his old self but then started drinking too. He wouldn’t listen to me about not drinking with the meds he takes. I don’t like to read about the scary stories with tragic outcomes but know that it’s a real possibility, thanks for sharing them SteveP and RunnerKSA. I do plan to take care of myself and be positive and encouraging around him. I will not try to cover for him anymore either. He didn’t drink at all yesterday or so far today so that's a start. I think He will come to CR with me tomorrow night but won’t stay for the sharing group. The lesson is Admit and that will be good for him to hear.

We are getting 6 – 9” of snow with 40 mph winds so I came home for lunch and am staying put. We have a lot of work to do in the basement remodel project. I’ll do what I can with my one arm.

Leslie and Mariposai, thanks for the offers to chat, that’s a great idea!

Hang in there, Starr. I think you've got a good approach and mind-set for handling this, but ultimately it's up to him, right? And 6-9" of snow, seriously? I'd stay home, too!

Tammy, noooooo! I have to tell ya though, if it is a stress fracture, 2 weeks isn't going to do much but get you stabilized. I'm in week #12 since I stopped running because of it (although I probably ran on it a week or two too long) and have been slowly building back up since the third week in March. I still feel it, but it's more a dull ache sporadically and no real pain. But I'm keeping a close watch on it and any sign of pain will send me back a week or two. I've got a 5k on May 5 and hope I'm ready for it.

Jay, hard to explain why they'd want to promote development in a flood-prone area. But I can't explain any of the environmental actions being taken these days. It seems decisions are made with profit motive only, with no thought to long-term consequences.

As forecast, it's chilly and windy today. Brought my gym bag for a ride on the elliptical later, but I'm also feeling the call of a rest day at some point.

Howdy folks!

So, I decided to run on the beach this morning.  I chose to wear shoes because I don't normally run barefoot and I discovered with my V5Fs that you need to build up to longer miles if you don't want a sore Achilles.  Today I discovered that 1) running in sand is harder than it looks and 2) it is really hot here, even at 8 in the morning.  So, after 3.5 sand-sucking, sweat-dripping, eye-stinging miles, I gave up and headed in to the air-conditioned fitness center to finish my run.  I know, I am a wuss, right?

6.4 miles total.  Plus 4 more beach-walking miles later.