Holly - don’t know Ohio laws but your DD might be lucky the car

wasn’t seized and forfeited as an instrument of crime as some

overly zealous prosecutors have been know to do with entire

fishing vessels found with illegal crab.

Good luck.

Posie - good luck for another sub-five marathon.

Wasn’t your no. 1 we did in Portland 5:01?

Richland sounds flat but I doubt it.
ps -enjoy your five hour marathons as long as you can.
In the first of many, many vows that getting older
has caused me to break, if I would have kept a vow
never to run another marathon if it ever took five hours

to run 26.2 miles, I’d’ve missed the last 166 marathons

from 2003's first fiver at age 60 to the present.

13 miles pedaling for me today - what’s a old guy who's mostly been reduced to regular walking supposed to do in the fall splendor and sunshine that will soon turn into the impending dark and dreary winter when he can’t run 13 miles around the island at the drop of a hat anymore like my total hero Wildchild can still hammer out even up in the high altitude?  Why, do it on bike, or course.  I just wish I could ride Tramps' 20-or-40 mile rides at the drop-of-a-hat like in those days too. Have fun Blue-Ridging. I have no idea what it would be like so don't hesitate to post some pics, if possible

BTY - I may have broken vows to stop running at the five hour limit and never go into an indoor fitness club as long as the outside is still here but one vow I will never break is doing laps in a chlorinated pool as long as there are still lakes around for summertime swimming. However, I am very, very impressed with swimming so many laps now way more than my annual triathlon distances and your flip turns that would be as anathema to me as unnatural as wearing wet suits.  It’s a lot more impressive for you to learn them than for a kid of any age. I enjoy your impressive swimming stats almost as much as being in awe and swooning every time wildchild posts anything.

Thanks all for your nice words - I think I dodged a bullet and the ankle seems to be ok. I easy jogged 2.5 miles this morning before heading to the airport, have been on it all day, and it's good - it's barely noticeable, and feels better than it did all yesterday. Whew.

Austin is dreary and wet and cold! Lol. The rain has mostly stopped until Thursday, and I'd like to get in a nice loop run tomorrow but I switched on the local news and they are talking about flooding around ladybird lake and the path (of course I have no idea where, it's 10 miles total...) So I guess I'll find out tomorrow And I will go by the bat bridge too! I suppose if its flooded I'll turn around and go up by the capitol or something. And then hit Voodoo donuts... (I actually have a good part of the morning free. So, yay!)

Twocat - out of the orthotic!! Karen - out of the boot! So exciting! Take it easy, folks.

Got out of work late because I had a settlement conference for a Mississippi case all afternoon and I had to be available by phone to hand over the $$$.  Finally got it settled and did pretty well.

Gym after that-  1.3 miles on the treadmill slow running and 15 minutes on the AMT zero runner machine.  Some weights and now I'm home!

Thanks for the encouraging words, Tet!  I'm probably immune to chlorinated water now after spending so many hours in the pool as a tow-headed youngun.

After 300 yards of warmup I did 4 repeats of the 100yd IM (butterfly/back/breast/crawl), then 200 yards of backstroke as a cool down.

Each IM interval was 4:00 - from 1:30 to 1:37 for the IM and from 2:23 to 2:30 for rest recovery HR to ~120.

The starts were from inside the pool, so diving in on the butterfly will definitely improve things.  In fact, I spent the last 20:00 or so after the cooldown practicing racing dives off of the starting blocks.  Just getting up there and not falling over was an accomplishment - no joke.  I haven't done racing dives since my childhood.  Freaked me out a little - thought I'd fall over sideways.

My daughter, a swim instructor. videoed me diving in and swimming a couple of strokes of butterfly.  It would appear to the casual observer that my strategy is to eliminate competition by literally eliminating the competition. I will see if I can get part of the video on here.

The last time I had this much fun swimming, I wasn't old enough to drive home afterward. 

anneb I almost forgot! One word, Franklin's. You may need to pool resources with others to have someone stand in line for you.

4 EZ

I had an hour between kid pickups today and did a short run then, so I could save my late afternoon for work. More Bat Boy stuff. Did you know Bat Boy helped the US military find Saddam Hussein's hidey hole? It was on the cover of a magazine!

Anne, good news on the ankle!

Anneb, I hope that Voodoo stop was worth it.

RunnerKSA, congrats on your success today.

Jeo618, How on earth can you run 10k after eating dinner?

BTY, I can't wait to see the  video.

What a lovely picture of our artist Erika. I am a friend of hers on Facebook. What an artist she is.

SurlyBill, Bat Boy, do explain...

Twocat, I celebrate your independence from your crutches and will always cheer you on to the next chapter of recovery.

After work today I welcome the freedom and the beauty of a gorgeous fall weather to go out and run 8 miles. My mariposai wings have to take advantage of running as much as I can this week, since next week is back to taper week for a marathon next weekend.

What is not to love about my frontier running route tonight.

That well-known MTA song has a really interesting less-known backstory.

And speaking of music, I thought this was an interesting graph. Other than 8-tracks and ringtones, my music use pretty much mirrors this pattern. Gave away all my vinyl, can't remember the last CD I bought, but I'm a Spotify fan these days.

21 on the bike this morning.

Busy week as I scramble to finish up things before we leave Thursday for a week of cycling and hiking in the Blue Ridge.  See you all on the other side!

Speaking of music...the Stray Cats are heading back to the studio and planning a tour. I've purchased their music on every format. I still feel the rush of powering a hybrid bike to the trails, running 6 trail miles on a sub 40 when I hear the energy from a string bass a guitar and a drum. When I'm working after hours, very few things motivate as well as Batmobile.