Thanks, as always, for the recap.

Raining outside (we are getting the edge of the tropical storm) and we all know what that means!   3.1 treadmill miles.  Getting humid in my basement, but I got it done.  2.1 treadmill miles after work.

Hope you northerners are enjoying all that "low humidity."  No such luck here; dripping damp out there today.

Glad to see Connor McDavid get the big awards last night; he deserved them.  With Crosby losing out, it felt a bit like a changing of the guard. I'm still not sold on the idea of hockey in Vegas but what do I know?

Repeat of yesterday: knee/hip exercises + core work + a 20 minute 3:1 run/walk.  It's not a great time to be walking since the flies are out in full force.  I want to run further just to get away from them.

ETA: Okay, this is a little freaky.  I just realized my 5 individual minutes of running today are at the exact same pace as my 5 minutes of running yesterday (and 8 of the 10 are at exactly a 7:42 pace):

• yesterday: 8:20 / 7:42 / 7:42 / 7:42 / 7:42
•        today: 8:20 / 7:42 / 7:42 / 7:42 / 7:42

Maybe I'm just bored but that seems amazing to me....in a completely random and meaningless way.  Maybe I should play the lottery today.

But how would you choose your numbers?

Uh...how many do I need?

8-2-0-7-4-2

A sort of random question that's been bugging me for a while--I don't pay much attention to it, but does anyone know how the iPhone health app calculates/measures steps and distance?  for instance, the day of setting up for our relay, it said i did 18000 steps and 6.1 miles.  my normal walking step is very close to and very consistently 3 feet, which comes out a little over 10 miles.   Any help?

maybe this on iPhone?

it helps.  better than i found while searching.  confirms suspicions that it does not use the gps function.  can't find anywhere where the stride length is assumed/entered, though.

Tramps - add me to the list of those who think you need to play the Lotto today...

No rain here, but I tweaked my knee slightly yesterday going over the baby gate we use to keep the dogs in the kitchen, and I thought a day of rest was in order, runningwise, so swimming it was - 46 times across the pool, or 1150 yards.

TammyinGP in DW's books it does not count.  All I got credit for was the roses I gave her.

coastwalker hope the hip feels better soon.

RunnerKSA good call not breaking rule #1. Still a lobotomy being on a TM is no fun.

stumpy77 an excuse for dinner out? How about nobody cooked anything? Works at my place. About that iPhone. It would not work if it needed GPS. GPS is probably not accurate enough. Stand still outside and GPS will say you are moving due to measurement error. Most people do a lot of their walking indoors, where the phone cannot get a GPS satellite reading. All in, that means it is stuck trying to use the phone bouncing a certain way to guess you just walked a step.

Tramps if not the lottery you could dump everything you own into a penny stock. Might work out okay. Or if not, well, probably no worse than the lottery so there is that. 

Jlynne quite true you are clear of all rule violations.

I have two hours at the airport between flights so figured I would check in here and add a bit to yesterday's blood letting story. I am on my way to a conference in Whistler BC via mariposai's place. I am flying into Spokane and she is retrieving me there (or her DH is, I forget who got stuck with this assignment). Then I spend the weekend hiking and eating cherries with them and from there go to Vancouver and then to Whistler and back home the next day. A lot of miles for a 20 minute presentation I will give next Wednesday. At least the trip to visit mariposai and company will be fun!

About yesterday's Red Cross story: I check in. Go through the question list. They test my blood and we are set to go. I warn the nurse that I am really difficult to draw blood from and need someone very experienced. She laughs it off and says that means she will be doing it.  I should have walked out then and there and saved everyone time and me time and pain. She checks my veins, says they are surrounded by muscle but that should not be an issue. Really? After I just warned you whatever is going on there might be an issue? She plunges in a needle. It hurts. She notices and indicates it should not. A few more stabs, all of which produce more pain than they should. Very little blood is coming out. She says she is going to get her supervisor. He comes over, complains that this is a challenge for him given the way the beds are set up since he is left handed. Oh great, a supervisor called to help who cannot really help. A few more stabs. He says the pain should subside and to let him know if it does not. Well, eventually the pain does subside. Blood flow is slow but he thinks okay.

Nobody pays attention to me for some time. Eventually someone comes over and notices hardly any blood is going into the bag. Actually, just a quarter of a bag. Before the guy can do anything I ask him if I am going to time out. You only have so many minutes from start to finish. If the bag does not fill by then they pull the needle. Send you home and toss whatever they did get. He looks at the clock and says there are only 2 minutes left and there is no chance I will make it. (He also comments that he should check the clock first when coming over to the donors. Yes that would be a good idea. If I did not have time out problems in the past I would not have known about the clock and instead he would have stabbed me a few more times all for nothing.) The end result was they did not get any blood. I have a bruised arm after quite a few painful needle stabs and lost a couple of hours. This is the second time I have tried to unsuccessfully donate due to their screw ups since they closed their permanent facility in the town next door. One more strike and I am done with donation attempts until I leave CT.