gimpy foot

Through no fault of my running, my left foot is rather messed up. While screwing around on our way up to the festival floor at the Great American Beer Festival on the 17th, I was showing off my "parkour" skills. The rather large dude behind me decided he wanted to show me up and I turned around to see him coming down on the top of my left foot with all 300 lbs he had to offer. I walked it off and nursed it with plenty of delicious 1 oz servings of beer for the rest of the evening. The pain has come and gone and seems worse the past couple days than it had all last week.

I haven't been able to run on it since and don't know when it will be ready again. No discoloration just a dull ache to let me know that it's still not right.

catching up

8/31 - 4 mi around the golf course

9/2 - del mar/solana beach; ran through the fog and down to the beach. Amazing the feeling of running right at sea level. Floated up what few hills I encountered and ran hard up a set of stairs that went from street level down to the beach over 4 or 5 flights.

9/11 - had some trouble readjusting after vacation but finally decided to get out later in the morning for a run. 4 mi around the golf course with the dog.

9/12 - Set out a little before 8am with the idea of just going long. Hit a couple of trails that I had previously not been on before and made my way over to Palmer Park. Ran the Greencrest over to Austin Bluffs and started back towards home. Mixed in a few walking breaks on the way home and ran out of water as it started getting hot. 12 mi, 2:30.