Fun run. I haven't run this far in well over a year. Smooth dragged me along for the last for. Thank you Smooth! I was getting a bit tired toward the end and was ready to be done. We actually got back to the cars with a quarter mile or so left but my watch had died almost at that very moment. I didn't know how far to go and back to get 14 so I said good enough. Pretty good excuse, eh? Anyway, it felt good but I was ready to be done. Smooth went on to get 18 and her friends Wendy and Karen along with Maynard ran the first 10. It was cold today and with all the smog, the sun actually looked like a full moon. It was a little creepy. The smog doesn't bother me as it does some but it does make me cough a little at the end of a hard run. What I don't like is that it makes it always cold. The sun can't find its way in to warm things up. The 34 miles this week is the also the most I've run in well over a year. I feel really good. The inside of my ankles are a little soar. I'm used to some support on the inside of my shoes and the Altras and the high mileage Elixers don't provide that. The muscles and tendons there on the inside of my feet have to work to provide the support that my shoes have in the past. It's not a big deal but I don't want it to be. | 