I can do it. I will do it NINE times!

Ran industrial road out to the furniture store and back from my house in the afternoon. Another perfect weather day - just short sleeves and shorts! Glad to run, but it wasn't all that great. After taking the weekend off, my foot was feeling pretty good, at least until about mile 2. The new shoes are not so good, the first .5 they felt fine, but soon they made my arches hurt (all the while I was hoping they'd feel better the more I ran) and by mile 2 my outer right foot was hurting lots again. At the turn-around, I stopped and took them off and ran for a mile with no shoes, and after a little of that they hurt too, so I put the shoes on again for the last couple miles and made myself finish up w/o stopping again even though my feet were feeling even worse. When I got to my house, I was glad to stop for my feet, but I wanted to run more because the rest of me felt awesome. Walking around is hurting like before I took the weekend off. Curse my feet! And those shoes! At least I have Christmas junk food and presents tomorrow to keep my mind off my lameness.

Merry Christmas Eve!

What an awesome Christmas Day!  

Tonight, I ran the same run as yesterday, but used my old DS Trainers instead of the new shoes and my feet felt better - still the foot hurt for the last couple miles more, but better than the new shoes. If SGRC is open tomorrow, I'll return them and see if another pair there will work better. Since it's Christmas Day, I ran happy and really fast! And I wore my new lightweight and compact windbreaker/jacket that my brother gave me and it was perfect! It can fold up to about a 2" cube! Also, I randomly counted how many cars were on the road (total) during my run and there were 47. Great Christmas run, I love running! (DST 432)

Merry Christmas Everybody! 

After returning my new shoes, I ended up picking the DS Trainers again. So we'll see how they work! While I was at SGRC, Locke Ettinger came in and he's a physical therapist (or something similar), so he took a look at my lame foot and he says my problem is Peroneal Tendonitis with some bruising. Yuk. So I'm going to back off a bit on my miles until it feels back to normal. 

Before dinner, I went on an out-and-back 5 on river road. Not excellent, not awful, foot hurting, mostly uneventful. (DS2 5.1) 

Club run tonight and boy was it ever chilly out! Had a really nice run, went out 2.85 with the guys, then back by myself.  The downhill on the way out was fun and fast with a couple of mid-6:00 miles, then on the way back up I kept it at around 7:30-40 pace. Foot was a bit better today, it hurt a bit for all of the run, but only hurt lots during the last mile. Hopefully by next week I'll be able to get my mileage up a little more without issues. I'm sick of running only shorter runs. Avg 7:10/mi. (DS2 10.8)

AP loop this afternoon, went a bit slower than yesterday's fastness - 7:38/mi avg - still felt reasonably good, foot felt about the same as yesterday, maybe a titch better - I think I'll try 7 tomorrow... (DS2 16.5)

Morning run from the Dixie Center with Marcie, Cheri and Stacy. Felt good, not really very eventful, but it was fun to run with a group of ladies (Thanks Marcie!) and chat on an easy run. They ran the Painter's course, but I decided against it with my foot being how it is, so I cut out the out-and-back and the Bloomington loop for a shorter run. I was hoping it was 7, but it was shorter, so only 6.5 for me. Avg. 7:41/mi (DS2 23)