Getting back to Boston

First 10-miler since Boston, now that the rain finally let up. Once I loosened up, it went pretty well. Negative split, 9:06 average. But I had to go and make it interesting. Caught my toe on the sidewalk just past St. Ed's on Rogers and splatted. No face plant, but scraped up my left elbow pretty well, somehow; also left knee and left hand. Right side unscathed. Also seemed to land on left ribcage, somehow; maybe that landed on top of the elbow, not sure. Anyway, a decent run. I'll get in some track work tomorrow night and then coast into the 10K Saturday.

Last night's date postponed; Vicky had family issues of some sort. Somehow this does not surprise me. Still think there are possibilities there, but it's disappointing. Suffice it to say, to no one's surprise, my love life is in disarray, to put it mildly.

Going to Bryant this afternoon, I guess. Get the parental visit out of the way. Probably will go to baseball game Thursday night, then back up there Saturday for the race. Lot of traveling this week at $3.79 a gallon, but whatcha gonna do?

Was gonna try to run some intervals tonight to get ready for the 10K. Uh, no. Legs not loose, ribs still hurt from my little tumble. Did a lap and a half at something approaching 10K pace, then did 6 strides at the end. Probably at this point my legs just need rest after 10 yesterday.

Easy, easy 3 down Burnham and up 66th, with hills X 6 toward the end. Ribs still hurt quite a bit. May have to ice them this afternoon. Otherwise run went well. Very warm and sunny this afternoon, so thankful I didn't have to go any farther. Now we'll see how the legs feel at 8 a.m. in Bentonville. No expectations whatsoever; just go out at 7:20 and see how long I can hold it. If, by some miracle, I can hold it comfortably, I'll think about pushing on the return leg.

Ran the Battle for Hope 10K. Good news is I won my age group and 8th overall. Bad news is I ran five miles plus with a pulled hammy to do it. Strongly considered shutting it down, but I still would have had to get myself back to the finish line, so just decided to keep running. I actually passed two people in the last four miles, so they were sucking even worse than I was. Official time was 50:47, which stinks until you consider I was running on one leg. Managed to maintain something resembling marathon pace anyway. Now I'm on the DL for a while. Good thing didn't have anything important scheduled soon.