Great Run Today

Just felt good. Ran in shoes, one of my long-time 8 mile loops, Greenbrook Road to Middlesex and back.

Boston Marathon Update #1

It is almost two hours into the Versus Network coverage of Boston. The frequency of commercials has increased about fourfold. Deena Kastor is having another bad day. That's sad. With her disappointing performance at the 2006 NYC Marathon and now this Boston Marathon, it makes two in a row where there were high hopes for her and USA marathoning in general.

I am tracking several friends from my running club:
Here are the first wave guys.
Here are the people who started in wave #2.

Boston Marathon

I am watching the Boston Marathon on the Versus TV Network (AKA "VS", formerly OLN). Al Trautwig is the head talking head, unfortunately. It looks brutal out there. Even though us runners have to put up with Trautwig's condescending chatter for people who only know about the "sports" of fishing, golf and whatever major league sports the big networks cover, the pre-recorded shorts have been fairly informative and tailored to runners. They are also showing the marathon they ran in Iraq to mirror Boston, and the one in space. I just discoverd that you can track up to five individuals at the Boston Marathon web site.

Run Easy

Toe is getting along OK. Has not even affected my running. It is probably almost healed. Big rains today. Nor'easter. Soccer games canceled. Belleayre's web site is saying that they will get 30" of snow out of this. Staying open through next weekend. If so, I will be there. Boston is tomorrow and it is going to be interesting. All I wanna do is run easy!

Broken Toe

I broke my little right toe yesterday. I was getting out of my car and I just did something weird. I turned to help my daughter out of the back seat. It is a small Ford Focus ZX3 two door, so I was letting the back seat up. I somehow caught my little toe on the map pocket in the door and it hurt like hell. I noticed ten minutes later that it was looking purpleish and swelling a little. I put ice on it. Last night it was fine through some table-tennis playing and usual around-the-house activities. It was fine this morning too, until I had to put shoes on for work. Now it hurts and I am working in my socks. I hope I can run later. The last time I broke a little toe I had to spend a few weeks cycling instead.

Teenage 'Tude

I ran a 4.5 mile barefoot run yesterday. I needed a barefoot run. It felt so good. Most of it was on the muddy grass of Greenbrook Park. Even though the weather was warm, about 65 degrees, the wet grass puddles were very cold. I came home with a lot of mud on my feet. I brought my son to soccer indoor practice after the run, still shoeless. On the way home I was asking him something that I can't remember, probably about practice, and he said, "I can't take you seriously because you don't have shoes on."