Archive for July, 2010
Tick, Yack, Toe; updates
Ha ha ha, I slay me. So what’s next – locusts? GI issues? An ear infection? Or, hopefully, smooth sailing? Make your prediction, and feed my self-obsession personality disorder. 1. I’ll consider myself “back” once I have run five days in a row, for at least a total of 30 miles. That’s the misadventure reset [...]
And the hits just keep on coming, and a CONTEST!
So I run a tough marathon, I take a week off. I’m all ready to start running again, then I get sick. No problem, it wouldn’t hurt to take another week off. Feeling better, I go for a hike in the woods and get attacked by ticks. Finding the idea of sweating into open oozing [...]
Wife in shoes
“The soles have to be flat, and they have to be black.” That’s Iris‘ criteria for running shoes. Flat soles because she feels support and cushioning forces her to run in a way she doesn’t like. Black because that’s her style. She likes these. I wonder what kind of shoe she’d be prescribed if she [...]
Tick-en pox
Ever step in a tick nest and not realize it until a couple of hours later? I have! What fun! What joy! I took a hike with a few MadMayoites on Saturday morning at Mayo Park. I was wearing aqua socks. Then I took the dogs to Farris park, still wearing the aquas. Got home, [...]
Running shoes are stupider than I thought
Alright, so here’s an article about that military study which found that running shoe design is complete and utter voodoo. McDougall has a couple of good posts on the topic. I do my best to be skeptical about any study involving the human body because there are so many uncontrollable factors. The Lieberman study, for [...]
