Running is therapy

If not for the vegetarian diet shrinking the brain, think about how crazy smart I would be.

A while ago I signed up for a promotional site sponsored by Perl Izumi. The site is called saverun.org. The site is more of PI’s elitist runner nonsense that I actually find very amusing, and cheeky.

The main draw for the site for me was that the first 200 people to sign up got a free T-Shirt, and since I am an absolute T-Shirt nut I signed up.

Many months went by and eventually a couple of weeks ago the shirt came. In the parcel was also a stack of stickers, and a coupon for a FREE pair of Perl Izumi’s! Holy Crap! So I wasted no time in ordering my shoes. They arrived today. They are very comfortable.

I ran up the hallway and back in my office. I wish like mad I was going running today. Grrrrrrr.

Heh, I am going to quit mentioning it…if I don’t specifically say I went running, assume I am still hurt. It’s been 2 months since I went running, and my heel feels about the same as it did July 15th when I stopped. It’s really hard not to fill this post with swear words and long diatribes that would boil down to me feeling really sorry for myself…

In order to keep from killing everyone in a 50 mile radius of my house, for the last 4 weeks I have been engaging in other fitness related activities. Swimming, lifting, stationary bike, walking etc. I even picked up a road bike from Spartacus. I have it on loan while I try it out, but I will likely be buying that in the next month here. I will post some pictures soon.

This weekend I managed to get 33 miles in on my 2 bicycles (I still have a crappy Costco mountain bike).

Saturday, Bill and I went to the Rail Trail in Newville. We thought the trail was 11 miles each way, and so had settled on the idea that we’d do the whole thing, out and back. We were dismayed to find out that only a little over 9 miles later we were at the Shippensburg terminus. We headed back to Newville and Bill really wanted to get the 22 miles in, so when we finished, we headed back out for the additional miles we needed to complete 22.

Then Sunday I hit the road early to crank out a couple of miles on the road bike. It was fun, but I still hate cars. After some dude refused to move over at all as he flew past me, I decided it was time to buy a helmet. I look like a tool box in it, but I had to get one eventually.

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