Tuesday 12FEB2019

Greg stopped by the house in the AM and asked me to point to where my foot pain was.  I pointed to the front ball of my foot around the back of the second and third toes. His quick read was, “congratulations, you have Morton’s Neuroma.”
So there is that.  He set me up with a pair of Superfeet inserts and a met pad for the right foot.  We will give this a shot for a few days to see how things go.  In the afternoon, I jogged with those in my fattest and freshest Hokas to practice and then did another four on the treadmill.  I am still aware of the neuroma but it was a tad bit more bearable.  We’ll see how this goes.
In the evening I headed over to InMotion Running (Greg’s shop) to catch the Billy Yang movie about Dave Mackey, called “Leadman.”  The movie is good (also very good is the video that Bill Hanson did on Dave shortly after his amputation).  Even better than the movie though is getting together to see everyone for a few minutes.  I noted in this shot that you had at least three guys who had lost some part of their body to amputation.  Even in that category I am the least accomplished of these guys. 

Anyone recognize the guy who apparently is not happy with that last bite of pizza?
One of the best ambassador’s of the Boulder mountain all things scene – Bill Wright.This is mostly a shot to make JZ jealous because he was home doing calculus homework.
Bill Hanson video.

Trailer to Billy Yang video

Humble Pie

I recently asked someone how I needed to be prepared for an activity I’d do with them.  They gave me some of the expected details, but also said, “just have the beginner’s mind.” 

I felt a need to recall that over the last couple of days with my running.  I was a bit sore on Monday from my Green outing on Sunday with JV.  My legs were not super eager to jump into a workout of repeat 200s with the XC kids, and my mind was taking a beating as I pretty much was smoked on each repeat. 

The 200s started at 39 and I got a few of them down to 36, but I probably averaged 37 or 38 over the ten of them. 

This morning, I took an invite from JV to meet up with several of Green Mountain’s regulars:  Buzz, Homie, Bill, Derek as well as Jeff.  By the first turn up Amphitheatre, their headlamps had started to disappear into the pre-dawn darkness and I felt a bit embarrassed they came back down from the summit to check on me when I had not arrived in what was an expected normal time. 

I managed the ASG climb in 48:25. 

So I am not fit, or at least not fit by what standard I have set previously.   I have to keep the “beginner’s mind” and just keep plugging away.  The alternative is to not and that certainly won’t make anything better.