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Calf felt a little better today. Got out for an easy 11. Never pushed it, just continuing to evaluate the calf. Still feels a little bruised in there but it is clearly getting a bit better, just not super quickly. I'd like to think that it would be at full strength by mid to late next week. I thought I'd hit the BHS track, just to keep it easy, level (well, mostly) and maybe even get a fixed HR readout, but the track was locked up tight as a drum. First time I ever saw that. Did see banners up though for something the kids might want to do this summer.

Half way through this run, I noticed I had quite the outfit on. Skins from Lucho, Pikes Peak Marathon jacket, a pair of gloves that were a gift from wife, the Garmin that was a gift from my mother in law, and a new pair of Brooks that I had purchased recently from an Olympian (pictured with another running legend).

When I got these shoes from Mr Culpepper, he greeted me in his typical manner: friendly, and with two of his boys in tow. JZ was with me and he has been pretty atuned to the Olympics. I turned to JZ and mentioned that this guy had been on two Olympic teams. JZ looked at him wide eyed and said, "whoa!" Yeah, running can have its sports heroes too.

Evening - considered going out for a full moon run but the snow began to fly - so I went with the treadmill instead. 4 miles easy, 5 percent grade. This four miles was just for the stupid satisfaction of getting 300 miles on the month. 50 miles on the week, 300 on February, and 655 on the year. About 480 minutes of running on the week, plus the time on the bike. Year minutes are now 5446. Week was obviously a mess, down week given the calf.