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I'm a mid-to-the back of the pack runner who probably enjoys promoting runners more than I do running myself ... I've completed 21 marathons (with a 4:47:32 PR! in Austin) and 52 half marathons (with a 2:09:58 PR! in Oregon) since November 2003 ... I've done a marathon in 12 states, half marathon in 23 and an event in 30 states and one Canadian province ... I have a 13-year-old daughter, Waverly Nicole, who completed her first half marathon in January 2006, made only two B's each of the last two years, was the only sixth grader to sing a solo (Carrie Underwood's Don't Forget To Remember Me) in their choir program (adding Taylor Swift's Tim McGraw in '08) and scored a 19 on the ACT in December 2007 as a seventh grader ... Waverly and I are members of the following clubs -- the Seven Hills Running Club, HARRA and The Woodlands Running Club ... I'm Marathon Maniac #308 ... I edit HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and write a column for Runner Triathlete News called, "Talking the Talk" ... I'm also the running columnist for the Courier of Montgomery County ... I'm a three-time winner of TAPPS' Sportswriter of the Year Award as well as TABC's Golden Hoops Award.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Testing The Foot

Progressively through the week as I walked, I continued to test my right foot to see what I was going to be able to do - or not do. (Hoping against all hope that I wasn't going to have to scratch next weekend's back-to-back half marathons.)

Towards Wednesday and Thursday evening, I was able to move quickly across an intersection with little pain as I flexed my forefoot and applied more and more pressure to the area underneath the metatarsal where the bone in pinky toe pushes up against the next one up the foot.

So ... I ended up in Bally's in The Woodlands this evening to get an hour on the elliptical machine (4.96 miles) and another 25 minutes on the stationery bike after driving today from Vancouver to Seattle and then flying home into Intercontinental Airport.

Tomorrow, I'll give things a complete test with back-to-back 5K's at Run The Woodlands 5K at 8:00 a.m. and then the YMCA Trail Run 5K in Conroe at 9:15 a.m. (Yes, we've got the most direct route there mapped out for us by "Coach Bill" Dwyer.)

posted by WalkSports.com | 10:57 PM

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