Those who risk, win: My legs, my poor little legs

They're sore. I don't know. That's it really. Ran a 10K on Saturday, mostly hills, because Gloucester, calves have been sore ever since. Welcome to running. I tried stretching, foam rolling, shakeout runs, more working out even, but still, they fire on. I guess this is my life now. Oh well. But for real. I bought new shoes to see if I could eliminate the blister problem that my good old Hoka's were causing. Plus, I found a New Balance warehouse that was close to the house and was having a 30% off everything sale, so why not? I wore those lovely new shoes for the 10K and surprise, got a blister. Then in a moment of clarity, I realized that I could feel the insole back under my toes, which is not where it belongs. After the race I looked at the shoes and the insoles had slid way back leaving a nice little gap of at least 6 inches. So I deduced that the blister problem isn't actually from the sneakers, but from the insole sliding around. As a crafty person I figured a quick fix would be some super glue, so I got some, glued those suckers down, and 4 days later went for another run. I used the same shoes, took them for 8 miles on the Battle Road just to see how well the glue held up. Seems to have done a decent job, no blisters in sight. Sadly, I think the Battle Road causes my knee to hurt, something about whatever it's made out of, so that after 4.5 there was a mix of walk/running again. Which is too bad because up until that point, I was actually doing well on this run, making good time and not being too hot, which is a change from the usual. But now according to science, the heat dome is coming, so it's back to turtle pace I guess. Well, turtle pace for me anyways.

Let's see, nothing else really happening here. I did not run the woods yesterday because we took a day trip to White Lake instead. Next week is my camping week, so I probably won't be running the woods then either, but that's to be determined. We have tickets to see the Impractical Jokers next Thursday night, so I haven't decided if I'm going to come home Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. Depends on the weather up there I suppose. Other than that I've just been reading and coming up with ideas for crafts that I'm not actually making. Oh yea, a groundhog ate all of my pumpkin and watermelon plants that were just starting to flower, so I'm kind of mad about that. I just wanted to have a few nice plants. Now I'll have to wait until next Spring AND make sure I get some chicken wire to keep the things out. Although I read that groundhogs will chew through wood and wire too, so who knows if that's actually the solution. For now I'm just going to be annoyed about it anyways.

Ok, done with that. Here are your pictures for the week.