Anyone know any local 5K's that have walkers as well as runners?  My feet have been (KNOCKWOOD) pretty okay lately, and I've been doing a little more walking than I used to.  I was contemplating trying to do a couch-to-5k with just walking quickly instead of running, and thought it would be nice to try to do a fast-walk 5k as a goal in the spring ( Read more... )

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Anonymous comments enabled -- tell me anything, ask me anything (though I can't promise I'll answer anything, I can probably say why not).  Good, bad, indifferent ( Read more... )

Okay, I know some of y'all would die for this job.

The Mary Sue, one of my daily-hit blogs for geeky fun things, is hiring a full time editor!

http://www.themarysue.com/the-mary-sue-is-hiring/

Prosecco means everything is fun!!!!!! I painted a picture and sang along to whitney houston and I want to have a karaoke birthday

Okay, bought myself a fancy pair of arch-supporty PF-friendly fuzzy house slippers (http://www.footsmart.com/P-Orthaheel-Womens-Relax-Slippers-89653.aspx) so I can quit walking in bare feet or only-okay crocs around the house.

... and got them in leopard print, goshdarnit.

RAWR I'm a leopard!  RAWR I'm a leopard... with less-hurty paws?

Really depressed at the thought of no long walks for months and months.  Especially thinking about the fall, and my dreams of going camping again and going hiking, and how lovely a time I had this Sunday walking around the neighborhood with B, and how much I'd been wanting to get back to my fitness games on the xbox.  Walking always cheers me up.  ( Read more... )

(sigh) So I saw the podiatrist today.  He agrees I have plantar fasciitis, and says I have a bad-ish case, on account of I wince when he pokes the area in front of my heel.

So the first steps (hee) are:

"Walk ridiculously slowly" and minimize walking
Constantly stretching calves
Night splint
Foot massage (golfball provided, and frozen can of juice also ( Read more... )

So we got back from Firefly late last night and this afternoon, B found a tick on me (despite having showered in the interim, which we both find confusing).

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( For those of you into that sort of thing, what's growing on! )