Guns a-blazin'

Yesterday's 7-miler was easy and pain free. My custom orthotics are still chafing a little bit, even with Body Glide on my feet. I'll be walking around in them more this week to break them in under less foot-stressing conditions.

I ran a 5K this morning with Paige, Linda, her husband Barnaby and his co-worker Scott. "Luke's Run" as it's called was started by one of the directors at Adobe Systems after his son died of leukemia. The run is hosted by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training. It was fun for once to shift into high gear for a sprint-distance race. Unlike typical run days with massive carb-loading, I ate only a single bowl of hot oatmeal this morning. I finished in 27:58, about a 9-minute mile. Linda and Paige followed about two minutes afterward with Barnaby and Steve back a little further. We went to the Sonoma Chicken Coop for a full breakfast afterwards.

Paige and Paul are running the Portland Marathon two weeks from now in place of their 23-mile training run. Are they crazy?! They're still not as sick as Dean Karnazes, who today ran the Lewis and Clark Marathon to kick off his unimaginably grueling Endurance 50 challenge. One marathon is challenging enough: Imagine 50 in 50 days!