<p>I got a pair of shoes on! Yay! I found a pair of black soft fabric Pumas at Rack and walked three miles today. I have my foot elevated and am icing now. It hurts but at least I got a shoe on and was able to get around!:)</p>
<p>NM, how long until your trip? Is it your pinky toe that is broken? Have you considered taping it to another toe? That’s what I did when I broke my toe and I don’t know that it healed any faster but it sure didn’t hurt as much. Glad you found a shoe that works though!</p>
<p>I leave on Thursday. It is my little toe. Who knew it would take so long to heal and hurt so much! Yes,I have tried taping it. Doesn’t make any difference. I may have to take my boot from the hospital but it is big and heavy and I was trying to avoid that.</p>
<p>10.4 miles along Alii Drive with all the triathletes. I dropped the time of every single mile- without looking at my splits. Coach was impressed even though the miles didn’t start with a 7!</p>
<p>10.4 miles in Kona heat - very impressive! Nice run, MOfWC!</p>
<p>Thanks. It was dark when I started, so not terrible heat yet. I honestly don’t know how these folks are going to survive an afternoon marathon tomorrow. I think this is pretty awful…</p>
<p>IDad, you can appreciate this…S1 (U.S, Navy Spec.Ops officer) called today to tell me he had just gotten back from a training mission in CA where he and his platoon hiked to the top of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continental U.S. He and his platoon hiked the 22 mile loop in one day. Pretty proud of my boy.</p>
<p>PackMom- that’s awesome. H tried to do Mt. Whitney a number of years ago and they didn’t make it to the top! It’s a tough climb.</p>
<p>S1 said the higher they climbed, the harder it was to breathe, felt nauseous and had a bad headache. It was supposed to simulate the mountains of Afghanistan.</p>
<p>We used to go hiking for a week every summer in the Sierras when we lived in CA. The first day with the 12,000 foot high pass was always a killer. I don’t think I could do 14,000+. Luckily once we got over the pass most of the hiking was at around 10,000 feet. We just felt weak and feeble, but no longer nauseous. It was so gorgeous though, it was worth it.</p>
<p>pacmom:</p>
<p>Awesome! 22 mile loop climbing Mt. Whitney is a pretty hardcore dayhike!</p>
<p>mowc:</p>
<p>Morning run in Hawaii. Probably doesn’t get much better than that!</p>
<p>NMinn:</p>
<p>Congratulations on the shoe! One small step for man, one large step for… Or something like that.</p>
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<p>Little 20 minute kettlebell circuit in the basement for me. It was a tossup between huffin’ and puffin’ with the KB or huffin’ and puffin’ on the Airdyne. KB won…</p>
<p>Steak fajitas, hold the tortilla for dinner. Good way to use up some leftover grilled flank steak…</p>
<p>Wow, PacMom. Wow. I bet they were hiking with more weigh than just small daypacks! Very impressive.</p>
<p>idad, I found that running in HI was not my cup of tea. While training for my marathon, I had to do a long run in HI, and I chose the lesser of the two evils - the treadmill. 
I admire anyone who can run more than 5 miles under scorching sun! Running a marathon after a long swim and a 100-mile bike ride is mighty hard, but running said marathon on a road through a lava field with no shade in 90-degree heat - it is beyond human. Good luck to Wild Child!</p>
<p>I would truly sacrifice my running and never run another step if he can just get through this tomorrow and be happy with his performance (considering the torn labrum and sports hernia, too). Just talked to a man in the next condo who has done 7 Konas and won his age group last year. He’s 61. He gave my son some tips. He does all his bike training indoors on a trainer after a wreck 30 years ago. lives in Wisconsin. Shoot me now!</p>
<p>Heh, heh… I admire anyone who can run more than 5 miles, period!</p>
<p>Speaking of hiking with more weight, I’ve been busy getting outfitted to do some overnight backpacking hikes. There are backcountry tentsites scattered around the White Mountains like [this</a> one](<a href=“http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/6/2/8/6/p7050018.jpg]this”>http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/6/2/8/6/p7050018.jpg) that is the uphill 3.5 miles into an 8 mile round trip. As slow as I hike, being able to split up some of these hikes like that opens up a lot of nice possibililties. Drive up, half day of hiking, camp out, half day of hiking, drive home.</p>
![http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/6/2/8/6/p7050018.jpg]this](http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/6/2/8/6/p7050018.jpg%5Dthis){kind=link}
<p>PackMom, my husband perked up at mention of Mt Whitney. I gather that’s one he would have liked to climb but didn’t. Knew off the top of his head that it was over 14,000 ft.</p>
<p>MOWC, I’ll be thinking good thoughts for WC tomorrow. :)</p>
<p>iDad, onward and upward to tent-sites!</p>
<p>Me, visiting my daughter tomorrow. I suspect we’ll get in a good amount of walking out exploring the city.</p>
<p>Idad, but who would bring you a steak? Is there a nearby fine dining establishment that would air lift you your traditional “camping” fine fare? :)</p>
<p>MomWC, I am going to put special prayers in the sweatlodge we’re having today to take some of the heat for WildChild. We don’t want you to barter off your running!</p>
<p>For the Michigan Titanium, which is iron-like in length (just not trademarked) the event 2 years ago hit on a scorcher day. Even though a large section of the route is treed and beside our river, I was told by my gf it was brutal, and she’d trained expecting the heat. We had some tri team members who weren’t participating or who had done the half down at the end of our lane spraying any passersby who wanted it with a 200’ hose we’d rigged up. The ones who wanted it were very grateful. </p>
<p>As y’all know, I’m not a runner, and even back in the day, was only a sprinter. My body composition even at this lower weight is geared more to short power bursts than endurance. Nonetheless, just for fun, I added a very tiny interval of “running” to my Nordic walk on the treadmill yesterday just to get my heart rate up a bit. Maybe its because I’m short, but even at 5 mph I actually felt like I was going to fly off the treadmill or something, like I couldn’t control the “ground” beneath my feet. It was a very weird feeling.</p>
<p>Is that normal, and something you just get used to when you “actually” run a lot, or is that why so many of you hate treadmills? </p>
<p>I enjoy my hill, and will go back to it soon enough as I’ve decided to shut the pool heater off Sunday and officially close the pool a week later to beat the evil maple tree overhead. But I haven’t minded the treadmill for fast exerstriding/Nordic style or with weights, especially now that I have a mat right beside it to do the planks and kettlebells right after I get off.
So I might even alternate days with the hill.</p>
<p>But the running thing kind of blew my mind. I really felt like I would fall off!</p>
<p>Kmc-I’m the exception - I like the treadmill, and I only run outside for the actual 5ks. I don’t have that sensation – but are you perhaps lifting your feet too high? Just a thought. </p>
<p>Checking in from St Thomas where I am on vaca with several girlfriends. Yesterday I went to the fitness center, and tired from the flight, was just doing stationary bike when a woman comes in - she was leading a 4 pm exercise class and no one had shown up, would I like to have a private session? (No cost, since classes were part of the resort fee) Sure! So she led me through a private session that encompassed cardio, strength and flexibility. After that, I ran a mile, and then in the evening we did nighttime snorkeling which was fun. </p>
<p>Following the Ironman pursuits of WildChild!! Good luck!</p>
<p>Good luck WC!!</p>
<p>Note to self: Oct. 12 is the opener of duck season, and 7:16 a.m. is the legal firing time. Stay off the hill!
Good grief, I feel like a nam survivor!</p>
<p>Can’t wait til deer firearm season opens nov. 15 My land is posted no hunt without permission, but it does not feel happy to be under tree cover when six rounds of ten shots go off in a 10 minute span! </p>
<p>It’s a good thing I have a treadmill. I think there will be some days I have to pass on the hill. I also think a nice autumn kayak this morning might be ill-advised. Living in the quasi country is beautiful but not without a wee bit o peril :)</p>
<p>Last year, of course, my answer to this peril was to sit on my duff and get fatter. Not planning to do that this year, so I will just have to get myself in synch with the hunting community! AND wear my orange vest that my sister gave me as a joke. No joke after all!</p>
<p>Good Luck to the Wild Child. Crossing my fingers for you MOWC that you don’t have to give up running! DH and I often wonder how we produced a S who is always doing crazy dangerous things. It’s part of his job but there’s no consolation in that. It’s tough being the Mom who can only sit on the sidelines and pray!</p>