what i did today.

so my shiney new training plan was pretty much shot to hell by some sort of hip injury or else a drasticly (drastically? drastickly?) pinched nerve or the fact that i am a complete mental case. at any rate, i haven't run in... oh... i don't know... six weeks? yeah, like... since i registered for this $100 monstrosity of pinkishness. when it became clear i could not get speedy to come on down & be the next contestant in "ace for a day", i had to suck it up and go on out there. turned out to be not as bad as i thought it would be. i did manage to keep "running" the entire time, thanks in no small part to a guy in a skirt who entertained me with witty repartee for 3 or 4 miles before exiting the course completely. apparently, he was merely on a training run. it's entirely possible he does all his training runs in a skirt. he sort of seemed like that kind of guy. you know the type.