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Fortunately, it doesn't directly show you how terribly slow I ran. This may seem almost oxymoronic when you're talking about running 10 miles, but i'm a really lazy runner. Also it was snowing the whole time. Unfortunately, it's just as snowy here in town too. I didn't really want to start shoveling this early in the season.

But to catch up: Tuesday was the first LMBS race. I skipped it. I've got a ton of excuses, but here's the one I'm going with. The weekend before I tripped while out running and ripped the hell out of my knee. It was still a little sore from the impact itself, but more distressing was the feeling that the scabs were about to rip open every time I bent my knee past a certain angle. I happened to ride my bike to work that day, and it was torture.

When I got home for lunch yesterday, I found some new running shoes waiting for me on the porch. I took them out for a trail run yesterday after work. (The scabs were feeling more "solid" although my knee did complain a bit on the harsher impacts). I like the shoes quite a bit. I got them in a EE, and I would almost like a little more width, but they're comfortable enough. I already like them more than the Bikilas, but that opinion could change if they ever came out with a really wide Bikila. My feet weren't knocking around inside the shoe as much as they do in my regular trail shoes, which lead to a much more solid feeling while bouncing off the babyhead rocks and roots that litter the trail. The worst part was that I did tear the heck out of my heels thanks to being new shoes compounded by trail grit getting inside them.

Last night I finished reading Woken Furies, the last of the three Takeshi Kovacs novels. And by far my least favorite. But I had to get it finished because it was due back to the library today. It just seemed to drag on and on. It wasn't as good of a Sci-Fi/Noir/Thriller as the first of the trilogy, and the story wasn't as interesting as the second book. It just went on and on and became a vehicle for the author's political pontificating. Which is just not that fun to read. Meh.

I also picked up some good travel reading: Roadside Geology of Wyoming. Really interesting stuff. There's even an entry in the Roadside Geology series for Wisconsin, if you're wondering.