Steve in a Speedo?! Gross!: February 2018

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Semi-Wordless Wednesday: Upcoming Race and 2018 Races

I just renewed my USATF MN membership (running for my same YWCA Endurance Sports running team), and I just registered for the first race of the year:

It's an 8K in 10 days!

Since the indoor triathlon that I just did was only 10 days ago, that means Friday will probably be my only speed work between these races. So I'll try to bang out a quick training run in 2 days.

When I renewed with my running team, I also had to answer what 2018 team races I expected to race. I NEVER end up racing as much as I hope (for $$$ and injury reasons), but here's what I put down:

Basically, if it was close (not Fitgers in Duluth) and not too long (under 13.1), I'd do it.

We'll see how many I end up racing. But I plan on being at the starting line in just 10 days! It will be a nice redemption run compared to last year's race where I ran it easy just to be another body for our team so we could score some points. I hope to be 20-30 seconds/mile faster this year. We'll see!...

Monday, February 26, 2018

My Toe Can Do Tricks

Well, just ONE trick.

After a swim last week, I hopped in the hot tub and my dead toe from the end of 2017 felt a little weird. I went into the locker room and inspected it:

It had turned less purple a few weeks ago after a swim. The dead/dried blood soaked out.

Side view. Looks dead, but still OK.

BUT OH LORD! IT CAN DO THIS!! This is what I felt it doing
in the hot tub - it was flipping back as I walked into the water.

Nearly pulled off. It was just a LITTLE attached on the far left.

See ya later.

I don't know if you can tell, but there was a pretty much fully formed new toenail under that dead one. So things are looking up. Here's to 2018 and new toenails.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Morning Bike Workout (and Lack of Privacy)

This morning, I hopped on the trailer for 80 minutes. I did a Spinervals workout and worked up a nice sweat:

Gross.

My wife works this weekend, but the boys are good watching cartoons for a bit, then turning off the TV to play (and coming down to talk to me if there are any issues). I called Henry down when I was about 10 minutes from the end and asked him to start pouring me a hot bath upstairs. I wanted to take a epsom salt bath post-spin, but we didn't have a ton of time.

When I got upstairs and hopped in the tub (thanks Henry!), the boys wouldn't leave, so we just chatted. Here was my view as I was having a nice soak: