Running week of St. Patrick...

[OakLeaf]

I wish Google Earth/Maps/something had an easy way to take my route and turn it into distance as a backup for when the GPS is being stupid.

mapmyrun.com - as long as you know where you went, you can use it to get your distance. If you were on trails, almost always you can go to the satellite/aerial view and zoom in close enough as nevermind. (And since Google Maps added bike paths, those are now included in the "follow roads" option.) If you actually have a readable .gpx but for some reason your software won't tell you the distance, you should be able to import it into SportTracks.


I've come to the conclusion that the callus on the outside of my left foot is a tailor's bunion. Small and I hope to keep it that way, but not sure whether it'll keep me from running barefoot on hard surfaces. It's definitely pretty painful right now if I try to jog across the road to beat traffic, coming back from a barefoot beach run. But I'm still toughening up my soles all around, so maybe that will get some cushioning too. Still haven't tried on any VFFs yet, but I've decided I'm going to whenever I get around to it.

Anyway - long run on tap for me today, not sure how long I'll go considering I seemed to have lost so much fitness over the last couple of weeks, but planning to try for 20.