Lotsa Weekend Stuff

After our morning group run Saturday I got ready and made my way over to the monthly OCTR party which this month was a pool party at James’ house.  We had a decent turnout, good food, too many snacks and I stayed for about 4 hours.  The crowd was dwindling and it was time to go home and get ready for my next event.

I donned my running clothes again and around 9PM was heading to San Juan Capistrano for a special event.  Bill Ramsey was running the Relay for Life for cancer research.  But he was not part of a relay – rather he was running 100 miles solo.  I wanted to go support him and so I did.  When I arrived, Robert Baird & Robo were there running with him already.  AK showed up a short while later.  I did the mile loop and the quarter mile loop with him and he was looking good!  I stopped for a while to talk to AK about all things trail running, LA vs. Orange County, etc.  While I was standing there talking to him my foot was starting to hurt pretty bad so I passed on running any more laps and wished Bill good luck before I headed home around 10 or 10:30.

Sunday was a lunch and movie day.  Kayla and I went to go see the new Harry Potter movie.  I’m not a big fan of the serious but the movie was pretty good.  There seemed to be a lot more story and character development than action.  We went shopping around after the movie and I had my footstrike analyzed at the Adidas store.  It confirmed what I thought – that I have high arches and a very neutral footstrike which means the most important thing for me in a shoe is cushioning.  I also found it interesting that on my injured foot I turned slightly toward the outside then back to the middle then slightly outside again.  The question is – is that because I am injured or did that motion contribute to the outside of my foot injury in the first place?  Something to talk to my doc about.

Dinner at Villa Nova.  Mmmm… I went to one of my favorite restaurants last night with a couple of friends.  We had a great time and shared a wonderful bottle of Pinot Noir.  Seriously good wine.  We had a few hours of "interesting" and lively conversation and then it was back home.  I have a pretty low key week this week.  Maybe that’s a good thing…

I also have an appointment with my Foot Doctor up in Long Beach one week from today.  Yay!

Happy Running & Dirty Feet,
Jessica