and yes Mike, old age does suck. Seems I forget a lot of stuff anymore. Hell, my wife has to take my towel and hang it by the shower every morning before she goes to work (she uses the hanger closest to shower and makes me use the one on the back of the bathroom door) because I forget to move it before I jump in the shower because out of sight out of mind. Then I have to use hers or risk her wrath by getting the floors soaking wet. She doesn't like it when I use her towel...
I have to cut down on driving, both for the sake of saving time and money, with college starting in just 24 days...yikes!!! So, here it is, 5 minutes from my house and 17 miles long!!! I think that I will have to have a group run on it (and end up alone, of course). It's a combination of chip and seal and gravel, and vascillates back and forth between the two, but has some soft moss and leaves on the side, and is pretty choppy, uneven, and erratic -thank goodness!!! Not barefoot friendly, unless you are Dan. 
good to know.. Just thought, after writing it, that it should have a thread of it's own. So I did made the "pushing the limits"
Do you have a golf ball or a wood roller? I had some weird aches on the bottoms of my feet a few days ago. I've been rolling them good with my wood roller and hard, spiky ball, and that seems to have taken care of it. My arches were particularly tender, which I take as a sign of knots/trigger points. According to reflexology, that's where my digestive organs connect up to, which might explain the fact that I was double-dumping during those days too.
You got the right diagnosis me thinks.In my expert diagnosis, this is a case of old age.
Seriously, I hope this is not PF or something torn down there, be careful with that.
Yah, it took me several days for it to go away, and I still may have a bit of it. I think it was a matter of adapting to the everyday running. In addition to the lower leg and foot rolling/massaging, I think hamstring stretches helped me quite a bit too. Of course, I'm convinced hamstring stretches work as a general cure-all for most everything, so take that advice with a grain of salt.
You're right, I'm not normally that shy, hence my use of the adverb "unusually." Reading comprehension Dama, reading comprehension. I've received smiling approval before, but I guess the length of the smile and the duration of the stare caught me off guard. Did I mention that she was quite attractive? I suppose the sight of a relatively fit grey-haired dude her father's age running barefoot in street clothes near campus at the beginning of fall classes, well, I guess that would merit a lengthy smile of approval. Sometimes I guess we forget what freaks we are outside of this forum.
