Running

Okay, so I have a lot to report.

First of all, I got a Kindle. It's awesome. But that's not the main point. The main point is that I ran across a book called "Spark" in the Kindle store and I downloaded it for our trip to Europe. It's all about research on how exercise affects brain chemistry. By the time I got home, I was totally convinced that I must start doing aerobic exercise often and that it will totally change my life.

Problem: the ball of my left foot hurts when I do impact exercises, such as running and aerobics. I've had this problem for 15 years. If I can't run or do aerobics, there is no realistic way that I'm going to exercise aerobically every day.

Solution: I emailed my doctor and asked her to refer me to some specialist. She told me to go get Superfeet shoe inserts and she made me an appointment with the podiatrist. Ed told me about a specialty shoe store two blocks from our house that sells a bunch of shoe inserts. I went there and asked for the shoe inserts and the owner was some kind of crazy foot genius. He made me walk around barefoot while he watched and then he grabbed some inserts, trimmed them, pasted some extra padding towards the front of the insert, heated them up in a toaster oven, handed them to me, and proclaimed that I would no longer have pain. I put them in and he was right. I haven't had any foot pain since.

So for the last five weeks I've been running five times a week and I feel way happier - and much less irritable and annoyed. Seriously. (Maybe this is just how normal people feel all the time and I was just massively depressed for the last 15 years - it's hard to say.)

Anyway, I'm not so fast. But's that's okay - I'm getting faster. My goal is to work up to the point where I can run for 30 minutes at a non-embarrassing speed (where non-embarrassing=faster than Ed can walk).