Afternoon run with Dr. Jerry

Thank god for my wife. Moments after getting home from my 14 miler and writing what I did this morning, she reminded me that a few days ago I had agreed to go for a run this afternoon with Dr. Jerry... We met Jerry when we purchased his (now our) house just over three years ago, and he and his family have been wonderful friends ever since.

Jerry was a huge help on the medical front when I made my Badwater bid last year, so it made sense to pick his brain about things like hypothermia, "frozen lung", frostbite, and other lovely topics.. What was comforting about our chat while running the 4+ miles around Lake Merritt was that heat stroke (which I learned a lot about during the ramp up for Badwater last year) is surprisingly a lot like hypothermia. Not that I want to get anywhere close to either - it's just nice to be up on the "worst case scenario" in case my day doesn't go quite the way I want it to.

Ending "day 1" of the 47 training days I have left, I logged just over 18 miles, plus the two I walked with my daughter on my shoulders en route to our picnic site this afternoon.

Time for bed,
~B