Rec: MapMyRun.com

I haven't used this to... map my run... but I have used it to find routes.

The front page is busy, but in the middle is a button that says FIND A RUN.

Using the advanced search options, put in a minimum and maximum distance to narrow the search, and a keyword if it'll help (a lot of our runs have been downtown, so I enter that). Click on Search and presto-presto: routes -- lots of them if you're in a city or any community with lots of runners (I bet Boulder's map database is HUGE).

So, cool tool.

Also cool? The QUARTER-INCH SPLINTER I pulled out of the ball of my foot a few days ago. One I got from the rough edges of our new deck TWO MONTHS AGO and have been RUNNING ON ever since.

You know that scene in Brubaker, where the prisoner gets that gigantic shard of wood stuck in his hand?

Well, it was nothing like that.

But close!

I got it because I slid my bare foot on the deck without thinking. There was a nasty stab and some blood, and I whinged and moaned, and then it started to heal. But then about a week ago, it started hurting again, so of course I picked at. Then I ran 6 miles on it Friday night. And then, when I got home, a quarter-inch splinter of still-rigid treated lumber exited my foot.

I don't know if I'm a bad-ass or a dumb-ass.

You decide! And while you're at it... got any gnarly injuries you wanna share, seein' as how it's just us gnarly-injury-story types who made it all the way through this post?

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