Adventures in Onionism

I've had increasing pain in my foot pretty much this entire year. Have I mentioned this already? Literally on January 1, I ran past an a lady with two off leash dogs that made Margo go nuts. I caught my toe and tripped (leash your dogs, lady). I think the plantar flexion caused some nerve pain, and then maybe I altered my gait a little. But who really knows, because I changed more than one variable at a time and I only have the one universe and no ability to randomize, so the causal evidence is weak. I also started wearing nearly exclusively next generation foam shoes. I also hammered the last four paved miles of hone Quarry 40-miler in March. I also got a year older and kept trying to run 2,500-3,000 miles per year. So who knows what caused it. But even before Wyoming Range 100, I was definitely not planning on running much after the race. Podiatry and PT appointments and MRIs came and went and nothing worse nor more clear than "maybe some edema" [i.e. a bone bruise] and...

Back in August I ran Wyoming Range 100. Here's the very late report.  I ran Hardrock in July. I did very little for a week but then got back into it. The second weekend I ran Catherine's Fatass 50K. It's fairly runnable as far as the Massanuttens go, so I didn't hate life, but I wasn't particularly fast--it took me nearly 8 hours. My friend Heather told the RD that I enjoy being teased about being slow, so there was a lot of that.I found a bunch of chanterelle mushrooms, which were delicious later. Another halfway decent week of training and then tapering, and then in the first week of August Wyoming Range was upon us. I flew to Salt Lake on Wednesday after work. My flight was delayed in departure by four hours but the departure gate was nice enough to not have hostile architecture (seats without armrests) so I laid down and slept. I didn't get to my friends until 1AM, but having slept at the airport it didn't feel awful. I got a ride with a fellow runner fr...