Live'n On A Prayer

OHhhhh, I'm *Almost* There, OHhh-OHhh, I'm live'n on a prayer!  :)  I'm almost there!!!  Must keep going, must keep going!  Drum roll please..... I ran 10 miles tonight.  It was not fun but I did it!  It took me one hour and forty-two minutes.  The 5 miles down took me 48 minutes.  But I was a bit slower on the way back and it's slightly uphill, at least in some spots, so all in all, I was proud of myself.

At one point, my left toes and shin got almost numb.  It was very strange.  I had to stop and wiggle my ankle around a bit.  When I was buying new shoes, the Mizuno website has a series of steps is has you do to determine the right shoe.  I've worn the same shoe for years now but just wanted to double check.  One of the steps is to stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and squat to the floor.  If you can keep your heels on the ground when you squat all the way to the floor, you have normal flexibility in your ankles.  If you have to come to your toes to squat all the way down, you have restricted movement in your ankles.  According to these people at least.  I, of course, am not normal and have restricted movement in my ankles.  I wonder if this caused the weird near-numbness feeling today.  But then again, I don't remember ever feeling that before I got these new shoes.  So, maybe they're just not broke in real well yet.

Who knows.  I ran.  I succeeded in finishing.  I'm close to the end.  And I just want to finish and enjoy myself.  Goal and Goal.  :)  Now I'm icing, icing and icing.  And ibuprofen-ing. 

Here's a little clip that I just Love that I have meant to share with y'all for a while now and keep forgetting.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html

I hope that link works.  If not, Google "Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes" or look for it on Ted.com.