They lied. Everything is not bigger in Texas.
\nFor the last couple weeks I have been down in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, for a couple academic conferences and some research in a few archival repositories.\u00a0 Fun fun fun. And, rather than sit around bored in my hotel rooms at night when I didn’t have stuff planned with colleagues and friends, I went running. These were three of the sweatiest runs of my life.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 The humidity.\u00a0 Overall, it was a lot of fun to explore some new places. However, due to my IT bands and stress fracture on my left ankle…I am supposed to be only increasing my weekly mileage slowly – 10% per week, right?\u00a0 Well… I kind of blew that. Instead of going 7-9 miles max for the week, I did 15+ over 6 days.\u00a0 The IT bands got worse throughout, and now my left ankle stress fracture is a bit sore again – which it hasn’t been for a few weeks. It had been 100% pain-free for a while.\u00a0 And…it kind of feels like an identical stress fracture is developing on my right ankle.\u00a0 So… I may be taking it easy for a couple weeks now – maybe just keeping in shape on my bike until the Wasatch Back Ragnar at the end of June.<\/p>\n
In any case – here’s where I explored.<\/p>\n
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