This is just my second time posting since I was having troubling getting my password to work and let me use my blog site. Saturday in Raymond was a lot of fun and it felt great to be part of a group that was having FUN running/walking. I have finally started running ( I walked for 12 weeks like Mark instructed) and am running about a 13 min. mile. So far I have had just minor aches and pains and a bruised toe(next to my great toe) and I know my shoes fit fine. I read in Runners' world that a bruised toe is a right of passage so that makes me part of the group. Ha! I just have long toes and I think that will continue to happen. I wonder if I should bandage that toe. I know toe shoes in ballet are rough on your feet too. Anyone have any remedies for bruised toes? My toe nail is fine for now. Before the Raymond run I had to drag myself out of bed and really didn't feel like working that hard, but it didn't seem too much like work. I have been keeping to the training schedule pretty well and have just skipped a couple crosstraining days when we were out of town on vacation. Oh, another thing, I haven't lost one lb. but I wasn't really expecting too, but it is strange that we can work so hard and not loose weight. Guess I didn't know that before this program. Bonnie