How many bones in your body?

I saw my hand bones today at the Hand Doctor. Very interesting. Did you know there are 29 bones in the hand? And your wrist has 8 bones? That's just your wrist. Well, my break looks pretty scary from a certain angle, and that is the word the doc used. No wonder there's a lump sticking out of my hand.

Good news is that I don't have to wear my splint anymore. I'm healing up nicely, and the doctor was surprised I walked around with the break and didn't have any pain as he was squeezing and pinching my hand. Well, it has been over 3 weeks, ya know. And the squeezing and pinching did hurt, but he was pinching hard.

I got the feeling the doctor was flirting with me. Not overtly flirting, but I just got this feeling. E and J were there with me, and he asked some questions about them. He asked a couple questions of me that didn't really pertain to my hand break. Maybe he's always a friendly, curious fellow who looks intently into patient's eyes. Maybe I'm old and out of the loop re: flirting and someone being interested in me.

The nurses gave E and J these awesome lollipops that have a skeleton hand instead of stick (well, actually, Joshie got a skeleton leg and Elijah got the hand). The Hand Doctor shares office space with the Foot & Ankle Doctor, fyi.

So...no one scold me when I am splint-less b/c I got doctor's orders to cast it aside. LOL. Super bad pun, sorry.

400's at the track - Wednesday, 10/24. My absolute favorite workout (seriously!). It was super windy, and there was one rep that I honestly felt like I was going to get blown off the track. I didn't want to do 10 because I've been so dog-gone tired lately, but I knew Gilbert wouldn't let me get away with anything less.

We started slow (Gayatri, Sarah, Allison, and I). Actually, Allison may have started faster than us and joined up later on. I know Starr started fast and met up with us for maybe one or two.

Most of mine were around the 2:00-2:10 area with a 1:58 for my 6th, which was way too fast at that point. Benard said we were having too big of a gap between our first one (super slow) and our middle & ending ones. Gilbert always wants us to get faster as we go, and we just aren't experienced enough yet to run the exact pace each time. Well, I am better at it than I was this past Wednesday. I generally need to run them alone if I'm going to get the same time each lap.

Anyway, I completed 10 and my last one was my fastest. The last three were so hard with the wind and fatigue. At the end of each, I sort of felt loopy and wondered if a migraine was around the corner. No migraine showed up that day.

Blah, blah, blah...this is so boring.

7 miles tomorrow morning, and we are running part of the EAS 10-miler route. Gayatri wants me to run the race with her, but I dislike road races. Out of love for her, I'm considering it.

According to Elijah, there are 206 bones in the body.