I need to start this entry by apologizing for the photo you're going to see below.

When you've got a digital camera and a computer, you can take a picture of a body part and five minutes later, it's out there for the whole world to see.

I was hoping to walk 8.8 miles today, which would have meant I covered 50 miles in my first seven days back into the walking thing. But I didn't walk at all, because I had to decide the old thing about discretion and valor. My big toe -- the one on the right foot -- has been hurting a little more each of the last four or five days, and the blood behind it has been getting darker and darker.