Gayle -- so glad to hear your foot is doing better. And you got an impressive amount of mileage in considering how much else it looks like you had going on this week. I had a good week: M -- 4.2 T -- gym/strength training W -- 5.3 R -- gym/strength training F -- 2.6 Sa -- 10k race + about 2/3 of a mile warm-up. Su -- off Total = 19 even The race was a lot of fun -- a trail race, my first one. Absolutely beautiful scenery, and I loved running on the trail, at least until the last mile straight uphill. Seriously, I was at 53 minutes at the mile 5 marker, but finished in 1:12. Not such a great last 1.2, eh? Hope everyone had a good week -- and happy mothers' day to all the moms!

Another great running week pain free and I am begining to get that old feeling back of effortless running. Mon- Day off Tues- 3 Wed- 6 (25 min tempo) Thur- 3 Friday- 6 (nice and easy) Sat - 3 Sunday - 10 Weekly total 31. A strangely wonderfull thing happened on Sunday's run. At the end of my run I felt so sure that I had measured the course wrong. I felt so relaxed comfortable and full of energy at the end of the run that I thought that I had only run 9 miles at a slow 10:30 pace. I even ran a little extra bit of road hoping to get over at least 9. I was pleasantly suprised to find that I did run over 10 miles at 9:30 pace. Not blazingly fast, but I was just chugging and plugging along never out of breath, except for those darn hills that people keep leaving in my way! Anybody else have one of those out of body experiences?

Sunday 2.0 miles woohoo! I'm going to start back pretty darn slow since I was dealing with some nagging pains when I put the shoes in the closet last month. Should still be time to build up comfortably for a half marathon in october! Glad your foot is feeling better Gayle and way to get those miles in even though it doesnt look like you were enjoying them this week! Anne i just noticed your profile picture, I just love it! The trail race does sound like fun. karl, thanks for mentioning that hill allergy, I've been trying to figure out what that problem is. now I can ask my doctor if that's the right diagnosis for me and how to treat it I really miss CT where I grew up, the scenery in IA is not quite the same! Get out there and enjoy those trails for me!

21.2 mile week M - 4 miles on the treadmil Tu - 4 more Wednesday - 6 miles pavement, hilly Thursday- Realized that was as far as I've run on pavement - sore as heck. Gotta build up to it more slowly Friday - Still feeling like a sore idiot Saturday - Still an idiot, less sore Sunday - 7.2 miles, treadmill Thinking I'll try one smaller run a week outdoors, if that works, start subsituting other days later. I felt great after Wednesday's run, almost kept going. The next day... Owie.

Good week for me. Tues: 2.46 Thurs: 2.75 Sat: 3.43-- longest ever! Total: 8.64 miles

I had a decent week. I can't complain about it anyway. Mon- 4miles Tue- off Wed- 2miles (legs cramped up) Thu- Drove down to VA for training Fri- Recover from 13.5 hr drive (not fun) Sat- 5miles Sun- 7.1miles Total- 18.1 Sundays run was at FT Eustis, VA on some wicked trails, pace was slow but I had a great time. (hills, turns, roots, rocks & bridges)