I did 36 miles last week, including a 15K race yesterday. I wanted to build up to 40 somewhat quickly, and I'm feeling good today, so this might be the week. It worked out that yesterday's race was in the park where there is an ice rink. So, after the race, I took DD and two of her BFFs ice skating. It was a fabulous time. I thought I was completely done working out yesterday, and decided to put off my pushups. However, that evening I was feeling a bit refreshed, so I did the workout, and did better than planned. In all, a great day and a great week. I'm hoping for more of that this week, for myself and the rest of you as well.

back on the horse this week, a little better than 4 miles on hotel treadmill tonight. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Dutchie - "Ice storm" = frozen precipitation in large amounts. Every surface (roads, trees, houses, etc.) gets coated with up to ONE INCH of ice. Trees bend over and huge branches break off. Power lines and poles come down. When you open the door, you hear, "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" - the sound of ice coming down in sheets! We had a HUGE ice storm in 1998. We were out of power for 5 1/2 days. I was 26 weeks pregnant, and my other two kids were 2 and 5. DH's dad passed away the day the storm started, and we were trying to figure out how to get to Wisconsin, plus both of us were trying to work! After that, we bought a generator so we could power up our heat, water pump, refrigerator, and a few lights. Thank goodness! We've used it only a few times, but sometimes we REALLY need it! Fortunately, we got a big thaw yesterday - set records for a high temp in the upper 50s. Snow coming tomorrow! In between storms, I managed 7.3 miles today (1.3 with my C25K friend, and another 6 on my own). 34 and windy, but not too bad.

Only did a shoulders w/o today. Darn my bedroom is cold! Gig: how many pushups did you do Trey: had a nice weekend. Had Friday off, so was extra long too What were you up to? Teresa: ice storm? What's that? We don't get that here, I think.

126 on Sunday. 120 just now, but barely. I'm looking forward to tonight's run and karate class. Somewhere, I'll squeeze in some Christmas shopping, too.

Did a triceps w/o first without any wu (21:37min). Followed by sort of an interval run? 1K@9K/h 1K@10K/h 1K@9K/h 1.5K@10K/h 1K@9K/h 5K in 31:51minutes. I'll work my way up to a temporun with 3K@10K/h Ran on Superstrings, love classical music at a fast beat Finished with a short endurance leg w/o, including abs and a stretch (33:10min)

Gig: you did a karateclass after you ran 11 miles You must have legs of steel.

I ran almost 8 miles today, and then another karate class. Yesterday wasn't bad with 11 plus the karate because I had 45 minutes in between. Tonight, I planned on 5 miles, but took a wrong turn. I managed to get back about 5 minutes before the class. Not to much focus on martial arts tonight--much more on fitness. Super. It was a tough night. I skipped pushups.