The "Penguin" daily threads were originally conceived to emphasize that all members of the community have a place on the boards. Encouragement, motivation, a little love nip (you will love one, give it a try!) or even a little kick in the pants when needed -- it can happen here. Basically, we celebrate just getting out there and moving our tails! What is "slow"? "Slow" is a perception but one of the common benchmarks is the 10:00/mi pace; but there's no firm line. In fact, there are many of us that have slipped past this, and just hope that no one notices and revokes their "igloo privileges." And some penguins don't run at all, we just hang out for the company! It can be confusing for the forum newbies, but we're not one of the teams in any of the fine games. It's a totally open group, so stop lurking, post an introduction of yourself dive in and join the fun! No application necessary! There might even be a lovely picture for Scotty (we love pics!)

sapf, forgot to tell you, buy Refresh PM ointment.  I still use it today. It helps with the dryness.  And buy Celluvisc and use drops a lot.  It's part of the healing process.  My eyes ended up a bit dryer (although my eyes have been dry forever and maybe it's just now that I have noticed).  The ointment will help you sleep.

Morning!  I have mystery miles today!  I ran a mystery track workout on the TM last night.  The watch doesn't seem to do as well in non-GPS mode for fast or slow intervals, although it seems pretty accurate at "easy" pace.

Also, I'm flying out tonight to go to weight watchers leader training.  They only do the training in Chicago or Dallas, so off I go!

sapf- I aim for fewer than 100 miles on them.

D- Enjoy your mysterious miles.  But don't be afraid to stop early if you feel tired!

Good morning Penguins!

Jill, for this year's LA Marathon, I wore a pair that had 500 miles on them.  Just the first of many fails that day.   It's what happens when you have 4 pairs of the same shoe in different colors, and you get up at 3 in the morning and don't pay attention to which shoes you put on in the dim light.  When I got to Dodger Stadium and realized what I'd done, I started sobbing.  (the 2nd fail...)  Anyway, I agree with Damaris except on the zero part.  I'd have maybe 50-150 miles.

Damaris, Zel, and Ginny - hope you have some great miles, whatever they are.

I'm still feeling tired but am going to head out for short miles now that the sun is coming up.

I'm at the gym and just realized I forgot to brush my teeth after breakfast this morning. Blech! Gonna be a long day!

Medium-long this morning, deadlifts and OHP right now, bunch of stuff to get done at work, riding friend's horse late afternoon. I'm going to sleep like a baby tonight!!

I ran this morning and made up the distance I was short yesterday.

Z - You coming to Dallas?

No mystery for me, I ran 2.16 miles this morning. (since so many penguins are being secretive I decided to be very precise with my mileage). It felt better than yesterday's run. Later I will mow the grass, which according to my Fitbit is 2.5 miles of walking. But I don't log that -- I'm not that desperate for mileage!

Nice run/walk this morning at Fort Sam Houston; oh, sorry JOINT BASE Fort Sam Houston; was raining on me when I started and I wish it had kept on raining; but no, it stopped, and the dang humidity went up about 20%, sheesh. At one point I was running on the track with some young military guys who were doing their timed PT run, and giving some of them some encouragement as they passed by me. As I came up on one "kid" - maybe all of about 21 years old - I heard him mutter 'this is killing me." I came alongside him and said "you can do this; you are stronger than you think you are; dig deep and find that place inside you; it's there; just let it out.". I then ran with him for a bit and then as we approached where he would finish his run, we could hear the timer NCOs and others in his unit cheering him in and encouraging him. I told him "Come on, strong finish!" and we both took off for the timer guy. As we got closer I said loudly to him "C'mon, kid, I'm an old man..I KNOW you can get to the finish before me." He took me at my work, lol, and was off like a bat outta hell for that last 100 yards. He beat me to the line by about 40 seconds. Big smile on his face and he thanked me and shook my hand so much, I thought my arm was going to fall off, lol. The timer NCO came over and shook my hand and thanked me for helping the kid and told me the kid had passed his timed run...finishing 2 minutes under the qualifying time, the first time he had done that. I told him, well, sometimes a person just needs a bit of incentive...like beating a retired old fart like me, and we both shared a laugh at that. I then completed the rest of my run/walk, I still had a mile to go to get back to the gym. Ended up with 4.2 miles done, plus a nice experience with some of our good young active duty military kids just beginning their military lives. Nice way to start the day.