Thanks for starting us off, Marjorie...at 2.51!     You are the early bird today!

Drink enough coffee, LRB, you could just run to work!

Basya slept in!  Is the world ending?

Happy vacation, Phil!  Some nice running for you, you have come back from that knee surgery with a sonic BOOM!

Nice on your miles, DaveP.  Umm, best to try and keep the original model.  My left knee has been screwed since surgery.  Literally!  It has a big screw all the way through it.  No big deal most of the time, but some days it acts up.

Aww, poor doggie, Zelanie.  Hope the vet can figure it out, and it is nothing serious.

Sorry about 'no worse than usual' think, Oski.  I think that becomes the prognosis for quite a few of us as we get older, lol.  My doc tells me I am a walking-talking, living, breathing medical case history book for her medical students, lol.  Here's hoping you go from 'no worse than usual' to 'feeling really good".  Hope the PT helps.

Ugg, Andrew, your work day today sounds so lovely...   Good luck!

Way to get your miles in already, Damaris!  Good luck with the working at home today.

GOOD morning, all!

I set out for 10 miles, temps in the low 60s, sun shining, on a rail-trail through wetlands and woods ... and came back 12 miles later.

9:44 overall pace. I intended to keep it slow, but kept creeping up a bit: 10:16, 10:04, 9:56, 9:35, 9:41, 9:30, 9:44, 9:50, 9:44, 9:26, 9:30, 9:28. Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting a small bit of my mojo back.

 

Mine was a different injury (hip & achilles) but what I did was a bunch of short runs last summer/fall heading into Detroit.

 

So instead of running 7 miles a day, a midweek long run, and a Sunday long run, I ran 5 to 6 miles every other day and limited my Sunday run to 8 to 10 miles until October when I ran 14, 15, and finally 16 miles the Sunday before the event.

 

Having successfully trained for a marathon this year will help you get away with that.  No, you will not hit your pre-injury time goal, but at this point, the only place you really want to be is in that starting corral race day morning, with more than a punchers chance to run a decent marathon.

 

Ha! I am about 90% thinking DNS right now, and seems most other forumite comments on the subject support that position. But you make a strong case for the other 10% that is making me reconsider. I have about 18 days till the transfer deadline to decide....

4 miles done at runch. Went back into the gym to shower and get dressed, came outside and it was pouring. Good timing.

Maybe more after work if the weather cooperates.

Mia is back from the vet. I am relieved that they didn't have to keep her.  We are trying fluids and anitbiotics until tomorrow and see what happens.  I'm also trying to get in touch with my FIL who had her while we were away, because there's a chance it could be salmon poisoning.

We had been planning on going camping this weekend.  DH would stay home with Mia, but at what point do you just say trying to go is more trouble than just skipping it?  And of course, if we don't go, there's a 5K I could run on Saturday.   On the other hand, how many chances will I have to camp with DD (she's 15)  before she isn't interested anymore?

Thanks, D!  I snuck my 6-mile run in while Mia was napping in her crate.  She seems a lot more comfortable already.  Anti-nausea meds, fluids, plus nothing in her system to irritate her must be working its magic.  And FIL says she didn't have any fish, so that's also a relief.

They couldn't diagnose for sure because she didn't have any poo left in her for a sample.  Only blood.  But apparently as long as she responds to treatment it doesn't matter.  If not, we do more testing tomorrow.

I worked with a teacher who drove from Colorado to Oregon with her husband and 7 cats.  She said it wasn't fun, but they all made it in one piece.