Sorry about the headache, I can completely understand how you are feeling, thats no fun at all. I hope its not a real serious one! Get home and get you some sleep, you will likely not get much Saturday night if you suffer from pre race jitters . Make sure to get back with us with a RR after your race!

Thanks!  That's the plan right now anyway   I always try to get a good night sleep 2 nights before a race so I'm rested up some if I have a hard time sleeping the night before!

HA....Just got back from Detroit.  I stopped in Hell to work on some wedding plans. 

 

Now, I have to get out and run 7 miles.  Why seven?  Because that will put me at 80 miles in the last 14 days.  That's right, the streak is in tact.  I got in some miles on the old dreadmill at the hotel. 

 

My streak by the end of tonight:

14 days

80 miles

feeling great!!!

Way to go man!!! How do you like the new Nike+ leaderboard they added? I think its pretty cool, unfortunetly I use a Garmin and use a website to convert my data over to Nike+ and its broken until the guy gets back from vacation and resolves the issue its having with the new Nike+ format.

15 degrees, goodness Brady!   That'll make your falls ball off..err, your...well, you know what I mean.  If it ever gets to 15 degrees here, I'm moving!

Nice running, Jimmy! If we ever do a race together, here's the plan:  you go on ahead, I'll catch up by sunset. 

Well, Dave, I think you're ready for the half!  I better not post on Daily Mile, too many people would get hurt from laughing so hard at my mileage.

How cold is COLD for you, Jerry?  Are you in one of those REAL winter states?

Good luck with the half on Sunday (there will be Great Legs photos of you, right, with all this warm weather we're having), and hope the headaches are a no-show for you, especially on race day.

Congrats on your swim, HsM.  So did the college kids give right-of-way to the senior person there? 

Good luck with your PR mileage this weekend, Kristi!

Wedding plans?  Who are you marrying now, Awood?    Dang, 80 miles in 14 days.  You better be careful, you might suddenly turn into Dave!

I went to New Braunfels (about a 30 minute drive from San Antonio) to get my race packet for tomorrow; saves time, don't have to hassle with the lines that way on Race Day.   My buddy, Scott, whose company (he owns it) is doing all the race stuff (packet pick up, race timing, course, etc) told me this last week registration really shot up and there will probably be around 1,600 for the Jingle Bell 5K tomorrow, wow.  When I first did this event way back in 1994 when I first got here, it was a small event of maybe 300 people.  It has grown so much in popularity that the venue even had to be moved, that is why it is in Gruene now.  This many is great for the recipient, St. Jude's Ranch.  A lot of the credit goes to Scott, he really does a great job with advertising, getting sponsors, etc., and puts on a heckuva race.  This one goes all around scenic Gruene, Texas, and we finish back at the dance hall to all kinds of food waiting for us, and beer (Yeah!) and music, and photos with Santa if we want to get them (the kids there will love that) and door prizes, etc.  With this many people, I will probably go crazy taking photos, so my apologies in advance for what is probably going to be a long report with LOTS of photos.  I might even hit the 100 mark.

jblack - I'm just not getting back into good terms with Nike+.  When they first updated the software was when it crashed two days in a row, and lost two of my streak runs.  Oh well, I know they happened, and technically I deleted the one run.  It said I was running 30 second miles or something crazy.  Now that it's working right again, I can see the leader board.  Until my only Nike+ friend, you, get up and going again...it just shows what I'm running.  I need to add more friends...lol 

Scotty - You've read about my fiance plenty...lol  Turn into Dave?  That would mean I could win my age division, and run sub-20 5K's.  I'm cool with that.

Well, I just got back.  It's cold and rainy.  I'll take one or the other, but not both.  So, I had to turn to the dreadmill for the second day in a row.  I knocked out 7.1 miles though.  I'm going to do my best to keep this going until January, and then slowly start to put some quality work back into the schedule.  Once I know the date of the Chi Town Half Marathon, I'll put together my training plan on a base mileage of 40 mpw.  My current PR doesn't stand a chance!

Mitch, I take imitrex.  Also script.  Works well for me but lots of folks dont care for it.