Hello everyone! I took the weekend off, I had already covered right at 20 miles for the week and my legs were a bit sore. Enjoyed Saturday though! What a great day for some SEC football!!! Did get a good workout in Sunday morning before church however. Really feeling it this morning, my whole body is sore, lol.

One more weekend before my 10k! I'm so excited. I haven't done a race in a really long time.

C Goal is to at least beat my old PR - 56:17 (Chip Time), 56:49 (Gun time)

B Goal is to run it in in the 55:30-55:45 range.

A Goal is sub 55:30

Gustav - Awesome job on the 40 mile week!

Docket - Sorry about the migraine

Bin - How is DD doing?

Hog - Enjoy the 5, and good luck with the half Sat. What is your goal?

Philie - have fun with the 8

Awood - Have fun with the taper.

Jack - Enjoy the SRD

Traci - Sorry to hear your shin is giving you problems. Just curious but have you tried the Keinsiology tape? There is videos all over Youtube on how to tape various injuries and at least your legs are already shaved Muellers tape at Walgreens is only 10 bucks for a roll and its seems to stick much better than KT Tape.

PAD - You will do well come half time

Good morning Penguins.  I was roaming around the neighborhood and saw the welcome mat.  Haven't stopped by in quite a while now.

Hope you all enjoy what you have planned for the day.

Rest day for me.

PAD -- I second this.  Since it will be an automatic PR, try not to stress too much and enjoy the experience.  There will be other opportunities to worry, but this is the only HM that you can race at whatever pace feels right on race day without comparing to previous races.

PAD: I thought your HM was this week. Just stick to the plan and you will be fine. I wouldn't change it too much because it's your first HM. Get one under your belt and you will get an idea of what works and doesn't work.

 

Good morning Penguins!   Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Gustav-- that's a fantastic running week!  Not only is that great on miles, but you ran a lot of quality workouts also.  I'm smiling with you!

Docket-- sure hope your migraine gets better quickly.  What a bad way to start the day.

Hi ya Bin, Mitch, and Margo!

Awood-- it will go well! All your training was preparing you for whatever circumstances come up.  No need to worry about those unusual cases you can't predict.  Besides with 2 weeks left, you still have some more decent runs to get in.

Jack-- awesome 20 mile run!  You're the man.  Its really not that much longer is it?  I think you just might win the whole darn thing! 

tracilynn--  I'm so sorry you're having such a hard time with these shin splints.  It does seem that they are constantly giving you trouble.  I wish there was something helpful I could say, but I know there isn't.     Hang in there.  I loved the description of your hardcore look back in your 20s.  I totally wish you had pics!

PAD-- you have plenty of time to get a 13 miler in before the race.  If you don't though, just  doing the 12 will be fine for a HM.  Either way should be okay, as long as you don't overdo it too close to race day.  But as Margo says, its still just the first one.  You'll get lots of chances to do lots of different HM schedules in the future.

HsM-- Hey ya!  So cool that you got to see old friends from back home.  At least you got a 3 day weekend before you had to do the boring stuff today.  Poor little Dusty.  Hope he heals up soon.

jimmy-- You spent Saturday watching football with my hubby I guess.  He said it was an exciting, day with lots of upsets.  Good job on the miles and the gym workout.

Robert-- Hi ya!  The welcome mat is always out.  Hope you're doing alright, and the training for your upcoming half is going well.

Bin-- Can't believe your baby girl is still ill.  I was thinking most newborn jaundice would clear up fairly quickly.  Good for you for taking turns bringing her to the doctor.  I know you and your DW both must be quite tired and stressed right now.  Sending angel kisses to the little one.

She Can - It was most definitely an interesting day! My wife was right there beside me though on the edge of her seat as well. Beyond happy to see Texas lose to Auburn!

I meant to tell you all this earlier. I found out Saturday that a good friend of mine had a friend of his pass away. He was the baseball coach for the 5-6 year old baseball team. He was married with a 5 year old son. He had gotten over a really bad stomach virus and was planning to fly out Saturday to go to the Auburn / Texas game. He died very suddenly, have not heard anything back from the autopsy. Very sad news just keep the family in your thoughts and prayers.

I haven't ran yet this morning, but plan on getting about 6 or 7 today.

I didn't get any running in this weekend, but I did have so much fun volunteering for the race I thought I'd share a few pics from it. and do a bit of a VR (volunteer report.)

The Bisbee 1000 is our areas largest race.  It is limited to just over 2000 runners in a town with a population of 7000.  People come from all over.  It only about 4-1/2 miles but has over 1000 stairs going up the mountain side.  Here's one fraction of one of the many staircases.  Most of them have well over 100 steps each:

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I was got to help with many aspects of the race.  One of the neatest one, is that I got to man the main start line.  Here's some of the pictures of got from here:

Firefighters getting ready to go.  Aren't they so cute!?!? :

After the main race, there's a upstair sprint race for those who might have any energy left.  Its one person at a time, go as fast as you can. They'd changed the course this year, so I was posted to make sure everyone went the right direction and nobody went rolling down the mountain.  Between racers, I got a picture of a lady who's running group from Ontario, Canada made this their destination race of the year.

After the race, the 2nd annual beer fest followed.  Here's a few of the costumed runners enjoying themselves.  The young man swears he's not Richard Simmons:

The people next to me were a total blast, cutting up and listening to music (local band Cat Daddy and the 12 Barz Blues Band.)  If you have a minute you can watch the youtube video of these runners dancing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anP8Br7slUA

Afterwards I was taken to dinner by the band. All in all it was a wonderful fun experience.  I ended up probably more tired then if I'd ran the race.  I started the day at 5 a.m. and spent many hours on my feet standing, running, waving flags, issuing directions and most of all cheering.  I didn't get home until after 7:30 that evening.  One of the things I liked about this race was that it was founded by a woman, and still ran by her and community women.

Did y'all see the little penguin pic I posted yesterday? It was a pumpkin painted up and it was cute.

I sure did, Mitch, it was sooooo cute.  I didn't realize it was a pumpkin though!  Us penguins get around!

Also, Zelanie:  LOVED LOVED LOVED the dreadlocks picture!  You were too freaking cute (well you still are.)