Welcome back EatsFood.  It is hard getting the pace back to where it was before, and getting the ease back.  I know that it will come in time but in the meantime it feels so much harder than I remember.  At the same time, it feels good to be able to do any running at all, even if I really am a waddling penguin again.

Cherie - nice drawing!  You are a good artist.  You're smart to pull back on the training if you aren't feeling it.  When I hiked the John Muir Trail several years ago, I spent months training for it, since it was my first time hiking at altitude.  The 211 mile hike was a good one, but lonely, since I was solo and only spent a few nights with other people.  I got burned out.  After I was home again, it took a couple of months before I was ready to do more than an occasional dayhike.  I had worked too hard before my hike, and once I had accomplished the goal, I really wasn't in the mood to work that hard again.  Then one weekend I went on a trip with some friends in Yosemite, and I was back, hooked on hiking again.  Two years later I rehiked the Appalachian Trail.  I think though if I hadn't given myself permission to back off until I was ready, I would never have done another long hike.  In your case, once it cools off, you may feel like pushing yourself again, or you may just enjoy a quiet winter running when you are in the mood.

Jimmy - I understand about being paranoid about HM training.  I've signed up for three races that I never got to run.  For now, if I do run a HM, it will be something I sign up for on the day of the race - not months in advance.  Fortunately, our 3 local HMs allow that.  I figure I'll build up my mileage again, but not train specifically for another race.  If I am feeling ready at the time the next race is on, I'll run it.  If not, no loss.

Coralie - what is the high supposed to be on Saturday?  Also, I was wondering if you are in the part of Louisiana with the water problems?  (Brain eating amoeba!)

Traci - I'd rather see snakes than run into spiders.  So far the only snakes I've seen while running were dead.

Eats is Cheryl, a penguin from the old guard.  Or second guard.  What was your prior screen name?  I forgot.

Hey Eats!

Ginny, high is supposed to be 84 on Saturday. No brain eating amoebas in this parish! I think it's St Bernard? Further south.

Hey Eats!

 

Ginny, high is supposed to be 84 on Saturday. No brain eating amoebas in this parish! I think it's St Bernard? Further south.

And in other news of the weird, I have done work on Naegleria.  One of my investigators works on it, so I've done some proteomics on the organism.

I don't do proteomics on that.

I don't do proteomics on that.

Would be weird if you did....