I hope the weather isn't getting the better of anyone's running plans as we get further into July. Tell us what's going on with you. How's your running? Targetting any upcoming races?

Got to run in the rain last night! It wasn't on purpose, but I kept on since I was already out there. Had a good run. No further problems from my IT band, and last week I started taking ibuprofin in order to try to help knock down what I *think* is bursitis. So I've been hurting less than usual. One more week of three runs and then I'm planning to try to move up to 4 runs/wk. Slowly. Oh, and for all the turtles out there, I'm finding that my runs are hanging out around 14 minute miles. And I'm proud of it!!!

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Turtlechick, That was scary! That is always my worst fear when I ride my motorcycle in the winter. Winz, I wish it would rain here. I used to love running in the rain and it's so soothing to my asthma. I used to feel like I could run twice as far when it was raining. This morning was the beginning of my OHR 5th week and it went very smoothly. I sweat more that I used to which tells me I'm able to work harder and perhaps speeding up a bit. I feel almost sad that I ran this morning because I wish I could go out again. I am so past addicted.

Hey, everyone! I'm behind on reading all the updates, but it sounds like you are all doing well. I'm on my last 3 weeks of training before our biking vacation. We managed to ride 20 miles on Friday and another 38 on Saturday. I had to work today, so didn't get out and I'm on jury duty tomorrow. So, I hope to be back on the bike on Wednesday. My goal is to do 100 mile weeks now to get ready. I may try and sneak in an occasional run, but I'll wait until after the trip to actually get back on OHR.

Just checking in with everyone. I'm sitting here in W. Virginia with ice on my left shin area. I'm still expecting to run on Friday which will be the last run of OHR W4. I will have rested for 9 days and I think I'll be up for a nice long, SLOW run.

Just finished OHR W4D3. It's an obstacle course out there after the big storm that took out our power last week - fallen trees to jump over, sticks to trip on, broken branches to duck under. But it was a good run. goddess9 - the podcasts were not my favorite kind of music by a long shot, but it was really helpful to me to have someone else keeping track of the intervals. I repeated week 5, and couldn't face listening to the same podcast for the 6th time, so the second time I did the 20 minute run I put together a playlist on my ipod that lasted pretty close to 20 minutes, and then I just use my $10 Target watch to keep the time. quotidianlight - I hope I can get as addicted as you! I'm still at the having-to-push-myself-mentally-to-get-out-there stage. But I'm right behind you in the OHR!

And does anyone remember the playlist for W4? It's really...interesting music, LOL.

C25k, W4? Yeah - I think there are some mixing problems in the second half. Like two songs are overlapping each other. The music on the podcasts are not really my style, but the tracking of the intervals far outweighs the music choices for me. I'm looking forward to finishing Cto5K and getting out on the OHR timed runs with my own music (or no music at all!) Meg - Congrats on finishing! What's next for you? I had an overly busy weekend and missed my W4D3 run last week. So I did it yesterday and now W5 is a bit off for me. I have a 2 mile fun run scheduled for Saturday and so I have to either fit two runs in over four days or skip one of the W5 days. I may just skip W5D1 and do W5D2 on Thursday. I'm finding that at this point, I really need a recovery day (or two) and don't want to be sore going into Saturday's 2 mile run. Given where the 2 mile run starts and knowing the geography of the area, I know that it's going to be very hilly. I'm anticipating that I'll probably be last - but hoping that there will be some walkers so maybe I'll be second to last!