Looks like while I was crashing and burning, others were burning up the road! Murphy Way to blow the lid off your goal! Way to finish strong. Good call doing the half pig this year Pace - nice job on the PR. I ran my first race with the wire chip things early this year. I prefer the ones you tie to your shoes. I don't care about shirts for the most part, but I do like to keep all of my race numbers, put the date and my time, maybe a few notes on theback and save them. husker also, nice 5k! Hank - welcome aboard! Is this your first? Still have the heavy leg feeling this morning so I just did 4 easy miles.

Cash, I said to them, "One of you aren't a doctor are you? I'm really sick and could use a doctor." (Nice damsel in distress hook-up right.) The really cute one says, "I'm studying to be a doctor." It took me a whole 30 seconds to figure out he was lying. I said, "Oh you're a doctor of LOOVVVVVE, that's not the kind of doctor I need." It was the nice guy (not not as cute, go figure) that advised me to get back on the street. So it is clear, my judgement in men as a poor as my running clothing choices. BTW, yesterday I saw young men in shorts and thought, "Can't wait till it's 95 and they will be shirtless too. What can I say, I'm 36 and at my peak. Oh I knew I had too many layers on but was afraid I was going to be ill and end up walking a couple of miles. If I had to walk I was going to at least be warm doing it. Shan, Got back home on Saturday and DH had bought a bunch of fans. Not sure it's helping. Think we're going to have to call carpet cleaners. P2R, Thanks. It wasn't easy. I ended the race PIST that I felt so crappy...I'm can't wait to get back and run it again. Hank, HI!!!!!! Australia, wow, that sounds awesome. What made you decide to go there? Still don't have my energy level back. Feel OK, but run and feel weak, but still I logged 25 miles last week. Need to get back to 35.

Shan, You are right, I am sick. I had to break down and lay down in the storage room at work today. Just feel like I'm a balloon loosing air. I'm kind of hoping my DH will figure out what to do about this carpet crap..but he's so sick he's not dealing with it. Think I need to have an affair with a carpet cleaning man. BTW, I run at work all the time, and often keep a full stash of different clothes in my desk drawer, but I have a serious supply of running clothes. Everytime I get hurt or pist at my running I go shopping for a new running outfit. It's been an expensive year.

Murphy, "Rug Doctor" - You know how I go goo goo over doctors. You ran awesome. Am I the only one that slows down after gaining 5 pounds?

ShanHas - IN GENERAL 5x is better than 4x, assuming you're not injured and you cna handle it. 1. long run 2. medium long run 3. quality session 4 short and easy 5. short/medium and easy works really well for me.

Shan, Think you would get a lot of benfit from 5 days of running.

Bugs - next time can you take a picture of your cat in the dryer before rescuing him?? hehe that made me laugh!

My cats LOVE the dryer. OK, not in it. Just on top where its warm. As our farewell to my running partner (along with the other guy I run with at work), we took him out to lunch in Georgetown. In the middle of a 6 mile run. 3 miles to the restaurant. Pizza, some diet cokes, then 3 miles hard back to work. Sort of like playing pizza roulette. Good times