Hope you have a nice recovery run Paul! Hope to hear your feeling better ASAP Shan. Glad to hear your feeling better Dave and that you had a nice run with the wife! Hope you're able to get in the miles that you would like this week! Good to see you Mr I! Hope you have a great day Hey Brian nice 10 miler yesterday! Like everyone ele PIC PIC PIC Good afternoon Lou Enjoy your time with dh at the gym tonight Erika!

Get well Dave and Shan! The winter's almost over, there's no more time to be sick. ;-) My wife has had a big time sinus infection for the last four days. It got so bad on Friday that fluids backed up into her eye, and she ended up with an infected eye. Just not cool at all. Got in 10.5 today, back at work after last week's class. Hopefully things will be back to normal for a few weeks. It's time for me to start putting the hammer down in terms of mileage. I'm hoping for 70 this week, and maintain that distance for most of the rest of the spring. We'll see how that goes, I guess. It's getting warm enough in flashes here to start thinking about that kind of mileage for real.

I've dabbled a bit here and there with low heart rate running, but for the most part it frustrates me to no end. I did, though, take a nice easy run today since it was going to be a recovery run anyway. 5 miles total - brisk 1 mile walks sandwiching a 3 mile run in the middle. AHR was 142 during the 3 mile segment which is 1 below the low HR target. It felt very nice. Hope all our sick ones get better! On a side note from the weekend, I ran from one town to another. 10 miles total, a lot of hills. But the best part is watching people's eyes get big when I tell them I went from my town to a neighboring one. They flip out and I just smile. Funny.

OK, let's give this a try. Well, only took a few edits, sorry they're so huge, couldn't figure out how to make them smaller. Kept shrinking them, but they didn't get smaller.

Brian, THAT IS THE CUTEST BABY EVER, and I DON"T say that to everybody. He looks just perfect and innocent as ever. I look at him and can see a 16 year old heart breaker tell his Dad, "Really pops I didn't put that big dent in the car." Cash, Since my husband thinks fishing is harder than running a marathon I don't think we'll even compare it to childbirth. I can push a kid out in 15 minutes flat though, so maybe I'm in the wrong sport. I swam yesterday. Wow are my arms out of shape. Some of things I've been figuring out is what has worked for me and what hasn't the last three years. I thought I recovered much better when I did the breast stroke later in the day after a long run so I'm trying that again this year. I keep it really easy on the legs, and my stroke is not politically correct but it doesn't really matter. If it wasn't for being sick, think I would have ran comfortably today.

That is definitely a cute baby, Brian -- nice picture of both of them, too. I started running well after my wife, so it can be done. She was two marathons ahead of me until she got injured and had to watch me run Chicago, so now only one. But she'd been running for maybe 10 years (recently) before me and had trained for several marathons before her first (kept getting stress fractures). I used to brag about only running 40 yards at a time when I played indoor soccer -- thinking I was getting fit playing that sport was ludicrous. I almost started running with her quite a while ago, but had a bad experience trying to run on vacation in Orlando, so kept with the soccer back then. But again, getting a spouse to run is possible -- but probably can't make him/her - the spouse needs to want to run themselves. Kind of like losing weight or quitting smoking -- you can't convince someone to do it if they don't want to do it themselves.

Aw, Shan -- it's no fun being sick. Hope you get better soon. Sleep will help. So as intervals go, 5x600m is pretty easy. 8.1 miles, 1:04:09, 7:55/mi, AHR 154 (77%mhr) 5x600m, 90 sec intervals 2:28(163),2:24(164),2:18(169),2:26(173),2:27(169) Avg pace for the sessions was about 6:31/mi, but like I say 600m repeats are pretty easy.

What a beautiful baby, Brian Thanks for sharing those. Hope you feel better Shan. I want to beat your mileage but not this way Stop that swimming, Bugs. You don't want to encourage Cash.