Kimmie I think that sounds like the right move! Very nice!

Thanks for the update Dave. It's Bayshore for me as well. Sounds like a decent RA contingent there (I count at least 5-10 prolific posters). Happy Birthday Pace! We hosted a little Super Bowl party last night, and I stepped on the scale this morning and said "Gah!" (So did the missus). I don't understand how I can run so much and not lose anything (actually, I think I do understand, I just don't want to admit it). So, again, it's time to swear off of the sugar again, and see if I can get down about 10 pounds. We had a health screening as a part of work last week (they did a basic health test and blood work) and gave you $100 for the privilege. They are using the money to generate statistics on what they need to target amongst the staff population to help them and us reduce health costs across the board. Sounds progressive and interesting, and I hope it works. Anywho, it was funny, because they put all of your results into a computer and spit out things that it thinks you need to work on. The first one was eating right (which I pretty much already knew), but I also had told the computer how much I was eating in the fall, and I don't think it knew how to deal with people who had a high caloric intake. The second amused me, it was alcohol management (and if you knew me at all, I'm lucky if I have two drinks a month). They either had a box for one drink a day, or no drinks at all, so I strangely put in 1 drink a week. So, the worker drone who was tabulating my results gave me a leaflet on alcohol management In the end it wasn't a complele waste of my time. I got to know my LDL and HDL (low, and high, appropriately), and I got $100 (pretax). Who can complain about that?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pace!!! Nice runs Pace and Mr. I Great summary Dave! GORGEOUS Day (at least until after I got my run done lol) I ran in shorts and my legs were screaming FREEDOM!!!!!!!! Needless today todays 6 mile "recovery run" turned into a little over 9 miles and if I didn't have to get home I would have run at least 2-3 more. Totally DID NOT expect todays run to feel so great! Not sure why my legs didn't feel tired after yesterdays long run. Anyway as you might be able to tell I'm totally psyched at how my training is going. Last year I made the mistake of ramping up to 300 miles in January ,BIG mistake. I spent alot of Feb side lined and didn't find out until end of March or beg of April that I had recovered from a stress fracture.

I ALMOST signed up for Bayshore jhallum, however after doing New Jersey last year I had decided FLAT was NOT for me. Course lately I've been questioning my decision. Oh well guess I'm one for punishment signing up for a marathon that has killer hills at the end of the course. BTW don't give up because of what the scale said this morning! I'll have to go find the article "why scales lie". Bet you both were retaining water.

I have as of yet to run...i am already hurting, woke up hurting and its raining...so maybe at least if one or the other stops...I'll go. Yall impress and inspire me....

Thanks for the birthday wishes y'all. Good to see you Bugs. Jeremy, my scale said the same thing to me today! As for running Myrtle easy and National as a goal.... well, I think I will see what happens. I'm fairly sure that I won't run Myrtle easy. I think that even though my training was not optimal, it was decent. So, I will go out with a plan and then have National as a possible back up. I signed up for the National half today and I know you can bump up to the full, but only if they spots open. So, we'll see. Pam, I 'm just fascinated with how you're able to run so much. Have you spent awhile building up? And Erika, I'm with you on feeling blah... the only reason I got out to run today was because of my friends. And it was awesome.... super sunny day. So hang in there... some wine perhaps?

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