I really planned on getting up this morning for my run, but when the tornado sirens went off at midnight I knew that was out of the question. Then we lost power for a couple of hours so my alarm . . . Sorry, won't bore you with the details, but I'm tired. I'll get them in tonight, and maybe even take my son along. He's a big fan of my runs. Oh, also found out earlier this week that I'll be a dad for the 2nd time in January. Pretty excited.

Woot, Woot! Guess runnign wasn't a priority every morning. Really good week of running for me tihs week, and really looking forward to my 17 mile run tomorrow.

Congrats husker!! I've heard that power outages cause that sort of thing Shan, your power didn't go out, did it? 5.5 foggy miles for me this morning. Felt really good other than some slightly dead legs after doing dead lifts on Thursday. Guess that's why they call them dead lifts... Just noticed that my weekly mileage was 26.2. Unplanned and cool

Dave - oh I wish!! so my 6-10 today did not happen... 2 and change happened. my legs were pretty tired so i turned it into a recovery run and did not eat the paste. I figure my mileage has been the most consistent my running has ever been so I am NOT going to beat myself up over this!

Duathlons done. Self-timed about :30 seconds slower than last year. Much more wind and higher temps this year. Ag day at the State Fair Grounds had the tractors out parading. Start delay did not work in keeping us off the road at the same time. Nothing like having to slalom on blacktop on the road bike inbetween tractors. First run was 7:30 miles m/l. Avg over 18mph on the bike and then shaved a minute off my brick run time last year and still have myself slightly slower overall. Wind and the extra weight I'm packing did me in. FWIW I was trashed last year after this. This year I did the run course at tempo pace after the race to get a couple more miles in. AG places went 5 deep so I snuck in with the 5th place bronze.

Good job pace!!

Way to get hardware Pace. Bugs, your mileage is pretty high for someone who was injured not that long ago. 33 hilly miles through the canyon today with a couple of friends from Minnesota. One of them was a lineman for the Gophers a few years ago.

Way to get hardware Pace. Bugs, your mileage is pretty high for someone who was injured not that long ago.

Not sure which injury you're thinking of but, I've been blessed with a really good graston doctor and physical therapist elite runner friend who've giving me therapy to ward off problems and advice of when to cut back and when it's OK to train through an owe like my left shin that likes to be cranky. This week was my third week of 40ish mpw in seven weeks. 40 mpw felt really good this week, and I feel great today. I think good running takes patience. But offically entering marathon training this month and am holding myself back a tish from adding more miles, running LRs every other week, and adding some biking to a mix. I really just want to make it to the start line and run this marathon happy. But at some point, even with injury a risk, we have to just put all of ourselves out there and go for it right? God I'd kill for a latte this morning, with caffeine please.

Mr. I - here is what I learned from a children's equestrian show - it's all about the pretty colored ribbons!! 90 degrees is HOT when running... only did 1 mile... my plan for the week is to get 10 miles in early in the week (total) then sail easy into saturday... Ohh i'm nervous and excited!