Taught spin tonight then ran 5 k on the treadmill. I would dearly love to invite one woman, who has been a regular, to never ever show up any class I teach, ever again. I think she gets to the gym on a broom stick. That would probably not be the politically correct thing to do. I will probably end up just ignoring her. Politically correct = trying to convince someone they can pick up a turd by the clean end.

Aw that sounds unpleasant, Shan. Cash - now I'm wondering what the witch is doing to make your life miserable. I saw three deer on my run today in my neighborhood. One of them was more curious than the other two and stared at me until I got about 15-20 meters away, then she took off. 5.1 miles, 46:12, 9:02/mi, AHR 139 (70% mhr) I'm going to see the cardiologist this morning about high blood pressure and have him make sure my ticker is working well otherwise -- no symptoms except the hypertension. My PCP prescribed a diuretic which I think makes no sense for someone who runs like I do, so I wanted another opinion.

Wow, Shan. Squeezing 7 months of mileage into the first 41 days of the year really shows what kind of progress you've made. Good stuff. With all you're going through, that realization must have put a smile on your face. It'll be sometime later this afternoon before I can run. Looks like I'll be squeezing a run in between meetings, so it might be a good day for a pace run.

Bugs - why couldn't you train at the same time? Are your kids too young to be left alone for a couple of hours at a time? My wife and I both run and we love traveling to marathons together, but of course our kids are out of the house so it's no big deal. But of course it's also cool to have two sources of interests in the marriage -- more to talk about

But of course it's also cool to have two sources of interests in the marriage -- more to talk about

Yes your right, it's probably more important that each cares about the other interests, not so important they are the same. Of course when you've got demanding jobs, taking care of kids, day to day exhaustion, it's hard to care about somone's mid-week run.

I saw three deer on my run today in my neighborhood. One of them was more curious than the other two and stared at me until I got about 15-20 meters away, then she took off. 5.1 miles, 46:12, 9:02/mi, AHR 139 (70% mhr) I'm going to see the cardiologist this morning about high blood pressure and have him make sure my ticker is working well otherwise -- no symptoms except the hypertension. My PCP prescribed a diuretic which I think makes no sense for someone who runs like I do, so I wanted another opinion.

Awwww deer, I love seing them (of course NOT while driving). Nice run Lou! GL at the cardiologists!! Hope to hear your ticker is working perfectly!

My husband is a runner. He ran track during highschool but stopped until in his mid 30's. He's ran 3 marathons with me he helped me PR in the Half Mary my very first Half (I've yet to actually PR in the half since). He layed off with the running this past year to work on starting his own business. Thankfully he's starting back up with his running. We're both Gemini's so the fact that were still married is a miracle. Anyways ran 5.5 miles with him today. He has now ran 3 days consecutive which is something he hasn't done in quite some time. It's nice to run with him right now cause there's no competiveness at the moment. He's accepted that he's slower than me ( his own fault for slacking in the running department) and is actually letting me know when I'm going to fast. That's big since other times before stick with my pace then would not run for a week or two. Tomorrow we're doing intervals together (his goal is to do 1:45 400's) We'll see how that works out.

I agree with this!

me too!