Hope to hear your ankle is feeling better Kimmie!!

Healing vibes to PDR"S knee! Knee stuff SUCKS!

COME ON MISSING PEEPS CHECK IN!!!!

I'll be cheering Amanda on this Sunday. Who knows if I can I just might run the last 10k with her.

Today is mid long run day. I'll be doing 12 hilly miles with my RP. I have a love/hate relationship with hills. 

I'm not really training for anything at the moment Kimmie. My plan is to do 2 quality (one of which WAS to be intervalls however my garmin is dead so that rules that out)  workouts a week and a bunch of easy miles (though hills are NOT every really easy lol) I figure I SHOULD have 6 weeks to get some type of speedworkouts in weather gets too bad. DH WAS talking about racing a 5k together however he screwed up his calf a few weeks ago (running his long run too fast) so I have a feeling my next race will be in December (1st of a 4 race series) and my next GOAL race will be in April

Pam - what do you mean about the garmin being dead?  Sometimes a soft or hard reset will fix.  soft reset is pressing power+lap at the same time -- I forget hard reset, but the soft usually works.

Sorry to hear about the Garmin, Pam.  I've had no trouble with mine and have had it for about a year now.  Hopefully the people @ garmin will take care of it for you.

An easy 3 miles this morning.  I've got 8 on the schedule tomorrow and then next week just 3 short runs before the race Saturday.  Did I mention that I'm getting shirts made for me and my family?  Here's mine:

FRONT:

BACK:

All 17 members of my family are getting a short-sleeve shirt (mine is on a long-sleeve cool max shirt) that has the big print on the front but with the words "We were there on Stephen's FORTIETH" since they aren't running.  They have no idea I've gotten them made and I'll give them out Friday night.  Should be pretty special and I can't wait.

Have a great race, Pace! I'll be thinking of ya!

Great shirts, Paul, I know your family will love them.

Easy 6 for me today. I was gonna run 10-14 tomorrow but I'm feeling really tired and I think I'll take the rest. 8 days out from my target half marathon, race will do me more good than piling on more miles.

Pam, your Garmin's doing exactly what mine was doing about four months ago. I sent it away to Garmin and they sent me back a refurbished one at no charge. (Well, first we tried rubber-banding it to the base to see if it just wasn't staying on the charger, but when that didn't work I had to deal with being Garmin-less for about ten days.) New one works like a champ. Hope you can figure it out soon!

I'm TIRED!!  My RP decided to try a new route (one that she has always WONDERED what it would be like to run up instead of drive) and DAMN there were a couple LONG ASS HILLS! I had to walk a few times (probably was faster walking than running lol) This is a route that I want to do every other week for as long as I can up until Boston. It's got steep uphills and downhills. She miscalculated and instead of it being a 6 mile out and 6 mile back it was more like 4.25 each way so we ran around town to get the last few miles. Other than the time I was running up and up and up and thinking I was about to crest the hill only to find out that it was getting steeper instead it was very enjoyable. Not a run I'd do by myself cause I'd wimp out.  One thing I love about her is she is not afraid to come up with a challenging route!  I SHOULD be really sore tomorrow, we shall see.

Sorry for the not checking in thing.  Work went a little crazy.  I can message a link to a news site if people are curious.  Ugh...

I'm glad my co-workers don't have guns. I'd be SOL.