Time for a new week. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Unlike the swamp, you will probably get a weekly summary later.

I guess now is as good a time as any for a weekly summary. With Boston only a week away, last weeks running and totals have dropped as the group collectively tapers for our most cherished marathon. OK, that's a load of crap. There was some tapering, just barely, with Lou and Erika (is anyone else running Boston this year?), dropping back under 40 miles for the first time in recent memory. Mostly though, Team Blister continued training at an almost alarming rate with P2R kicking out another 100+ mile week. For those of you counting at home, that's more than 18 hours spent running in the last 7 days. Jeremy cranked out another 70+ mile week and our newest and perhaps most compulsive addition, AmoresPerros (aka Perry) made sure his mileage topped 70 as well enroute to winning a 5K on Sunday and placing third in another 3 mile race just for grins. Pam demonstrated her relative restraint by checking in under that daunting 70 mile figure. In the battle of the also rans, JellyFish ran another trail marathon and decided she likes roads a bit better. I have little doubt that Bugs made sure she topped my planned 50 mile total with a very impressive 51.4. No OCD there You know its a good running week in Team Blister when Paul and Cash's very solid 30 mile weeks are good for no higher than 14th and 15th places respectively. And its time for an Amber Alert on Murphy. Come back, Murph! You were doing so well. Name Distance Time pace2race 105.2 Mi jhallum 72.2 Mi AmoresPerros* 70.3 Mi rockenmamof5 69.5 Mi Mr Inertia 51.7 Mi Bugs 51.4 Mi JellyFish 50.8 Mi dgb2n 48.6 Mi dcv2002 44 Mi old-runner 41.1 Mi WillRunForBeer 38.9 Mi evanflein 37.1 Mi Kimmie 35 Mi theyapper66 30.8 Mi Cashmason 29.4 Mi VixiDu 28.5 Mi Joe Nation 14.1 Mi Dutchie42 13.2 Mi HuskerB 6.6 Mi

Trying to do my part to keep it rolling. 5 on the treadmill today @ consistent easy pace. Felt fresh afterwards. 6 days in a row for me now. May have a little streak going here.

Erika, nice out of context quote there. This client is an email checking nut, thus I so conviently scheduled a half hour for her to do her own thing around lunch time so I could run six miles. Apparently she is not aware what we are charging her per hour for the training this week.

I did the 2 by 6 workout today. 2 six mile tempo/pace runs at MP minus 5 to 10 secs with 5 minutes between them. For the marathon I want to run, that's 7:05s. Did it, more or less, though I am the master of pace inconsistency.

Dayum Bugs 6 miles in a half hour..... you are fast.

Thanks for the summary, Dave. You missed your calling as a hometown reporter...

Not me?

I dunno Bugs -- 7 minutes is pretty fast. I can take a shower in 4 minutes (washing what little hair I have, based on campground metered limit for $1), but it takes me more than a few minutes to get dressed, I think. Of course, normally I'm not trying to break any records in the morning.