dave - where is our summary???

Absolutely no rest for the wicked. Good thing I'm off work. Last week was another banner week for Team Blister with lots of miles run all around and some serious season skipping weather. Spring decided to take the year off and we skipped right to summer. Except in Boston, where it was still the tail end of winter. Boston brought mixed results with Lou scoring a great PR and running perhaps the happiest damn marathon I've ever seen. Had I seen him at the 20 mile mark, I might have tripped him intentionally just to wipe that smile off his face. But I'm only bitter because my own marathon conditions were so tough. Kimmie and P2R had a great time on a relay race, met for the first time in person (would be interesting to do a who's met who graphic), and ran very strongly. Shan is almost single handedly trying to keep the american automobile industry in business logging more miles in her car than I've logged in the last year on RA. Back to Nashville for the CMM and running in the face of a lingering injury. In oppressive heat. Team Blister had a banner day in Toledo despite the oppressive northern Ohio April heat (never thought I'd have to type that). Jeremy came within 2 minutes of a HM PR and finished 3rd in his age group. The biggest surprise came later when I found out that my fast start and slightly less shuffling finish was good for 2nd place in my age group in the marathon. And to be fair, a truly pathetic age group it must have been. This was only made a little worst by the fact that the winner of the marathon set a worlds record for fastest marathon wearing a costume (in his case dressed as Rocky Balboa, complete with boxing gloves and a black wig). For real. http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/photocard.aspx?pc=7F7C5065687134E824CEEBFE7579D59E Today's summary just talks about the racers. We've got MrI starting to taper for his next marathon soon and hopefully some cooler weather for some PR and BQ races at Bayshore coming up. Here's the weekly damage with our usual high mileage knuckleheads at the top. AmoresPerros 73.3 Mi 10:36:07 rockenmamof5 64.3 Mi 10:13:02 jhallum 64 Mi 8:24:46 DanMoriarity 52.2 Mi 6:43:18 WillRunForBeer 47.7 Mi 6:47:33 dgb2n 41.4 Mi 5:58:47 pace2race 40.3 Mi 6:16:50 Bugs 40.3 Mi 1d 22hr Mr Inertia 38.1 Mi 5:48:53 dcv2002 35.4 Mi 4:17:53 Cashmason 33.5 Mi 5:13:43 VixiDu 33 Mi 5:23:50 Dutchie42 28.1 Mi 5:08:02 Joe Nation 27.1 Mi 5:01:24 HuskerB 26.6 Mi 4:19:25 JellyFish* 26.2 Mi 5:34:52 Kimmie 23.6 Mi 3:52:33 old-runner 23.5 Mi 3:13:49 theyapper66 20.9 Mi 4:39:50 evanflein 13.3 Mi 1:58:30

Dave - it's about time - ugh I meant thanks!!! Pam - I forgot to thank you for providing the group the updates on me!! and nice racing people!!!!

Hey I got me a half this Sunday and am starting my taper for Run for the Red (May 17) soon Looks like I started tapering a bit earlier than planed

Pam - you did not overstep at all! You gave them enough to let them know i was alive and well and saved the details for me. Thank you for that. And life does seem to provide cut-backs even if we aren't ready for them to happen, but the hay is in the barn already - you will do great!

I no longer feel bad about having such low weekly mileage... I just don't.... everyone's different and it seems to work for me.

now that is music to my ears!

Note to self: avoid any marathons where Dave is anywhere near.

Bugs 40.3 Mi 1d 22hr

Now that's some easy running. I'm not that slow.

Murphy, Great to hear from you. Glad your back is better.

HEY ALL. havent run at all. My back feels 100%. Marathon Sunday. At least I can say I know what Im getting into. Been in this situation before. Gonna go into it like I did Columbus last year. Will Run/Walk at least through the early hills. Just gonna have fun. Not gonna sweat over my time.

sounds like a smart plan Murphy! it's how I went into CMM. Sometimes it's just the way it needs to go!