And Dave you know I was just playing with you right?? because my mileage will probably never beat yours again and I only managed that cause you are hurt... i was just giving you some snark...

Absolutely. It never even crossed my mind that you weren't joking. Truth is, I'd love for you to beat my mileage. Safely. And I ran 4 miles today because I'll be damned if I'll let a little girl beat me.

And I'd like to apologize to the other women in our group for the obviously snarky and sexist comment in my post above. I didn't really mean it.

10 & change this morning followed by some core work. I felt fresh after a weekend of sitting in the woods. Was it ever cold in that tree. Felt I was dressed for a moonwalk rather than a hunting trip. Back at it this weekend so the running must happen through the week. Toyed with the idea of doing a double today but now that it's dark and supper is on the stove simmering I don't see it happening. DS2 is asking to go to the basketball game tonight at his school. He has never shown any interest before so I suspect a prospective young lady is involved. Brian: Sorry for the trouble last weekend. I was thinking a cartilage tear in the rib cage butI think it would hurt all the time. DD did that in school by just doing a normal sleepy stretch with her arms. It hurt her all the time and the Doc said it just happens and it would heal. Is there any tenderness along the ribs? Sounds like it is a new kind of side stitch maybe? Bugs: Requested permission for the spreadsheet. Time to head the kiddo to the game.

P2R, Access granted. You can remove your gmail email from your post so you don't get a bunch of spam. How was hunting? Deer hunting, right? DH didn't get a deer. He had only license to shoot buck. He sits in our back yard, wood lot, and I watch from inside. There was many doe, no buck. I kind of feel bad for bambi, but would rather have a happy husband. Brian, I have not a clue what that was. I think you just count yourself lucky that if it was a one time deal and not a new injury coming up. Murphy, You got LOTS of endurance from those prior marathons. Your schedule was really only a one week taper. I'd concentrate on getting one good faster long run in, and nothing but easy runs after that. Nobby would tell you a LR of 3 hours, and after that no run over 60 minutes, most more like 30-40 minutes. I had a good workout tonight. 35 minutes of stair running. How many miles would you guess that to be? I went with 3.5. Then a four mile run tonight, that was OK. Something I ate was pist.

Bugs: Same for me. 6 Does, no bucks. I didn't take one because DS2 will take either as he has never had a kill before and we don't need two in the freezer. 22°F this morning. Time to break out the Spandex.

Come on Dave- you gots to get better so I can race you too!

Better at racing?

Modifying my plan. Gonna get my 18 in tomorrow. May start outside then move it to the indoor track. The trail is right outside the Y. Cut back to 5 yesterday. Will go to 6 tonight if I can keep my pace down. I always run too fast on the indoor track. I always slide into the flow of other runners. For the first time in since probably February, my weight dropped under 190. That was my goal for the marathon on Dec 7. Now Im thinking 185 is a good goal, and would be approximately my weight when I ran my PR in Vegas 2 years ago. Finally getting in the habit of better eating. DW is starting weight watchers so that helps.

What Brian said. I might go as high as 4 miles since its probably that much effort. I would only try and count that as running if I were trying to beat Shan that week though. Otherwise, its crosstraining. Speaking of crosstraining, I should probably do some today. I ran 3 days in a row and that's probably about all I'm good for at the moment.