You too, MrI! Shan, The race is Jan 10. 4 full weeks of training away. Bugs: How's the snow? Did you guys get much at all? My parents said it was bitterly cold there (-5 yesterday afternoon), hope you were able to get something in! I talked to one of the coaches on my old CC team in high school, and he's running the Northfield Indoor Marathon at St Olaf on Jan 10. That looks like a crazy, crazy, crazy race. I don't even want to think about how many laps 26.2 is on an indoor track.

Hey P2R - where has he been?? And look at our lurkers!!! J - wow it's soo close!! I know some of the Swamps (JK def. and Trent for some) did one - in a prison. Dave - so what do you have on tap for this week??? So, is a weight bench a good christmas gift for DH?? Or is that th eequivalent of buying a woman a gym membership she didn't ask for??

That doesn't count all the lurkers who don't post their logs (Peach, cough, cough). I'd be very happy with another 30 this week (something like 5, 5, 7, 4, 12 with 2 rest days). Today is cross training. I'm a little beat up after 4 days straight.

True - and Cash! Ohh that would be great! But you are smart to take a break - no overdoing it.

oh dave! this might make me post higher mileage weeks...... that might be a good thing. I'm training for a full marathon on only 30 miles a week.... that's my thing... how much can I do on bare minimum miles.... I need to up my game and very soon. 7 miles planned today at noon.

Hey, where am I on the log? Oh, yeah, I didnt run last week. I really want to get some miles in. Just a couple more days of heavy duty working, then I wont have any stuff left to ship. Then I get to run. Forgot to mention that the DW got me a Garmin 305 for Christmas--she gave it to me early for the marathon. It was nice to have. The mile markers were once again off.

Murph, make sure you download and install Sporttracks (free download). Much better than the Garmin S/W. Does treadmill count as crosstraining? I opted for a recovery run rather than the elliptical today. Probably just to spite Shan.

Jhallum, the race is on the 11th... wouldn't want you to miss it, ya know. (The half is on the 10th... but I thought you were doing the full?) Hey, -5F isn't bitterly cold! That's really not bad at all... I ran 13 miles in -5 to -7 temps yesterday. But my legs were starting to get stiff so I quit there, drove home and hopped on the treadmill for the last 5.22 miles for 18.22 total. Glad that's over. This is my peak week with the 10/20 Saturday/Sunday combination. Hard to believe I did three of those in August before the Equinox. Damn was I in good shape then! I'm dragging myself thru these runs just to get to taper. Today will be cross training, hoping to do some wts and pool running while DS2 is at Basketball practice. So glad Mr. Inertia starts our threads on Monday. I really appreciate that! But I hope you can post more often during the week and keep an eye on the ShanHas/dgb2n contest. Bugs, the mere mention of metatarsal soreness makes me cringe. Mine are doing pretty good, finding the metatarsal pads I'm using are helping a lot. I do still ice it after long runs though. Last night it felt "hot" and used the ice pack on it. This morning it feels pretty good. In fact, here's something of an update. Almost all summer I would get out of bed in the morning and sort of cringe thru the first few steps, never really knowing how it would feel and sometimes it would hurt quite a bit. Other times, not so much. Didn't seem to matter how much I'd run the day before, sometimes it hurts worse after a rest day. But recently, I get out of bed expecting some pain or discomfort, and it's like... nothing. Sort of takes me by surprise sometimes, but in general it's a very good "nothing" to have!