I ain't no freakin milk cow queen.

Shan, I do so love to hear engaged people talk In my last job, I travelled extensively. Sometimes 9 weeks out of 10 and was only home on weekends. For about the last year and half, I haven't had to travel much if at all. Now my wife is asking me when my next trip is coming up In RA terms, time to HTFU and get out there. Another 6.5 for me today. I need to exercise a bit more self control on my "easy" runs. Too many runs in a row above my HR threshold. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow. Hopefully some of these injuries can get healed up and we can actually see some RUN reports.

Yeah..dont drop that "G" Bugs glad you found a good chiropractor...and got the ok to run Tough night running, but a successful one. Snow on the ground so I had to take to the streets vs the trail for my 6 miler. This conisists of my normal 3 mile neighborhood course+ 4 extra .75 mile loops. I was sooo close to just making it a 3 mile run, but kept doing that damn loop to get my 6 miles in. It was slowish, but I didnt care. It was windy and cold but I got it in. I tell ya--that pace bunny and the need to log good miles on the site is surprisingly good motivation. Shan--once you get out there a couple times in a row, it becomes habit and you'll barely be able to keep yourself off the roads. I forget that from time to time..but am in a good runing place right now. Hope it doesnt sputter out like normally happens towards the end of my marathon training. I feel this time is different. Im not content with just finishing a marathon. I have a solid time goal that I really want to obtain. Getting in the runs tomorrow and Thursday will be toughish. Going to UC/UConn game tomorrow and the Spirit of The Marathon movie Thursday...Anyone else going to see that?--one night only in a bunch of theatres--google marathon movie and it will get you there. My co-workers cousin is one of the featured marathoners.

Bugs, My g/f saw me swimming laps today with the goggles on and called me Bug Eyes. I thought of you, just because of your Bugs name, not that you have bug eyes. Did an hour of spin class, then 2 mile brick run, then 1100 yards in the pool. Then a friend I haven't seen in 10 years called, and we went out to dinner. Way cool.

Spirit of Marathon is in theatres for tomorrow only. (edit..looks like they added an encore showing for Feb 24) Have to pre-buytickets. It is a documentary following 4 (i think) people of all abilities training for the 2006 Chicago marathon. www.marathonmovie.com

I'm glad I finally gott that right. I've gone through every cow species I know of. dgbn - I've got copntrol issues, too. I always want to hammer out short runs nice and hard. Also, if I've had a few days off for rest, but not enough to lose any fitness, I'll hammer out my first workout back. It's fun to do if I'm not training for somethign specific, but can hurt my next workout or two if I'm marathon training. Bugs -glad you've been cleared to run, glad you seem to have the right shoes, glad you've gotten a sizeable run in with comfort - looks like it's all good. Murphy - what's your time goal for your next race? Did 9 on the TM this morning. I've become a total weather wuss and I can't understand why. When all is said and done, I'm getting the miles in and that's good enough for me. Hills and random program makes it a bit mroe interesting. I'm really looking forward to seeing Spririt of the Marathon tomorrow. I'm going with a few running friends, including Master Yoda who's dropped in here a time or two.

Inerita, you're funny. You were determined on that one. Murphy, I think 4:30 is a good goal. You can always adjust before the marathon. How do you non-meat eaters get enough protein? I log my food usually to keep track of calories, but doc says I need to eat more protein. I've been trying, but dam there is only like 9 grams of protein in a snickers. Seriously, how do you do it? How many grams of protein do you think you eat?