Thanks for starting us Cindy. I must say that Ed can give us kids some serious inspiration for our future running plans.

Where are you guys seeing Arla's AR50 time?

In the good news department, as well as the inspiration department, we found out today that my 49 year old kid sister, single Mom with three kids, just passed the bar exam. Last year she graduated Temple Law School. Good stuff.

Thanks for getting us started, Cindy.

Joe - Congrats to your sister!  Here's the link to Arla's finishing time.  Plug in her name or bib number (355) and it'll come up.

Stumpy - Hopefully, getting back into yoga and building the LRs at a slower rate will help your knee.

Rest day for me.  First full day of work since we bottomed out, and I'm really drained mentally.  I met with my counselor today and will be meeting with her once a week for awhile.  It helps.  Still working on taking things one day at a time, although it's really hard.  My brain jumps 6, 10 steps ahead when we haven't even got through Step 1.  I know all this doesn't make sense, but that's all I can say.  Just know your continued support means a lot to me.

Have a good evening ~

Leslie - . . .  and yes, I have your decal.  

 

OK, so AR50, strangely, there's not much to say, the short story is that I just took it easy and it simply turned out better than I expected. Posting a RR on the main board.

(1) You are a goddess, and

(2) I knew you'd do great!  I just knew it!

So when's the next 50-miler????

Just love that “just typed for 25 mins and poof it’s gone “  feeling.  Jeesh  , dam computers. Can’t trust ‘em I tell ya.

Jim- Nice going on your mileage PB! 14.5 spot, and your biggest week ever , very impressive. Hope your caught up feeling lasts a while.

Arla- beating feet to your RR following this. I knew you would kick some major behind this time. Goddess indeed, that’s a whole lot of badassery  points right there.

Leslie-Once again you have shown your toughness. Whatever you’re dealing with, you seem to be motoring through it like your long runs. Keep it up.

Cindy- slipped in a casual 20miler and looking at a 10 tomorrow? Are you training with the number 50 in your head too?

Carol- any tiredness/ soreness?  So good that your friend was able to go with you. Tri’s are a whole level above just running, and you’re improving very well.

Stumpy- rest up that knee, both sides. Now that you’re post race, a bit of down time might be  good for the parts, eh? I don’t want to be too personal, but what is yooga? Some new-fangled exercise routine ?

Hi OM, and Ev, and anyone else in the cloud…..

Thanks for the well wishes for my sister , my other 5 siblings and I are very proud of her. Can’t hurt to have a lawyer (and an honest one at that) in the family either  .

Another real kick butt confidence building long run for me tonight. 18.1m x  8:40 ap with the middle 12 over my hilly route. 1600 ft elevation change is the best  I have to work with. Traditionally, my fall marathons have been much much better than spring. Real life time pressures caused me to drop my mileage and I feel faster all the time. Three weeks to show time (or should I say Joe time) and I’m feeling fine.

Nothing "casual" abt me doing 20 - yet!  bit stiffish, not too bad, this am. No, not working on a 50 exactly....close, if I'm going to try to do my miles on my birthday in Sept. I haven't decided yet....I do have poss 3-4 marathons (just completion!!)  plus a 24 mi. crew segment of TRR that I'd love to do with everybody. & my goals are just to be able to finish well - & under cutoff times so, nothing too serious.

Joe - did you say "honest" & "lawyer" in the same sentence!?!?  oh yeah, you said you grew her!   & yeah, what ^^they^^ said - damnfast!! = looking fwd to some exciting news from the Eastern coast!

Arla - active recovery - as long as its reasonable - isn't a bad thing..it can actually speed up the recovery time!  ...that's why they call that really slow pace (mine) a "recovery run."    Now, I'm not an ultra-runner, & I didn't play one on TV! But I have stayed @ a Holiday Inn Express ....and I have a few ultra friends whom I see during the Summer..many of whom don't seem to sit around - ever! but they do verrry easy jogs on "rest days"  distance is relative to the runner, training, body stress involved. .. & I'll bet you could find/chat with Kelly on fb! Not to mention all the folks on the trailrunners forum - some of whom I believe do a number of those insanely long trail races!

Kevin - I second Arla's op. on your knee. Deep tissue massage, MAT therapy, PT excercises & soon! ~ before you exacerbate other potential issues!

Leslie - sometimes, just keeping your oars in the water is the best thing that you can do. {{Hugs}}

So, Carol....what's next?  Hope the severe weather missed you yesterday!

 but am itching to run.

Geesh.

Cindy- miles on your birthday means one for every year? That's only what, 30 or so?

"The Event "  for me is the NJ Marathon on 5/1. It will be my third time on a course that has not been kind to me. It's not the course that's tough, I just had a couple of bad runs there. The first was 3 years ago and my first spring marathon. I managed a 3 min pr from the previous fall but I really struggled at the end. Two years ago I started ok and thought I had trained well but wilted at the half way point. It was, at the time, a two 13.1m looped course. I was at the halfway (start/finish) and really thought about quiting. I couldn't and ended up finishing the second half better than the first. Another 2 min pr but felt like a dissapointment.

This year the course has been changed. No more 2 loops. The half marathoners and us will go around town a bit (there used to be 23 turns on each loop 46 turns for the full) After the halfers break off, the full goes straight down the ocean rd then back which is much more appealing.

So my real goal is to finish a spring marathon strong. I felt good leading up to the others there, so I'm a bit apprehensive. I need to conquer this one. It's my nemisis. It has mocked me. It's time for me to b%#tchslap it upside it's evil little head.

Think I'm motivated enough?

Sheesh! ~ & here I was thinking youse guys were gonna tell me I'm crazy, slap me upside the back of the head (reset button), & tell me to seriously rethink my game plan! ...Ida listened to ya!  Really!!

Joe - every year you've been stronger & faster..period! ...you've worked pretty hard for it too!   Not sure what you want out of this one...oh yeah, you did say b!^@%slap it!!    I'm pretty sure that'll happen ~ as long as the grey matter doesn't get in your way     I'll be thinking aboutcha on 5/1...you should be just about done, well, at least half way, when we start in Ft Collins, 6:15am MST....Doug & I and some friends are running down the Poudre River @ sunrise. point to point. no loops. very little tfc.  slight downhill.  one teensy "hill" @ mile 19...heh! kinda the backside of our neighborhood kinda "hill"   Anywho!  so, since you won't come out here...., consider this a "buddy run!" (except that I'm not as strong of a runner as you!)

Anybody else??  May 1st Buddy Run?....5K+ (or pool) where-ever you are? 

My 10 became 5 reeeeal easy yesterday...just didn't give myself enough time in the morning - appts causing time bookends & being a bit creaky, I decided that caution/rest might be the wiser move...funny how some of these "creaks" disappear a cpl miles in & resurface about the time I've been sitting too long, or first thing in the morning for a little bit?!  Had a moment to stop by the running goodie store whilst waiting on one of DD's appts...I made it out of there w/o taking anything from the clearance rack!! However, did pick up a much needed new sports bra & another Nathan vest....the men's vest I have works great, until it's empty. then it just rides wrong...guess I'm too short through the torso for a decent fit...but hey! the new women's vest has some very kewl lime green trim! & now Doug has a light vest too now, what to do with the Camelback - course, it holds twice as much water - for those reeeally long hikes!....or bike rides....or....