Good Morning! I’ll guess I’ll start us out with a non-running post. Thank you everyone for all your wonderful birthday wishes. Being snowed in for the day allowed me to have a very pleasant and relaxing birthday puttering around the house and eating too much. No run today – light x-training instead, taking it easy on the legs: bench dips, butterflies, dumbbell curls, incline dumbbell presses, leg lifts w/weights, face-up and face-down, 12-minute ab/core video. Teacher conference this morning, followed by doctor appointment and then dental cleaning, then off to work. Happy Monday!

Good morning! Careful on the digging out up there. I had to get up at 4:30 to take DD2 and her BF to the Airport. Somehow they landed free tickets to the Virgin Islands for Spring Break. So I had time for a short recovery run and X-training. 2 Magical, get the blood flowing, Healing Miles with Tory (10:23 pace, AHR 134). All felt good after yesterday's 23 miler and the cold is better today and the back less sore. Amazing what a long run can do for ya! 2x20 PU's, 3x20 hamcurls, 20 lunges, 3 x 30 sec front, right, left planks Have great runs! Steve

Good morning So happy you had a nice Birthday Holly...but sorry about the bad weather you all had in Ohio....wasn't quite as bad here, about 8 to 10 inches of snow. I'm hoping we are seeing the end to a very long harsh winter. Nice 8 in 8 Craneium.....that's a pretty cold morning run. I imagine the time change is slowing people posting. Glad you are feeling better Perch and wow, great job on your 23 miler!!!! I had a weird weekend of running...Sat 8.5 miles in 8 inches of fresh snow and still coming down, and super windy and cold. I think this was the hardest run I have ever had, having to pick my legs up a lot further than normal to make it through the deep snow. Finished off the weekend with a 10.6 mile run Sunday morning, and the streets were fairly clear, with a few slick spots I had to be careful on. Was planning to run further, but I was super sore from Sat's snow run. Got my new polar foot pod calibrated and when I reached my 5 mile mark, my watch said 5.04 miles which I thought was good Temps are suppose to be in the 50"s this week Can't wait to run without it taking 30 minutes to dress. Have a wonderful Monday all, Tim

Good morning, all! Holly - belated happy birthday! Bet you'll remember this one with the blizzard blowing through Ohio. 15 miles on the treadmill Saturday morning followed by a 2 hour walk with Jesse. Another 2.5 mile hike with Jesse on Sunday morning with another hour walk Sunday evening. I'm pooped! We had torrential rains and winds Saturday afternoon - just blew through and brought nice 55 degree balmy temps Saturday evening. Then the temps dropped again, so the trail was frozen Sunday morning. The alarm came much too early this morning, but I managed to get up and do 6 nice easy miles on the treadmill. Core work scheduled for noon. Good runs too all!

...Brand new Saucony Hurricane 8's this morning...aaahhh!

Who turned out the lights?? I thought I'd missed having to run in the early-morning dark, but of course today we were back into it with the clock turned ahead to 6:30. I actually had a decent run of 2.2 miles at a 10:30 pace, and think that if I continue doing easy runs with two days off between, I'll be on the road to a full recovery. And even those short runs relieve a lot of the mental tension that I've been having during my long (or at least feels long) layoff, so things are looking up. Now I've got to catch up with the weekend's posts. I spend so much time on the computer during the work week that I generally stay off of it on weekends. And here's an example of how geeky I can be for an old guy: I watched a DVD this weekend that I had heard about and requested for our library to get. It's a documentary called Helvetica. That's right: it's a movie about a font! Actually, anyone here who works in graphic arts would really enjoy it. It wasn't quite as interesting as I'd hoped, but it has had me paying more attention to signs, logos, ads, etc. Erika: Good luck on your DH's surgery. Shoulder injuries can be a bummer, but they can work miracles these days.

Life sometimes gets crazy. With basketball season entering the "Dance" section of the season, my schedule changes quickly. Add to that my brother being sick and communication back and forth being ongoing, the "norm" of life seems to have taken a back seat. For the first time in a long time, I did not run AT ALL over the weekend. Most likely the rest will have been of benefit to me anyway. However, it is a bit discouraging when you realize you missed the opportunity to run. My brother has cauterization proceedings today and the medical people will determine what and when the next phase of his treatment needs to take place. He made sure he got a good phone call in to me yesterday, "just in case" things don't go well over the next few days. He tried to make the call sound casual, but knowing him as well as I do, I knew he had a list of family and friends that he was calling. I have not posted a lot lately, but do manage to lurk on most days for the daily thread. There has been some good running going on. Good job folks. Have a good day and a great week

Eika, I just did some catching up on the dailies. Hopefully DH's proceedure goes well.