Morning All Just back from a 3 miler, started week 3 of plan today. It just said a 3 miler my intended race pace is 10:30 to finish under 5 hrs. (Edinburgh Marathon) I intended race pace today but finished up averaging 9:53 AHR 159 76% it felt good. Before xmas and getting the lurggy I was averaging about 35 miles a week this seems to be a step back but it's something that seems manageable and I need a plan to follow. Right stop waffling. Oh my garmin 201 went all fuzzy and I can't read it, maybe it's time to get a new garmin. Good Runs All Roy

"Getting the lurggy" Roy? You're going to have to explain that one to this gringo. I always hate those late night and weekend conference calls (aka B*tch sessions) PDR. I worked at one place for a while and that seemed to live off those things. 8 easy miles at 9:04 min/mile pace. I felt pretty good considering Sunday's 16.25 mile MLR. No leftover effects at all. Tomorrow's progression 12 miler ought to be fun. Bill

I know what ya mean PDR, some people just like to yap and yap like nothing better to do 6 Magical Healing Miles with Tory. Lots of deer out on this beautiful 45F morning! 9:39 pace AHR 142. Feet were slappy first 4 miles then quiet. Must be effects of LR Sunday. Have great runs!

Morning all 54 degrees when I started my run last night and it felt strange...but good, wearing shorts and a light weight long sleeve pull over. 10 mile tempo run in 1:17:45 - 7.47 pace - 153 AHR 169 MAX - last 5K in 20:58 which is one of my fastest times. Felt good to get out there and clean the cob webs out as most my runs have been easy for awhile, but getting closer to adding a speed workout 1 or 2 times a week. I was especially happy I ran this pace considering my 12 mile run the day before. Nice runs all....the weather "seems" to be better for a lot of us...but soon to change I'm sure. Kinda surprised about Bobby Knight stepping down as basketball coach at Texas Tech...I'm from Indiana so we like the guy here, where a lot of people can't stand him. But I will say, for every bad thing he did, there were 100's of good things he did for his players and community, which most went unnoticed. And ALWAYS put studies first before the game...nuff said. Have a great day all, Tim

greetings all, 4 miles for me this morning in 36:27. Cheers Mike

Morning Boomers. 5.2 miles this morning at a 9:31 pace. Icy roads forced me to do yet another run on the dreadmill. As I read about everyone running in shorts and long-sleeved tees in 45-60F weather, I feel rather left out. A couple of inches yesterday and 6-10 predicted for tonight and tomorrow. Somebody stop the madness!!!

On a sad note, when I was outside running this morning, I encountered a raccoon curled up like a cat at the foot of someone’s driveway. As I slowed to a walk and approached it, it raised its head to look at me and I saw that one of its eyes was hanging out. I felt so sad for the poor creature, which was obviously badly hurt, and thought about it later when I was home and the rain was pouring down. I called the woman who handles animal control in that city when they opened this morning, and hope that at least someone can put the poor creature out of its misery.

Holly it is so sad to hear something like that. Poor animals just doing what they do and getting hit by cars. A terrible fate. About that 405 you might want to seriously think about getting the 305 instead. It is less expensive and seems a great deal more useful for actual training as opposed to daily wear. The watch face on the 405 is smaller so if you like to display four items at once you may be out of luck. I suspect even three will be a challenge to read on the run. I am also not sure the various subtle controls on the 405 will be as easy to use on the run as the 305. I have NOT seen a real live 405 in action so I may be totally wrong here. But, looking at the specks on their web page I would not run out and buy a 405 without seriously comparing it to the 305. On a related note it seems like SportTracks is on the verge of collapsing. Version 1.3.x was pulled down from the web page. That is too bad since it works. It was replaced with version 2.0.x which does not. I left a few messages on the forum with my problems -- the most serious of which is that it will not import data from my Garmin of all things. PDR I sure hope your alpha shakeout goes better than what appears to be happening at the ST one! It was supposed to drizzle here in CT all day. Instead it was just cloudy and a balmy 41 degrees! A great for a run. My training partner showed up at 6:45am and off we went for 14.43mi@9:06. It was really, really nice to have somebody to talk to for the two plus hours!