Good idea Evrday- I just posted over on Ilene's thread.My first full marathon is this Sunday.I think that Arla steps up to the plate in Jan, I could be wrong.

evryday - good idea! I'll try to pop over there. Carol - tempo + hills + happy knee + cool fall weather = a good thing! You're gonna be montrously faster with workouts like that! Leslie - hope the cats figure it out so the fighting can stop. How long have they all been together? Joe - enjoying your taper? Yeah, my marathon is Jan 11...sort of a ways yet, still have some big workouts ahead of me. Was going to go to Pasadena for a half marathon, part of the City of Pasadena Inaugural Marathon - but it got cancelled because of the fires (air quality and road closures)!! Bummer! I feel bad for anyone that was running a first half or full marathon. Instead I made the trip to the coast (Morro Bay) and was rewarded with clear, breezy and warmish conditions right on the beach (same weather pattern that's fanning the flames further south) - boy, running in sand is tough, even the wet, packed stuff! Add to that up and down the cliff where it met the water here and there, and it was sort of a trail running experience. Good workout, though. Back to work. Arla

Turkey Shoot - 16,690 turkeys blown away. My trigger finger started cramping up! http://www.southbank-design.co.uk/turkeyshoot/index.htm

Sounds like everyone is surviving the fires, the plane cancellations, the pet-sitting, the hill runs and much more. What a busy group. Great going to all that are getting their runs in when they can. Just 2-3 weeks of school left and I'm off til Jan. 12th. Can't wait. Registration started for Spring already and I've already signed up for 3 more classes. Woohoo! The weather is very, very chilly here. The morning is going to be down right cold. Will most likely get a run in before class tomorrow night so I don't have to run in the cold a.m. Yes, I am a wimp! Thanksgiving at my house as well. I'm looking forward to it. My sister wants to run a 10k Turkey Run on Thanksgiving morning but.....I have school til freaking 8:45 Wed. night and I have 16 people coming over Thursday early afternoon so there's no way I can do it. I just have too much to do. Goodnight ya"ll.......Jewels

Good morning everyone.... It is freezing here in Florida...... 41*/67%, brrrrr. Should make for a nice run around 2:30 when I get out of work. I'm thinking it will probably get up to maybe 63ish by then. Evryday, did you say record high for OK? What's the forecast? Have a great day......Jewels MTA: Hands were so cold my typing was horribly bad Evryday, that's still some pretty warm weather for ya this time of year. The weekend here will be back to around 70ish. I can deal with that...... Thanks for poppin' in Jim. Work comes before runs. Hope the weather holds up so you can get er done and get a wee bit of relaxing/running in. This running break for you is probably good for your achilles tendonitis anyway so......

Non-runs til we get done with harvest or have weather delays. We got 21 semi loads out yesterday, weather coming in again tonite but hopefully it will be a dud. Gotta go put a new strap to hold on a fuel tank on my white truck before it falls off. Cheers

Hi All- Evryday- Thanks for the compliments. My goal is a conservative 4:15 for the race.I have done a 21.2m training run faster than that (per mile pace) so I'm hoping to have a little surge at the end.I will be with the pace group though until then if all goes well. I don't think that I will try to surge until very late, so I don't bonk out! ps- your Cowboys are starting to scare me again.The biggest fear I have is that they do to us what we did to them in the playoffs last year Jim- 21 semi's eh? That's a lot of wheat? Corn? Keep up the good work and you'll have some down time soon. Say Hi to Lynda for us, I'm sure she'd busting hump as well! Arla- nice beach run! I bet it's beautiful there.I don't mind the sand so much as the slant of the beach. If it's level I can deal with it better. I'm planning on doing more of that soon, as well as trails. All this road running is hard on my parts! Good going with the marathon training,you're going to do great! Leslie- hope the cat's have worked things out at your place. Bummer about your "problem" while running.Do you drink coffee?That works for me real well. BTW, I'm sure Evryday would just love the story the includes the helmet light incident Carol- glad the fall weather is suiting you well.Hope the Sat morn thing works out for you.That sounds like fun. Is your pet sitting business holding up well? Ok Jewels- no more complaining about the cold.63* sounds pretty good to me.Maybe a nice run before all that Turkey Day feasting would make ya feel good! Only 24* with a 15mph wind this morning during my 6.2 miler.Taper week has been Very good for my parts! The forecast is looking cold for the race,probably about 25* at the start.Also, there's a storm forecast for that night,just hoping it doesn't come early!Oh well ,what's that saying-"there's no bad weather,just bad clothes" Have a good one kids!! MTA- Hi Cindy- posting at the same time. I was afraid that you went "up there" already and we won't hear from you till spring! Easy on that DHub of yours and his "honeydo" list !Good luck with DIL and her baby!