No storm warning here ... ours come in hurricane season. The idea behind today's workout sort of escaped me as the target was to run 5 miles at 8:14 min/mile pace (after warm up and before cool down of course). That pace is slower than Tempo but faster than MP. Maybe it is a kind of introduction to the later Tempo runs which will be quicker. At any rate, I warmed up for 2 miles then eased into it. The next 5 miles ranged from 8:23 down to 8:00 with the average at 8:10, so a bit faster than target but okay. Then a 2 mile cool down. 1:18 overall time (8:29 pace). The HR during the middle 5 miles was a little higher than I'd like to see for a long race, so this pace would be too fast - but I already knew that. Bill

Tim, pay attention to your breathing when you run. Keep it so you feel almost like you aren't breathing at all. You'll feel like you can run forever (ya pretty much could!) and your aerobic fitness will soar. Bill

Good morning all, ...So, I have to modify my usual route this morning because of the road closure and I had to backtrack and run back DOWN a hill I normally only run UP on my loop. It was dark & foggy and there wasn't much visibility and I have to tell you that sometimes running down a hill is a lot harder and scarier than running up it. I never quite understood that concept until this morning. 10.43 MOH @ 9:11 pace...48F, sunny perfect spring morning....sorry Mary. Good runs to all today!

Bill, it's hard for me to explain. But even when I am running fast, I don't feel like I am breathing that hard at all. And only stopped at mile 7 to be on the safe side, but felt like I could have went on many many more miles...I was in the zone . It may also be the fact that I am all giddy and excited about running again, and looking forward to training and running a Marathon again. I think I just need pay attention to my Garmin, and just maybe stick to around 8:45 to 9:00 pace for awhile during my base building miles, with a few speedy miles / striders here and there.. Oh yeah, good news too. As you all might remember awhile back, my foot doctor told me I should NOT be running yet because I could not do the stretches and exercises he wanted me to. I have been working on those, and I can now do alll of what he wanted....painfree And I also switched back to my old Nikes running shoes, because they feel much better on my feet than my new model. Mariposai, I was singing...not necessarily Amazing Grace, but Brick House actually . But Amazing Grace would be more appropriate though TBo

Tim, What I said was to "feel almost like you aren't breathing at all". What you said was that you "don't feel like [you're] breathing that hard at all." Big difference. Bill PS: you started it. All this from me - the guy who seems to be running MP's most every day.

Good Morning! Erika – was the snow as bad as predicted? 8” would be a lot here, too. Evryday – send some of that lovely weather up Ohio way, would you? Mariposai – way to tough out those impressive intervals yesterday. I don’t think I can keep up with you any more... Tammy – congratulations on your 5-mile PR! Re breathing – I huff and puff like a freight train, no matter what my pace. No lung capacity, I guess. 20° and winds gusting to 37 mph when I got up this morning, and I just wasn’t in the mood, so I got on the TM instead. I felt strangely low-energy again, for no reason I could fathom (didn’t do anything out of the norm yesterday), so I did some random intervals and got a good workout in, I think, judging by the perspiration level, although I kept having to hop off to walk around the garage and catch my breath near the end, so my endurance was minimal. Felt like I was back to square one. meh 7 miles total

Mariposai what was Woodstock you ask? Technically an outdoor concert that got rained on in upstate New York that sort of got out of control. For a few days recreational drugs were de facto legal. There were numerous bands that played many already famous and many that would become so. The whole affair was so large and well covered by the press that it became a cultural icon. But, in reality is was sort of the last hurrah for what might be though of as the flower power movement. Another event like this never occur ed again despite many attempts to recreate it. My take has always been that once the draft ended and thus eliminated the chance that those in college could wind up in the military they (the students that propelled the movement) stopped being, well, quite so moved. They then went back to doing what most people that age do which is study, party and . . . err . . . practice reproducing. Anyway, that is my short version reading of the history. It is not one that is universally accepted. Others, likely here, have vastly different takes on the whole thing. Spareribs I had no idea you came from New York state! So how did a Yankee like you end up in Texas? hopeful4ever glad you feel better. Here in CT they are reporting a spike in flu cases. Happy to read that is clearly not what you have. breger1 who knows maybe your MP is 6:00/mile and you are running your daily runs really slow. Just saying . . . biketm ok slow down. Now you can get back to ignoring that. nonoruns uphill, downhill, flat on a TM I put it all in the same category -- yech! Peter NC another nice midweek double digit run. SueT48 see TM note above! Holly S. see most people are unaware of this hidden "feature" built into all TM by their evil creators. It somehow sucks the life out of you making each step feel like ten. You should recover in a day or two. perchcreek nice sort of recovery run. Well recovery distance . . . Nothing to report here. No running. Duh! No gym. Just stalling while I am busy trying to get myself to write code. Later on I head into NYC for a conference and post conference dinner. That means getting home late. But, fortunately, this conference is part of a series and quite interesting. Well, to those of you interested in the details of how security markets function it is interesting! Not sure about how interesting sane people would find it.