10.1 miles this morn, longest to date, went fairly well, just ran easy and took about the same time as my first 8 milers last summer. Almost bagged it as woke up with a huge sinus headache with all the pollen in the air. Thanks for starting us off Leslie. Hope you all have a super week. mule deer buck upper right

Kelly - You live in a truly ugly place. And Farmer Jim, horrible photo, horrible. I feel sorry for you guys having to see those sights every day. Must be hard. Hub bought himself a new smoker. This is his second Sunday in a row to smoke meat. Last weekend it was two pork butts. This weekend, it was 6 racks of ribs. Let me just say, the ribs were absolutely amazing. If you're a vegetarian, you may want to skip this photo: This is the crew who came over feeding their faces. Hub's not in the pic, but you can see his new baby, the Black Bullet. The guy with the mohawk hairdo - met him for the first time today. Crazy - yes. Very. I've heard a few stories. Nice - extremely. I really enjoyed talking to him. It was such a gorgeous day today, I think we all ended up sunburned to some degree. Mine is on the back of my arms, upper back, and neck from doing yard work. I finally got smart and put on a long sleep Tshirt and a hat.

So, now we have running shoes, mountain bikes, scooters, motorcycles THEN the cars! Cindy

Looks like you have all the bases covered there, Cindy. Have fun on that scooter! Five miles this a.m. that went really, really well. Stayed around 148 for the HR. First time since I started wearing the monitor that it wasn't chirping at me the entire run. Amazing how much better I felt at the end . . . until I had to do my hill speed work, which consisted of three sets of running hard for 30 secs up this steep hill near my house, then trying like he!! to catch my breath slogging back down to the starting point, then up we go again! Holy criminy! By the third one, my legs were like, "Whaaaaaaa . . .??" Oh - and Oscar Meyer says Good Morning and Howd-ee Do Have a good day!

posted: 6/4/2008 at 11:17 PM modified: 6/4/2008 at 11:18 PMQuote Jewels - In photobucket 1. Click "Edit" above the picture you want to post 2. Once the new page is ready, click "Resize" 3. Click "Preset Sizes" 4. Click "Message Board" 5. Save or copy over photo. Whatever you want to do. 6. Click "View Album" in the sort of upper right-hand corner 7. Click the link at "IMG Code" and copy 8. Come back here and click the last square above - the one that looks like a picture of a mountain 9. Paste your IMG link in between the ones now in your post 10. Go back and erase the [IMG] at both ends of your copied link, leaving only the img's in the brackets (<>) at the front and end. Voila! Arla, I don't see the pic either. Just the square with the x in it. Your link works fine. Nice, nice pool!

Hmmmm, so like how do we put these "back-yards" together?! add a margarita machine.....

Goregeous back yard Kelly, really cool pool Arla! Nice Deck complete with smoker Leslie, those ribs look pretty tasty. Cindy, margarritta machine, now we are talking. Our backyard could be featured on the Redneck Yard of the Week. great quote Erv, need to remember that. Leslie what did your HR do on the hills and what do you figure your max is? Quicky weight session this morn, better get to work hauling fertilizer and crosstrain cleaning out a corn bin. F Jim

Joe - Funny! It's sunny here today, but so frigging windy, it's ridiculous. Weatherman said expecting gusts of 25-50 mph. Hang on to your skirts, ladies! Re the back yards - hot tub? Hot tub? It's too cold here for a pool, but I could definitely use a hot tub. I'd have to take out my of my deck to fit it in . . . Farmer Jim - My max HR is 155. When doing the steady-states on the hills (more than a walk/less than a jog), I'm suppose to be at 80-85% of my max, which I was told is 142-145. It was really hard trying to go slow enough to keep my HR down that low, even when power walking. However, my recovery time (getting myself down from, say, 150 to 140) is about 30 secs or so, so I'm pretty fit aerobically. Hopefully, it will only take a couple of weeks of training to keep my HR in the 80-85%. Yesterday when I did my regular run, I tried to keep it around 148-149. All I had to do was slow down just a little bit, and I was very surprised at how much better I felt during the run. When I go over my max, my Garmin beeps at me and flashes, "Heart rate too high." Conversely, if my HR is too low, it beeps and flashes, "Heart rate too low." It repeats it 4 times I think, gives it a rest for a few seconds, and if your HR isn't down (or up), it starts beeping/flashing again. Hey - Maybe you could wear a monitor while doing your "cross training" so as to no over exert yourself too much!! Today was alternate aerobids day. Since my bike is in the shop for an overhaul, I decided to do the advanced Tae-Bo tape my friend gave me. Let's talk tomorrow and see how my butt is feeling. Well, I guess I'd better get some actual work done. Later!