<tmi>'srlopez' stands for Stevie Ray Lopez. It's the only name I've utilized in forums, except for Runners World, where I actually registered as 'Stevie Ray Lopez'. I never ever ever utilized puppetry or fake IDs in other message boards. (clubs in Lubbock Texas, circa 1984, sure) I get 'senor' and 'senior' a lot. The first is technically accurate as I am a maaaan, baybee, and I am half Hispanic (and half Hawai'ian). The second one is funny when people meet me. I'm not senior. Yet. AARP says I have 8 more years. Del's Sun City says I have 13. Anyway, it is a joke nickname given to me by my grad students in 1991 to make fun of my atrocious gee-tar playing. Side note, on the Maniacs' race calendar, I was "McLovin" for 2008. I switched back to SRL yesterday. I switched to McLovin after dramatically announcing December 2007 that I was retiring for awhile because I thought I was sicker than I actually was. So I had to return as someone else and I went with Fogle's fake ID name from Superbad specifically because it was a fake ID name.</tmi>

I was still mad at myself for not running in the cold yesterday, so I decided to go for at least 8 miles. The weather was good - overcast, 27 degrees, and fairly calm. I felt great, so I kept going until I got to 9.2 miles! 11:41 pace, due to treading carefully over leftover snow on the sidewalks. I'm happy with it. Ahead of the 1500-mile pace bunny for the time being, lol.

BTW, how you did you get your 3 years total miles from the log?

I went to Reports; then New Search; then for Date Range I put in Custom Range, 1/1/2005 - 12/31/2008; and for Group Result By, I put Year. Then hit Search.

dg, that is a very cool story about your friend and the baby stroller. I think it's awesome that she still babysits for you while you go to races. I'm a former competitive swimmer too – did it all the way through college before discovering that I would have been a better college runner. Oh well! Slo, I will have to give the fish oil a try and see if that helps with the knees. I have a tendency to start with the glucosamine/chondritin and then give it up because it is so expensive. The only thing I don't like about fish oil is that I have a tendency to burp it up that fish oil taste for at least an hour afterwards. SR, sending healing vibes to poor Tobias. I hope you figured out a way to keep him relatively calm while he heals. I have always thought the SR stood for Senor, at least until I realized that your name is Stevie Ray. Holly, good luck with that toe. I hope it holds up on your long run. As far as the quote thing goes, doesn't it also work to just use the quote html tags? I think that's what I've been doing. I wound up having to run on the treadmill this afternoon because my dh wanted to surf. It was raining and 39 degrees so I really did not mind too much. I dislike doing fast running on the TM, though, but forced myself to do three half miles at 8.7, 8.8 and 8.9 - I think those speeds are somewhere in the 6:40 to 6:50 range. Ran these in the middle of 6 miles on the TM.

I got 5.3 miles on the treadmill today but I can tell I'm really getting burned out on the belt to nowhere thing. Still, better than venturing out in the -30 anymore than I have to. DS2 has basketball practice at 4, so I'm bundling all my errands to make just one trip. I hate having the car out in these temps even though it seems to do ok in it. Glad to see Tobias is home and recuperating. Good luck keeping him quiet as he starts to feel better. I sure hope he regains all his hind leg function.... Interesting thing on the log... I keep printouts of my logs from Cool running and the graph from RA, and I had on my printout 1781 for 2007... but the log here says 1910... Hmmm,

I took today off work . . . no sense going in for just one day when over half the office was already out, right?

I'm likin' the way your thinkin'. I burp up the fish oil too. 6 easy miles this late afternoon 10:30 pace 55F. Beautiful.

Agreed, all: Today felt like Monday. I had to move my tablesaw (an "old iron" Powermatic 66- all 500# of it) to my new shop space. Not fun, and COLD to boot (everything I handled this morning had been in my old unheated shop). So when I got a chance to get sweaty on the treadmill, it was a relief. 5.3 miles in 41-42 minutes. I, like Erika, am getting a little tired of the 'mill. But I can't really imagine going out for a run when it's below 20 F, and dark, out. Especially after having worked all day in the cold. no fun. (Okay, I'm done complaining) Have a good weekend, everyody!!! Walt

After my 13 magical miles this morning I went out with my DH for a short Xcountry ski adventure. See what I saw on my short ski adventure this afternoon? They were 6, but one flew away as one was getting ready to take the picture. See this bench...I love running to the river in the summer time, sitting in this bench to delight in beauty of nature and run back home.

Mariposai....I can feel the beauty you describe all the way across the internet. Thank you.