morning Roy! ahem. yesterday I was going to mention how much progress you've made, today I guess I'd better! congratulations. hope your back is ok. morning everybody. sorry to have been missing for so long. I'm way behind on reading, catching up gradually.

Good morning all Nice long run yesterday Roy Welcome back dg Holly....sorry you feel bad about your running right now. After my funky week of running last week, I have no real advice other than ....keep your chin up. I think you will be faster than you think when you get the high mileage weeks done, then taper. Just took it fairly easy over the weekend....11 easy miles Sat, and 6.8 easy Sun. Still not running well, but Sunday's run felt a lot better. I haven't been sick or anything, but maybe over training I suppose. Have a great day all Tim

Good morning Boomers. Intervals this morning, trying to burn off the ham and "cheesy potatoes" I overindulged in yesterday. A warmup mile at 9:31 followed by 40 minutes of intervals with 9:31 rest and 8:01 work and a cool-down mile at 9:27. I never got a run in yesterday so I had a little extra sproink in the old legs today. Roy - nice run with Woo--------------dy this morning!! Happy to hear your back is ok. Welcome back, dg. Holly - you are SO critical of yourself! Think about other women your age. You are probably in the best physical condition of any of them! There are women half your age who would kill to be able to run 50 miles a week. It's a sad fact that as women age, their metabolism slows down, and nothing we do can change this. You look beautiful on your picture and you can still run marathons. Ease up, Girl! You're doing great. The sun is out, the Badgers won, and work will be soooooo nice with the kids on vacation all week (I work at a high school). Good Monday runs, everyone. Jeanne

I have nothing to post as this is a rest day, but ... Holly, weather makes such a difference in our running. I can't relate to cold weather running of course. But I have to think when spring actually springs you'll get a big kick in your running and how you feel about it. It is fairly normal for marathon training to leave us with a feeling of being overwhelmed and somewhat slow - I know I do. But taper does wonders and spring fever will too. Hang in there! Bill

BTB: those pictures you posted in yesterdays thread are so beautiful. They caused this urban rat to long for the solitude of the countryside. Thanks for sharing them with us. And yes, I have been MIA. And I am sorry if I promised you that I wouldn't do that...but, sometimes I am poised to hit the reply button and i got nothing to say that hasn't already been said and I think, I don't need to post the same stuff. I am sorry you are injured. Rest up and heal up. You are an amazingly generous person and I wish you well. Holly: I would be surprised if you weren't feeling a bit "tired". I am glad you got those tests as they will serve as a marker for the upcoming years but you are training hard, you have had a hard winter, you are selling and buying a house and you have a family that you take care of...and oh yea, you work. Girl, I am tired just thinking about your life. You will rock at Boston. You are in good shape. (yes, I know this has already been said but BTB says I need to post, so I am posting) Mr. Ribs:what does good mean? How is your foot really? Mine is as cranky and cantankerous as it's owner. Battyman: you are a wonderful person to be the Easter Bunny for the kids in your neighborhood. Munch: you are an inspiration. Roy: Is it better to have a longer woody??? To everyone else that so generously shares of them selves here: I find much enjoyment in reading about your runs and your life. Thanks. I have been running some and swimming some. My foot seems to want to hurt. No matter what I do. And I am still stuck in the thinking that I must be doing something wrong to make it hurt. But, I know that sometimes PF can be chronic. I am hesitant to go back to the sports doc as he said the next step was a cortisone shot. I don't' want one of those. They don't always work. And if I am going to do that to myself I want to be 100% sure it will work. Oh well....sometimes I just get stuck in the decision making process. I might go for a run today. If I do, I promise, no matter how boring I think it is, I will post it.

Congrats Peter & wife! Wishing you many more years together!! btb, great pics in yesterday’s thread. Well, yesterday I used the 4 hr drive (roundtrip) to take my parents’ home to ice my thigh on and off. Also, had to sway my son for about an hour in church before that…definitely worked on that tender area, in a “work it out” sort of way. Anyone else feel that they never really get injured running – they get injured in life and it gets in the way of running??!? I wasn't doing my normal routine with my parents visiting, so I'm going to blame this thigh issue on that. So, today alarm went off at 6 a.m., and I was very much in the middle of a dream. Took me an hour to get my head clear and out the door. Dog and I had a lovely 6 mi run in 55 min flat. It seems like I'm running a lot of exact times lately...it's almost spooky when I stop on mileage then look at the time and see two zeros at the end. (I already alluded to the fact I get mental the week before a race...welcome to my insanity ) Weather was perfect -- no wind, mostly cloudy, but occasional sun peeking out from the clouds to shine on the ocean and beach. It was one of those days when it looks like someone turned the ocean off -- itty bittiest waves...so lake-like! Wishing everyone a great running week!

6 miles including some hills at a 7:57 pace with T...even threw in a few intervals to get the legs going... Happy Anniversary to Peter & DW !!! 23 years WOW!!!