Leslie - Ten smokin' fast hill repeats, I'd hazard a guess that you're feeling better! Enjoy your vacay! Jim - good luck with the harvest, we're thinking of you! Tomorrow is the first of my "Four Big Workouts". "Big" because they're all mileages I've never run. I've got a 16, an 18, and two 20s over the next 7 - 8 weeks, and while I truly think I'm ready, I'm getting a little nervous. A new distance always seems to be extra hard for me. Whose idea was this marathon thing, anyway? Arla

Hi Kids- Carol- Great Pics of you and your Mom!! That is SOOO cool that you get to run together! BTW- I always wear my "race " shorts cause they bring me good luck!! Leslie- now you know what humidity can do to your running.It can really make a big difference.Nice going on those hills!!Hope things clear up for you before you fly out. Jim- Hoping your harvest goes well.Please keep us posted.Hope there's no more blizzard's coming your way. Arla- you'll get through it ok, I have no doubt. One thing that helped me get through those mega-mile runs is to break them up in quarters, like a football game. It seems a lot easier to manage mentally. Last of my big runs were this weekend.On Sat, ran a 10m and yesterday a 16.5m.So I ran a marathon over the weekend. All parts seem to be co-operating ok. By sheer dumb luck and procrastination, I nailed our hotel reservations for marathon weekend in Philadelphia.The less costly hotels were already booked up so I chose a pretty swanky Westin Hotel near the race for DW and I to stay in.As I told you guys, race day is our anniversary (23yrs married) so I wanted to get a nice place anyway. Looking closer and it just happens that the hotel is right ON the race course! It will be at about the 5.5m in the race but DW can walk out of the hotel and be right on the sidewalk as I go by.How cool is that? It will be good to know that she will have a nice "home base" and not have to navigate around an unfamiliar city. It's about a mile from the finish line so I will just have to find a way to hobble limp crawl walk back to the hotel after the race. Have a good one!

Hey ,anyone around? Getting very quiet around here ......

I'm here. I hope to post a run....the first one in over a week....later this afternoon.

Good luck to ya Evryday. Hope it works out well for you.

Good afternoon to everyone...... Had a super time with my mom and 2 sisters! The 4 of us stayed out of trouble for the most part and the weather cooperated fully. Drinking, eating, shopping and alot of friggin walking. Brought my running stuff but unfortunately I never even got near the bag to even unzip it. Too much to do in 4 days...... Siesta Key is full of filthy rich people who play tennis all day or raquetball, then they walk their poodles, then they go for a jog (never seen so many people in one small area jogging). Then they shower, have a drink, meet up at the local spots, shop, have a couple more drinks, socialize a bit and then do it all over the following day. Extremely friendly area though.....the people were just the nicest. Hmmmm......maybe they just wanted my money. Luckily the 4 of us shared the cost of the cottag we stayed at or I wouldn't have been able to stay there. To be honest, it wasn't worth the money. It was nice but not THAT nice. It's because the cottages sit on the bay and it is about a 5 minute walk to the gulf side. Read all the posts and everyone seems to be doing well. Cindy, hope everything starts working itself out for you. I believe the doc said, sprain.....she mentioned ligaments. Nothing serious at all more like an overuse type injury I think. She starts PT on Monday so hope to learn more then. Way to go Carol and mom..... Jewels P.S. Ya, here I go again.....after I copy and paste my pic inbetween the img thingy which part do I delete on the ends? I would love to share a handful of photos of our trip.

Cindy - You want to keep the img in between the <>. Remember to keep the "/" in front of the last img. If your link has [ ] around the imgs, you need to delete those. Evryday - Glad the run went well. Joe - Lots of us were lucky enough to have today off. Thanks to all the veterans!!! And I believe you are one, yes?? Thank you! Did my 1 hour of core/strength today, but didn't get in my 3 mile run. Had way too much to do for a day off. I have, however, received a couple of emails for trails in the Riverside area, so I will check those out more tomorrow when I have access to a printer. Took my little guys to the vet today for shots. We found an infection in the right back flank of Wilson and spent the weekend squeezing yucky stuff out and dousing him with Peroxide. The vet looked at him today and says he thinks he was shot with a pellet gun. WTF?!?!? Yeah, someone shot my cat. I swear, if I ever find out who did this . . . . He said the pellet is probably still in there, but we're gonna go after the infection first and see if his body just accepts the pellet. I am so mad. But, he's alive and he's okay, so for that I am very thankful.

Good morning! Nice sunny day so far but temps in the 20's this morning-wee bit chilly. So I'm going to go enjoy some sunshine on a leisurely run-my mood and motivation is going downhill fast so I better get off the computer (where I've been for the past hour trying to build a web page and getting absolutely no where!!!!-reason for my frustration) and I'll try to stop by later but kids also have half day of school and Jack is gone all day with stuff. Kelly