Friday is the perfect day for carbo-loading...for the weekend's " hard work" we have ahead of us...

 

 

and to drink a few calories to help us thru the long runs!!!

 

 

 

and  for those with delicate palates...the drink to start out should be the....1978 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon

 

Happy hydration and carbo intake to you all...

 

 

 

 Life is a celebration of colors...you know

 

 

Please celebrate being a runner today...even if you run one block today...you are a RUNNER!!!! and we rejoice for that!!!!

Me likes when the 'posai starts the daily! 

Did someone say, "beer"?  

Good morning!  Funny, I was thinking about Roy while running this morning, and wondering what's up with him.

3 miles, recovery pace.

Hi all, I go back to work on Monday,yuk. I did 3.5 total yesterday, some in morning and some at night, I am sore today unsure if I will run today or not.  I have to install a toilet today at #1 son's house so we will see how I feel and what the weather is doing when I get done there.  Have a nice day and good runs today and do not eat to many dougnuts,  think I will skip the doughnuts myself my waist line looks like a doughnut already.

Morning, gang!

 

Mari - wow, what a great start for this wonderful Friday morning!  The Beers have checked in, and Perch has reported a mighty nice progression run. 

 

dg - I hadn't ever considered the possibility of raw oatmeal - just dry oatmeal straight out of the box??   I've heard of mixing it with milk or water and fruit/nuts/etc and letting it site over night in the fridge, but even that doesn't sound terribly palatable to me. 

 

The only cooked cereal I ate as a child was cream of wheat.  I hated the coarse texture of oatmeal.  I don't know why I developed a taste for it a few years ago.  I prefer the steel cut variety, but I'm usually too impatient and settle for the old fashioned rolled oats which cook much faster. 

 

67 minutes on the elliptical this morning.  I may or may not be able to get away for a weight-lifting lunch - we'll see. 

 

Good runs and a good weekend to all!

 

Mary, I'm with you!  That's the only way I like oatmeal, too. 

Sue, you take ellipticalling to a new level.  (is that a word?)  And you always do a seemingly random number of minutes - or did you set out to do 67 minutes today?  I always seem to be OCD and stop at an even 5 or 10 minute multiple.  How's the foot?

Mari, what's that guy doing in the doughnut?

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Deb, did you have your surgery this week?  Not sure if I missed it, or if it's next week?

I went for a nice 4 mile trail run on the way home last night in a pretty state park.  The trails weren't too muddy except in the last mile, and it was almost 50°!   Quite a difference from the morning commute to work, at 13° and with 6" of new snow.  Hard to believe it was still the same day.

Mary- I agree with you about oatmeal!   I only like the cookies.

Ok, so I went to the gym to run on the mill since it's raining and I wussed out.  My friend convinced me to do this class that was supposed to be weights, I thought.  Turns out to be a step class (which I haven't done in forever)  I am sweating, surprisingly.

Then the school called to ask me if I could sub (substitute teaching, one of my many jobs)  so, there may be no time for a run.   wondering if an hour of step= 5 miles of running.

Good Morning!

 

{{{Dawndaugher2}}}

 

{{{EGH3}}}

 

2.1 very slow miles on dead legs today, followed by light x-training:  lateral raises, shoulder presses, dumbbell curls, reverse flies, superman lifts, stability ball crunches, and 71 push-ups (25+25+21).

 

I am slightly alarmed by some pain I am having in the back of my right thigh/lower butt.  Still minor, but this is reminiscent of the tendon injury I had the summer before last – not in exactly the same spot but close.  It was sore yesterday, but I attributed it to DOMS from the lunges, squats, and step-ups I had done on Tuesday.  The fact that it is still there today is what I find alarming, especially with a 20-miler on the schedule for tomorrow.  It would probably be best if I moved the 20-miler to Sunday, to give it another day to settle down, but I promised my DH we wouldn’t miss church again because of my running.  (sigh) Icing now.

 

Tonight I get to work on chiseling up the ugly white tile I have in the kitchen now.  Good riddance!  DD has turned out to be a great help so far with this project, carefully taking up all the staples on the stairs with a pair of pliers when DH tore the carpet up (did I say we're also putting hardwood on the stairs and landing?).  I think she will be equally handy with a chisel.  We'll be lucky if we can pull DS away from the X-Box to help. though. 

 

Our friend Scott offered, for my birthday present, to come over tomorrow and cook DH and I a fancy 4-course meal and then take our kids and his out for a while.  Is that an awesome birthday present or what?  I told him he could do that on one condition: that he sit and enjoy it with us and we all watch a family movie afterward.  He’s going though a very messy divorce right now, and I think he and his boys could use a fun and relaxing evening. 

 

After he gets done with the dishes, of course.   

 

Happy Friday!