Hi y'all. I want to run later but don't know if that's going to happen. Manager said he foresees letting me out early though so that's a plus. It is a nice site, I had signed up months ago to look at the log , tried it and forgot about it. So many sites, so little time.

Hey - one more thing - maybe off topic - if you are near Salem MA, my running club is hosting our first ever Frosty 4 Miler on New Year's Day morning. Come and run it - a great way to start the year. Later John (maybe I need a sig line...)

welcome John, hardly anything is off topic here. Certainly not racing Anybody looked around for an "intrepid racer" type group or does someone want to start one? jjj

I just sent the following comment to the site administrators: Nice site. I am moving here from the old coolrunning.com Boomers & Beyond group, and encouraging others to do the same. Two items of constructive criticism: 1. When you create a thread or a post, the window is too small vertically. This forces you to scroll up and down quite a bit if you want to review or edit what you wrote before posting. 2. When you are reading the posts and get to the bottom of the page, there should be a link back up to the list of discussion threads, as there is at the top of the page. As it is now, you have to scroll back up to the top of the page, then click on the link. You might argue, "You could just hit the BACK button." Yes, but suppose you are reading a thread which has more than one page? Hitting the BACK button will get you back to the previous page of the thread, not up to the list of discussion threads which is where you want to go. I think both of these are easy fixes. Thanks for listening. Dark Horse

Hey, I figured out DaveinAA's new handle! It refers to Quentin Cassidy, the protagonist of John L. Parker's famous running novel, Once a Runner.

HA! I just assumed it was one of those high-falutin' Latin references that flew right over my head again. (No, DH. Resist the urge to respond in Latin.)

oh dear, PF & AT strikes again... I was just thinking that I should look up "Cassadamius" today, but Dark Horse did my work for me! Rest day for me.

Well, I'm in (I think). No running to report today, but it's really getting warm and sunny outside (38F). Today's high is supposed to be tomorrow's low, so it looks good for some sort of early AM run. Then it's off to complete the purchase of DS's new car. By the way Dave, I think it was Quintus (not Quentus). Quintus is an old Roman name usually given to a fifth son. This looks more like the old place than either Active or Kick!

ya dang rebels. there's a perfectly good daily thread over in the running community... 14.5 ez 8:21 pace. ha, what a lie. it was a slog. two more slogs left in the last slogly torture week. why do we do this wa5yom? it was raining, hardly anyone out. just a few scantily dressed college-aged runners. happens every xmas break, those fast athletes from michigan visit their family in tucson and dress like it's the middle of summer while they burn up the running routes in tucson. i'm envious, but it is inspiring. edited: is it just my crazed brain, or is everyone sick? sick kid, sick wife, half of my colleagues at work are sick. yup, this would not be a good time to get sick. washing my hands 5 times a day, or more, disinfecting my keyboard, phone, etc. gargling three times a day. nope, this would not be a good time to get sick.