Good Morning.... Whats new, at work early again...been here since 5:00 am. Have a one on one meeting with the owner today discussing financial predictions and "stuff", and spent hours last night and this morning getting ready. Plus, the shop is absolutely PACKED right now with wrecked vehicles, and the average repair cost on these vehicles is around $7500.00...lots of pretty serious accidents. Recovery run last night - 4 miles - 36:30 - 9:08 ave pace - IRC....feels kewl to have recovery runs again Just realized that I only need 15.8 miles to hit 100 for the month....kewl, coming back from my injuries. But looking forward to running 200 miles or more a month, to get 2000 miles again this year. Have a Greta Day Everyone. TimBo

Good morning, everyone! So busy at work haven't had time to stop by here, sorry. 11 miles yesterday and 3 recovery miles today. I love the GPS import function, although PDR was having a hard time making it work this morning. It keeps getting stuck in the middle of the upload.

Still running indoors. Started with some fizzy lifting, then did 11 while watching The Fight Club. That was a disturbing movie. I'm going for the Brad Pitt look. (I added the sideburns, now I need the tinted shades and the red velvet jacket).

Tim- I think there are lots of financial discussions happening across the country. I know that my school district will be affected by the economy, Good to see you making recovery runs again, and nice pace too. 6 easy miles for me this morning. I agree with 40º feeling better to run in.

I still have those blue stripes on my work computer, although not at home. And when I tried to upload my GPS data, like PDR, I kept getting an error message in the middle. Peter - We all know that there are good running days and bad running days, sometimes for no reason we can fathom. Lately I’ve had several low-energy runs that have been slightly demoralizing at this stage in my training, but today, well, Today Was A Good Day. 11.10 miles today, including 8 x 1-mile repeats @ BQMP with 2 minute recoveries (Timbo's suggestion). Repeats were thus (goal pace 8:47): 8:44 8:33 8:37 8:41 8:40 8:41 8:35 8:40 I know, I know, you’re prolly thinking, how hard could it be, with 2 minutes of recovery in between each repeat, but when I tried this a week and a half ago I could BARELY do 7 repeats, and felt like I was going to DIE on nearly all of them. Today they were still challenging, but do-able, and the more I did the faster I got. I kept having to slow myself down. I think it was just the warmer temps (45°!) lending me sproink today, but whatever it was, I’ll take it. A good day. Oh, and btw, my hearing tested perfectly normal. They REALLY ARE mumbling....

Holly, Two minutes recovery between mile repeats is very appropriate. Especially for so many repeats. 8 is a whole bunch of 'em! And the recovery proved to be perfect in that you could complete the full set and you got faster as you went along. Very.Well.Done. Bill

Peter thanks... LOL (I forwarded that to Tory's Dog Park friends Nice running.. Tim keep it up you're progressing well! Holly.. that is a good way of measuring progress. It is funny how the more you run the repeats the faster or easier they get. Same thing happens to me when I run loops for my MP runs, each one gets better. If it gets worse, time to stop.

Perch, I don't know how you run so fast on steep hills, and for 13 miles, too! I run hills all the time, but I can't do them fast, and usually have to walk on the steeper parts. After all these years of hills you'd think I'd be good at them.

wildchild The steep parts were not fast at all but were definitely hard. So my paces probably ranged from 12 min/mi up the steep parts to 6's min/mi on the steep downhills. I just try to keep an even effort with short periods of high effort on parts of the uphills. Some hills I just picture that I'm climbing the steps to the Philly Art Museum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvrdEKLEw0 4 Magical healing Miles with Tory in 37:15 (9:19 pace, AHR 141 with 5 x 20 sec strides) then X-Training

Mary - did Brinkley have his skates on this morning? Is it still dark when you run? How do you watch your footing?

Nope, I don't have any doggie skates .... maybe I should get him some of those doggie boots tough! Yes, it is still very dark in the morning, so my headlamp helps to light my way! Good job getting outside today JLynne!