Funny thing, as I was running across a street during a break in traffic, a woman who was pulling out from a side street, heading in the other direction, yelled out her window, “GET OUTTA THE DAMN STREET!” I was so startled by it that I laughed out loud. I was not anywhere near being in her way, so I have no idea where her annoyance came from.

Holly, everyone's a critic. You reacted appropriately by laughing. I have found it is best to ignore critics or laugh at them. Dark Horse

7 loops of 1.1 miles in local park that was the childhood home of Harvey Firestone (tire inventor). House is long gone & the 60 acres were donated by the family many years ago. I alternated between marathon pace (9:20) & tempo pace of 8:40 then a cool down loop for 7.7 miles, like Holly but nobody yelled at me. Mary best wishes Twocat & Tim I'm happy to see your great attitude during this rehab period

Free breakfast today at my favorite lunch counter in downtown Newburyport, because I am a veteran. I had no idea it was free till afterward--then I wished I'd gotten the steak tips instead of two eggs over easy. Later this morning, 3 miles on the treadmill at 8:59 mile pace. Also 100 pushups, 100 situps, 30 arm curls, 30 lat pulldowns, 50 wrist curls. My two Veterans Day speeches yesterday went well. They had packed auditoriums at the middle school in the morning and the high school in the afternoon. Dark Mare and I went out last night to celebrate the end of a big day, and I had perhaps the best lobster of my whole life--tender and sweet. I said, "You know, if I were the president or the pope, I couldn't get a better lobster than this." Because you never know how good a lobster is till you eat it. The local paper sent a photographer to my high school talk, and this morning's paper had the complete text of my speech and a big photo of me. I guess they had space to fill. Later this morning I got a phone call from a newspaper in another town in eastern Mass. They saw my speech and were asking permission to reprint it in their paper. That was nice. Hoping to run a few miles cross-country with Dark Colt this afternoon. But first, Dark Mare and I are going out for a free dinner at a nice restaurant downtown. Every year they put on a free dinner for local veterans. Very generous of them. All you have to do is tip the waitress. Dark Horse

Just went out again and did my remaining 1.5 mi that was on the list. The Body Glide held up on the hot spot on my foot! Mr Nono is accusing me of using the blister-to-be as an excuse for a lunchtime (a.k.a warmer) run. I think 1.5 is only a run-ette, so he's way out of line.

Dark Horse, thank you for your service. And that's great that you spoke at those assemblies. Enjoy the Dinner tonight. Bill

Holly - eat the whole candy bar! We're just putting on our "winter layer of fat." It's not like you don't burn off at least 1,000 extra calories a day with all the exercising you do. Life is short - eat dessert first!

But you see, I never lost the "winter layer of fat" that I picked up LAST year! I need to lose that first, and then I can build it up again. And, unfortunately, I'm likely only burning about 80-85 calories/mile, and when you add that to my already slow, middle-aged woman's metabolism, it just doesn't allow for as much eating as you'd think....

Happy Veteran's Day to all!! I ran a race today to honor all veterans -- the run was on 11/11 at 11:11am and was an 11k!! will post a short race report since i've snuck my last few in the dailies!! Holly -- that woman yelling at you reminded me of a guy in a car we ran past -- many of the roads were closed or partially closed to let some traffic through -- at one point this guy was leaning on his horn and looked so angry -- 3 of us were running by him and i said GOOD MORNING -- the guy next to me said something i don't remember and the poor guy in the car just screamed "i have to get to a doctor's appt" -- felt bad and yelled back "SORRY" then to my co-runners --does he think that's going to get him there any faster......really tho -- the offices in the area should have closed for the morning or at least made sure they warned there patients about the race - not like it's the first time they've had it.

Happy Veterans Day, DH. Veterans were honored at the Patriots game on Sunday and got a well deserved welcome. I got a lump in my throat when 4 Blackhawk helicopters did a fly-over after the National Anthem. Very electric! What newspaper covered your talks? So we can check it out on line. Fran