Good moring everyone. Hope you have a nice run Tall....and everyone running - racing - and what ever this Sunday brings you. Boy, I have been soooo busy at work and with "stuff", that I am behind on posting and reading here....but I think things will ease up a bit now...I hope. Had a super good workout yesterday....a brick. I cycled 65 miles with our local club, followed by a 8 mile run. I had planned on a very easy paced run...maybe 10 or 11 min pace, but felt good and ended up with a little over 8 min pace....I thought cool. Those bricks are called that for a reason because when you start running right after cycling, the legs feel heavy for a mile or so, then feel better...at least you hope so. Well, off on a run on a beautful sunny morning here in Indiana....prob 7 or 8 miles, or what ever I feel like once I get out there. Have a nice day all, I will check in later today. Tim

good morning enjoy your 38K Tall. your run, Tim, your rest day, Teresa. Eliz, great determination there! I think I've increased too fast. last night I did about 20 minutes of callanetics & some hamstring curls with the stab. ball for the eccentric contractions. this morning just side lifts (stab. ball again) and a 40 min. walk with Sadie. We ended up running part of it, which made it my first outside hilly run & her first anything run in 7 months. she said thank you . a bit chilly at 37F but shiny sunny sp very nice. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Racers!!!!!!!!!!!

......you're right tall//......it can ALWAYS BE WORSE... =============== ........50min at track........ Tested My Theory of ''Knees Lead Feet''-- and like all Good Theories, it held up right til I hit the Track,,,,,knee hurt,,,moved to padded infield,,,, found out I needed to focus on the Foot hitting the Track, and how I pushed off after the footstrike,,,, also, tensing quads seems to relax hammy and take some impact off knee...... just think of me as a Science Experiment for Runners Hitting Their Sixties.... ......You're Welcome... ..hopefully adding 2nd Day this week......... ................good running guys......................off to my 2nd Church.......

Good Morning Friends!! no run today - back feels ok after doing 2 5minute running intervals on the treadmill yesterday -- tried 5 min walking followed by 5 minute running at 10min/mile pace..........felt a little twingy in the sciatic nerve area but not bad..........did follow the rest of my workout yesterday with some PT exercises, ice and motrin and so far so good - just a little achy but no worse than i've been!! today - another rainy day but that's ok -- heading out to church, then a followup retreat reunion/meeting then off to work for a competency day 3-11p...........will try to sneak over and see my friend's new baby again if time allows!! have a glorious Sunday!!

Rest day for me, will go for a walk later. Does anyone know how to post here garmin elevation profile? I keep thinking of the racers on and off all morning long. I hope I can concentrate during church.

Good luck to all the Eugene marathon, HM and 5K runners on the course today. As I post the marathoners should be somewhere midcourse: TammyinGP, Soundrunner, Econo, Breger1, enkephalin, and hally. It seems like half the board is there today. charleygross nice long run. Congratulations on getting it done. dg. I am not sure what the weed puller is called. I was at Home Depot and saw it in their garden center. It was pretty cheap. Kind of a long metal rod with some mechanical gizmo at the base to get down to the root and then unhook the plant once you have pulled it up. Also nice workout and runs this morning. btb glad to see you and Amy are managing to stay in touch. I am sure it helps brighten both your lives. munchkn883 glad to hear you got in 10 yesterday and felt good to boot! lyndenrunner congratulations on the race. First of the year is often hard to pace. I am busy trying to talk a friend of mine into not running a HM as her very first ever race. I fear she is going to go out way too fast and spend several miserable miles getting to the finish. She is not unique but whenever I tell inexperienced racers that it is really hard to avoid going out too fast even for experienced racers and they just do not believe me! evanflein congratulations on your 5K. For a race this close to a marathon you did really well! Mariposai sounds like a really pretty course. Trail races are often brutally hard it is a good thing the courses are also typically stunning beautiful! Congratulations on your race. TomS hope the move went or is going well. Spareribs you and my DW have the exact same view of the post-race discussion of that poor filly. A bit of my history - I was at the track to watch the match race in which turned out to be Ruffian's last. It was so sad. At least she is honored as the only horse ever to be buried in the Belmont race track's infield. Tall 38K wow! biketm you and all the local triathletes seem to be getting in gear with the weather picking up. Nice brick. rochrunner I know the feeling - run slow or not at all. All I can say is that when I am on the DL I am so jealous of people that can run at any speed. Enjoy what you can do. My goal today was 8 miles with my DW. She was have knee problems about 6 miles into the run and decided to walk the last mile home. She says there is no pain while walking. I think she needs new sneakers. Her current pair is really worn. Time for me to pester her some more to get new ones. It is a fine balance between getting her to actually instigate buying some and not having her blow up and me for pestering her! Anyway, I finished up alone and added a bit to the run for a total of 9.46 miles. That put me a bit less than 5 miles from reclaiming my membership in the 40/40 thread! I am pretty psyched about being able to get back in there and to putting some more distance between me and the pace bunny. Good runs all.

Twocat, you were actually at Belmont that day? I saw the race on TV and was very upset. Thanks. Roch, good for you. There's a start. (BTW, when I wrote the word "curtailed" the other day I had the exact same thought, about the dog watches. I can't even read the word any more without thinking of that.) Hi dg! The Saint did very well today in her half, despite all sorts of problems she was having the last few days with her back, etc., but when I saw her roaring down the final straightaway it just gave me such a lift. Anyway, I'll let her tell her own story, but wanted to let you know it all worked out okay. I got a soft-surface ten-miler in this morning, my first at that distance since the injury. Very slow, but that was the idea. We are both feeling very self-satisfied right now. Spareribs