Good Morning Everyone, Recovery run for me today after 10 miler yesterday. I did 6 miles easy in 66:30 (11:05/mile). Thanks for the advice Ribs about running the day after a long run. My legs feel alot better today than they did when I took off the day after a long run. Have a great day All. Bruce

Trying to be philosophical about my carpy cut-back week. The good news: (1) I ran 15 miles - badly, but "cut back" used to be "pushing it" in terms of MPW; (2) the school concerts went well; no REALLY well; (3) I didn't let an insanely physically and emotionally demanding work schedule stop me from running 4 times this week; (5) I learned (the hard way) that too little sleep and not eating well make Eliz a grouchy girl and a terrible runner. The bad news: in spite of all that, I'm really feeling down about what I'm perceiving as lack of progress in my running right now. (Translation: I'm tired of being so bloody slow!) I'm chalking it up to being too tired to really look at anything in a very balanced way at the moment. I'm also trying to work out my overwhelming fear and loathing of racing. As I'm writing, the really good news popped into my tired brain: I'm on track with the #1 goal of the year of running 1000K INJURY-FREE kilometers, and I'm even thinking of shooting for 1000 injury-free miles. Not doing so great on the "have fun while doing it" part, but that'll come back, I know. The other good news is that, even though I've been too overwhelmed to contribute much this week, I've been amused and inspired by the glimpses of your lives that you continue to share so generously. And the BEST news? In 4-1/2 weeks, my job won't interfere with my running for about 10 weeks. (Yikes, no excuses then!) Looking forward to a 20-mile week and my first-ever 9-mile run. Happy rest-of-the-weekend, everyone. Eliz

No walk for me yet today. Was suppose to meet a couple of people at Duke Trail but they called at 6:30 this morning and cancelled. Went back to bed thinking maybe our GD would sleep in...no such luck, she was up at 7:30! I love it when she spends the night! DH and GD are napping so I think I'll get a few minutes in myself. Hopefully will get in a few miles this evening. Tall -- Do you have a cookbook?!

6.9 miles at a 9:14 pace... Ribs, I still can't figure out how to A) Color code my workouts even with the sites directions found by clicking "Options"... B) Titling my different workouts...Trails, Fartlek, etc. Tall, you gotta stop writing about food!! An absolutely beautiful day here...Enjoy! Chris

Happy Sunday everyone!! went out yesterday for a walk/run and my electronics all failed me -- well, i left my regular watch at home, my cell phone in the car, put on my MP3 player -- dead, put on my garmin - low battery which DIED after m y 10 minute walk -- so i just carried on electronic free --- ran annd walked just listening to my body and the beauty around me...........did the old-fashioned drive the route afterwards to see i did 5 miles - probably in about an hour.........felt ok -- some pinching in the butt and slight lower back ache but not awful -- then did my PT stretches and exercises.........today feeling ok but not working out -- thought about a bike ride because it's another glorious day, but i was up for 9:30 mass, came home to cook for the tribe, made brownies and now thinking i better squeeze in a nap before work tonight!! sarge - i always feel a little tired after donating blood as well, unfortunately i've tried to donate twice in the last 2 weeks but have been rejected for low hemoglobin -- i'm calling myself the blood donor failure right now -- they just laugh at me and tell me to try again........need to be better about taking my vitamins i guess because i don't eat red meat and its hard to get enough iron in the leafy greens!! anyway --- enjoy the rest of the weekend all!!

Eliz, hang in there! Do you have a log? Have you ever thought of opening it to get some suggestions from people? That has really helped me in the past. Are you running slowly enough when you train? That's my biggest challenge. RAers keep telling me that to run more miles, I need to be gowing slower. It's great you'll have a good window of time to concentrate on running. I think you should just keep plugging, and you WILL see progress.

Oops, just realized I didn't get a chance to post my run this morning. Like Spareribs, I was very tired this morning -- my run yesterday was reasonably fast, and I haven't been running much lately. So my planned 12 miler turned into a 9 miler on dead legs -- I'm still happy that I was able to run the last three of four days without any pain. With luck I'll be able to ramp up again to "normal" mileage quickly. Workout: 8.2 miles, 8:58/mi, AHR 155 (see what I mean about dead legs?) Overall: 9.2 miles, 1:22 I just got a book on digital nature photography -- now I feel like I am taking a refresher course on the stuff I used to know from late elementary school. I have my camera out and am playing with the controls as I'm reading the book. I know I can take better pictures than what I have posted at http://www.pbase.com/lking/birds . These aren't horrible, but looking in this book I can see that there's a lot of room for improvement.