Good Morning! Mariposai and Lyndenrunner – where are you running a relay next week? I don’t see it listed in the Intrepid Racers thread. Roch – I noticed your tentative mile yesterday. Any after effects? No run for me today (again) – light x-training instead: leg lifts w/ankle weights, face-up, leg lifts w/o weights, face-down, shoulder presses, bent rows, superman lifts, push-ups, crunches and three 60-second wall-sits (hey, these are hard!). Is it okay for me to continue to have this stream of non-running posts while I’m on the DL? I understand now how some people choose to disappear while they are injured,..it feels a little awkward being here without running… No sitter today, so DD is coming to work with me for the morning (I’m taking off at noon.) This will be a nice surprise for my boss. Tonight is DD’s first-ever sleepover with 2 of her little girlfriends. I’m taking them to the pool and then they’re going to camp out in her tent, which I will put up in the family room. Might be a late night.

Thanks for getting us started this morning Holly and of course you can continue to post while on the DL, you are still a very integral part of this forum and would be sorely missed if you took any serious time away. Oh and have fun with your DD's sleep over! Well I finally sent my Garmin 305 back for a swap out. I was just having too many issues with it and the battery life was pretty much non-existent for long runs. And every now and then (more often than not when traveling to races) it would simply not even come on. So I had to dig through my stuff and locate my old Garmin 201 which I had ended up keeping (glad I did now). I charged the 201 up and used it on yesterdays run, allthough I'll have to do without the heart rate info for now. Things aren’t looking really good for tomorrow’s 5 mile road race weather wise…high temps and high humidity are being predicted for Saturday. Even though this is an 8:00 AM start, this course can be brutal when it is hot! Oh well we can’t control the weather can we, so I’ll just play it by ear and do the best I can. One positive note is that the extreme temps here will force me to go nice and slow in my run this afternoon although I hope to at least be able to run a few strides in each mile to give those fast twitch muscles a wakeup call in preparation for tomorrow. My main goal coming into this race was to simply set a 5 mile PR which is currently 32:43 (set on this course last year) and to better my finishing position in both my AG (7/89) and OA (100/917). We’ve got some pretty fast guys in my age group up here including Tom Ryan who is nationally ranked and the usual winner in most races he runs for our age group. These are the top ten times in the 50-59 AG last year, very respectable for us old geezers wouldn’t you say? 1 – 27:34 – 5:31 – 16 OA 2 – 29:54 – 5:59 – 44 OA 3 – 30:30 – 6:06 – 56 OA 4 – 31:13 – 6:15 – 66 OA 5 – 31:31 – 6:19 – 72 OA 6 – 32:08 – 6:26 – 86 OA 7 – 32:43 – 6:33 – 100 OA 8 – 33:17 – 6:40 – 124 OA 9 – 33:21 – 6:41 – 127 OA 10 – 33:38 – 6:44 – 134 OA

Looks a lot like my view Dave. Do you work here? Mainerunnah mentions the anticipated high temps and humidity for his race and then sets his goals at a PR. You da Man! 3 recovery miles just to keep the legs loose. Strangely, I felt a few twinges. Maybe I was running too slow or too short. Bill

Mainerunnah - I had to swap out my 305 after I first got it. They sent me a new one and I have not had a single problem with it (knock on wood). Thanks for starting us Holly. Your crosstraining ranks right up there - more than I do that's for sure! If you didn't see the picture of Riblet yesterday - you need to go back and check it out. I say that's a boy yearning to be home playing with Lucy. Rest day for me. TGIF!

With "grins" in the title, I thought for a moment Aamos had started us off today! Holly--don't be silly, not only is it "okay" for you keep posting, it's a requirement! Even 6 miles @ 9:14 today, keeping HR down to a comfortable 131. Have a good weekend.

Good morning to you all... I post over in the 40's on the run thread but I do "nose" around in this thread as well. So hello to everyone! Question for Holly......About 3 weeks ago I started getting pain in the "groin" area. Don't remember pulling anything or doing anything out of the norm, it just seemed to appear one day. Anyway, I took 2 weeks off and am just getting back into running. I didn't and don't have much of a base so I haven't "lost" anything. Did 3 very easy miles this morning and things feel pretty good. Here's my question: Is your pain right where the top of the leg meets the torso? Right in the crease/pelvic area? Just curious.......Also, do you remember how you injured it? I can't remember doing anything to trigger this injury, it is very mind boggling! Jewels

Here's my question: Is your pain right where the top of the leg meets the torso? Right in the crease/pelvic area? Just curious.......Also, do you remember how you injured it?

Sartorius? http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_groinstr_art.htm If so, regular leg lifts and "side-lying leg lift" did wonders for me http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_xgroinst_art.htm

But Dave, you have such lovely wall sconces out for a nice run at 6am this morning. 4.2 in 37:50 . Is is possible to have a semi-sproinky run and not know it till you're done? Granted a 9 m/m pace is not flying along, but for what I thought was a large portion of the run, I felt like I was sort of plodding. I expected to see a time approaching 40:00 when I finished. (I never check till the end) No striders today, but i guess I did pick up the pace after stopping to pet a nice pair of Australian shepards. the last mile felt really good. And not even watching a 20-something girl go effortlessly flying by me spoiled it Holly--you need to keep posting--can't go through both running and posting withdrawal at the sme time Like DAve said, you do a lot more while on the DL than I do healthy. Kevin