Morning Gang, I shouldn't say TGIF as I've just had 4 days off and am working tomorrow. Just had a nice hilly 5.3 miler up to the Trundle, an old ancient iron age fort (not that you would know) On the site it gives a 200' climb but where I am coming at it from it is over 500' climb on the 3rd mile. Cracking views. Anyway: 5.33m 59:46 @ 11:13 AHR 152 71% Good runs All Roy

Good morning, everyone. Nice runs, Roy and Steve. Hills and speed -- way to go. 3 miles of recovery today for me, as is usual for Fridays. Got to sleep in until 4:30, woohoo! 3.2 miles, 29:14, 9:17/mi, AHR 129 Have a great weekend -- go racers!

MP day for me today. I had to squeeze 7 miles into about an hour - couldn't get myself up any earlier - so the plan was based on the time available. Ended up with 7 miles in 1:02 (8:52). I wanna meet the Beers and Mariposa too! Bill

I'm never certain what to do the day after a missed run. Make up the mileage and/or speed work? Ignore it and stick to the originally scheduled run? Today was a compromise. I stuck to the original 5 miler scheduled for today but stuck in a few tempo-paced miles I should have been doing yesterday. It seemed silly to do just an easy run after a day off. 5.2 miles total, with 3 @ 7:42 in IRC. Remember, 80% of success in life is just showing up. The other 20% is not dropping the baton.

Scranton Wilkes –Barre Yankees 8 and Rochester Red Wings 7 It was a gorgeous evening and the kiddo caught a tee –shirt (tried to get a foul ball….no way). The guys even relented and agreed to stop (en route) at Olana, the beautiful home (Moorish architectural style and great tile work) of Frederick Church. He of the Hudson River School of painters and near the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. Two more baseball games to go and on to Rochester soon. My MIL is ailing, so we are worrying right now. Today’s run was a relaxed one---got out at 7:00 AM and ran out one direction from the hotel for 35 minutes and back for 35 minutes. I’ll call it 8 miles. Warmer here in PA, but still low humidity and clear skies. Thanks for the book link Hopeful----sounds like it will be a fun read! I love car trips like the one we are taking. I have already read two books and have a few more for the miles ahead. I read Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve and I Remember Running by Darcy Wakefield (a fellow Smithie and a major tear jerker of a story). We also played the license plate game and have 36 states already and we are just 3.5 hours from home-----cool! We're going to head to Montage Mountain and try the Zip Line ride now...gotta scoot. Not sure I’ll be able to post much once we get to the in-laws place in Pittsford. Happy weekend all---good runs, resting and the like CNYrunner/Karin

Out for 3 this morning. I was less-than motivated. Son woke up at around 1 a.m. screaming bloody murder. That lasted perhaps 1/2 hour. My husband took care of most of that, but couldn't get him settled. Finally, he fell asleep on me, while I was sitting up. I managed to fall asleep sitting up, to be greeted about 20 min later with a whispered, "Mommy, I'm wet." Yep, other child checking in. She wet the bed. So, we got up, stripped the master bed (where she had been sleeping) and started the laundry. Luckily, the kids each have queen sized beds so we split up with the kids and went to sleep. At 6 a.m., I was awakened to the lovely tones of Renee throwing up. In a corner. Where the Spot Bot won't fit. Now, Renee never throws up, my daughter never wets the bed, and my son never wakes up for any reason at night. I never bother running at this time of year if it is past 7, but I figured WHAT THE HECK? Everything else is out of whack... and I got it done. I was reminded why I wait till September to go out later (too crowded) but I managed. My race on Sunday is looking promising. I didn't post it in Ilene's thread as I was too touch and go about showing up, but it is a 10K the next island over at 8 a.m. My babysitter is now going to run it with me, and I think my dentist is going too. Should be a whole lot of fun!

Have any of the men's and women's USA relay runners ever heard of Superglue? This is absurd! Anybody remember that football movie "The Replacements"? If you did, you'll remember the scene where they put stickum on the guy's hands. They've made so many scoring changes in wrestling, they've absolutely ruined the sport...we DEFINATELY need to bring in our WWE guys. I absolutely LOVED the BMX race! They're finally making an effort to pull in the younger viewers, sorta like the winter games did when they added mogul skiing & snowboarding. I think over the years we'll see more & more of the X Games stuff incorporated in the Olympics. Of course if they really want a younger audience, we could have jacks, hopscotch, & double-dutch jumproping. Roch: Great to hear you're back in the game...keep it up. Jeanne: Sorry to hear about your "protesting" leg...I'm telling you, if we opened up an injury thread, it would be twice as long as the daily. Sarge: 8:16 5K pace...great run! Can't believe you were only 5th in AG...must have been a speedy group. Maine:

"a bad day of golf is better than a good day at work"

Yeah, but I think it was Mark Twain that said "Golf is a good walk spoiled." Carolyn: Yeah, I've had zillions of days that I was scheduled to run but didn't want to...really glad you got your miles in..you got moxie, girl. TomS: Kill 'em this week-end! Lame: 10 miles at lunch...that's fabulous! Peanut butter sandwiches at any time are always a good idea. Roy: You run the coolest routes of anyone. Breger: You anywhere near Cocoa? My BIL said they got tons of rain. Sue: Nice run...that was excellent...have a great bike week-end. Is this an organized sort of thing? NoNo: As if you didn't have enough problems! Sorry 'bout son, daughter, dog...at least you didn't flub the baton pass. Decent run for me this morning..ran an extremely hilly (7 major hills) 4.5 mile course in 41:05 (9:08). Only walked twice..a little on the 5th & 6th hills..but I ran all of the first 4 and the last one. Stayed at work until after 3 A.M. last night...think I'll relax today & watch the bball game. DickyG

There was an article in the washington post this morning, that these relay runners were always the fastest on their prospective teams, and have not had much experience with running relays. For many, the olympics is the first time they've ever tried it.