Good Morning! 13 miles for me today in 40 degrees (ave 9:33), with miles 7, 8, 9, and 10 at MP. Legs felt pretty good today, but my run was plagued with a nagging side-stitch that came and went. I wish I knew what caused those, and how to make them go away. I wore my blue Boston 2008 long-sleeved tech shirt and my yellow Marathon Maniac singlet over it, and concentrated on positive visualization. DD’s swim lesson at noon, then afterward we’re off to DS’s first outdoor soccer game in a town an hour north of here. Happy Saturday!

Good morning all, nice 13 miler Holly and 6 inches of fresh snow for SLO...YUK! I'll take the rain they are calling for during tomorrow's Eastern States 20 Miler...I'm just using it as a Boston Training run anyways...see if I can get close to MP for the whole thing. Saturday - 6.03 miles - 51:40 - 8:35 - Very Foggy, 36° & humid 9:02 - 8:37 - 8:34 - 8:26 - 8:20 - 8:19 - :18 This fog is supposed to clear up and one of my son in-laws is coming over to help cut down a good sized tree that broke during the ice storm we had this winter, of course that means the youngest grand daughter will be here too!

Saturday greetings! Nice visualizing Holly. I try to massage those stitches out when they appear….annoying. Sorry about the snow SLO…..I am sure we’ll get more here too, but it can’t stick around this time. The joke at home in Syracuse is that we have 9 months of winter and 3 months of bad skiing. No hockey for the kiddo this morning and I could have slept in, so what did I do? Yup…went running. Actually Canada J wanted to get her miles in earlyish and that’s good enough for me. We ran together for 8 miles and then I added 4 back to my house for a nice 12 miles at 8:40 pace overall. It was 40º at 7 a.m. when we headed out and 52º on the return loop. The hockey reprieve isn’t permanent as evaluations for next year are held next week and then the kiddo is playing Spring hockey (just three on three) until the end of June. It was nice not to rush around though yelling: “Have your jerseys? Grumble, moan….Have your mouth guard?….. groan moan,…..Fill your water bottle?….Aw Mo-O-M” Oh and the tooth saga…..turns out I need a crown---broke the tooth and filling. Foo! Two more steps to go….. Good luck to all the racers this weekend! Mainerunnah----I hope Eastern States goes well for you. The weather last year was glorious, but I have run that race in the rain too and all was well. One of my running partners (Iron J) will be up there to run it. Her parents live on the NH coast, so it’s a combination trip and great workout pre-Boston. This is also the race where I meet Deez4boys. What a difference a year makes! Go MP! Hi WRFB! Maybe your body is just saving up for tomorrow.

Good morning gang. A rest day for me. I ran 110 miles in the last 2 weeks so I'm being cautious and taking a break today. Most likely my last 20 miler before Boston is on tap for tomorrow. It's a rainy,dreary day here & I'm playing around with Microsoft's new Windows 7 OS Beta...pretty cool. BYW, where is Perch? Karin, I've got a great dentist & I really like him BUT I always maintained that the real pain in going to the dentist is what it does to your wallet...or pocketbook in your case. Good run to everyone today.

Karin, sorry to hear about your dental expense. We're in the same boat. DH has had one crown and needs another. I looked into dental insurance a couple of years ago, but it was expensive and didn't seem to pay enough towards dental bills to make it worthwhile. A fun but hard 3.0 miles this morning. Very humid! I ran with DD10. It's the first time she's run in months. She jabbered the whole way. Towards the end, she said, "Well, I'm still not tired!" The last quarter mile, she decided to run faster. Afterwards, she said, "When I do my kick, it almost feels like I'm not doing anything - I just GOOO!! It's like my muscles are working without telling my brain." It looks as if 2 of my 3 kids are natural runners. Still baffles me. It's such hard work for me!

CNYrunner as my DW would say so long as you are alive there is hope things will get better! I am not dead yet, and I plan to see you at a race sometime again. As I blow by of course! P.S. On the up side of that dental bill is that at least these days they can fix problems like yours these days. If you think of the money as having been spent on something worthwhile and that will make you happy long into the future perhaps the cost will seem less, err, costly. dg. morning to you too. Like you my DW mentioned how her run (which was this morning) was her best in a long while. I suspect spring's arrival might be the culprit. Well, that and working at it! SueT48 and I thought only my town had races at odd distances. Woods Lady welcome to RA. Econo it will be nice to meet you in person in a bit over a month when I head out to Oregon.. Who knows maybe I will even be able to run again and will get a chance to accompany you on a short jog. Alas, I think that HM I had hoped run the weekend of the Eugene Marathon while I was out there is not going to be on my schedule. mainerunnah that was a heck of a climb yesterday around mile 7! Is that raw from the Garmin or after an elevation correction. If it was the latter it looks like running up and down a cliff! Ok, I cannot post a run but I can post my weekly muffin creation. This week I brought over to the jogging club some made with strawberries and another batch with bananas both of which had toasted pecans. They were both a a big hit, but in my humble opinion the banana ones were awesome! I am also happy the muffins all went since it is better that we do not have too many around the house during the week. No running = no eating. Sad but true. I did get to the gym for my every other day workout. As for running, my DW was off with the club this morning and reported that for the first time since January her legs and feet were pain free. She had tweaked her ACL while skiing and it looks like it and the subsequent damage done by compensating for it are now all healed up. So some good news on the health front around my house. Happy spring running everybody!

steve, nice picture you posted the other day. With a setting like that, it doesn't matter what else is happening, life is good. bike, I'd say it appears that there's never a dull moment at your work place with you around. I'm sure everyone appreciates it. CNY, sorry to hear about the tooth problem and the cost. I hope you get fixed up soon. WoodsLady, welcome MaEcono. Post often. PJH, I hope you have progress healing after your treatment. Nice long runs for breger (with tumble and road rash), WRFB, srlopez, maine, Holly, and CNY. This morning, it was about 30° and a little bit of wind. I got in 11 miles (longest since mid Nov) in a bit over 1:46 for a 9:38 pace. About mile 3, I saw my pace was about 10 min/mi and about mid way it was in the mid 9:50s. I was satisfied as that's consistent with what I've been running and would hope for on a long run. The last mile got hard and the last half mile real hard. When I saw my overall pace had dropped to 9:38, I figured that sort of explained it. Upon checking my mile splits, I found that, starting with mile 6, I had an unintentional progression run with the last mile at 8:38, a full minute below my average pace. No wonder I felt like I was going to die at the end. A good day and good runs for all. TomS

SLO_HAND I have made cranberry ones too and they are indeed really good! I do find them a bit tart though but add some apple butter and . . . ah the memories!