Evan, that's great news that your dog is back. Steve, sorry to hear about your wife's car accident but glad she suffered no serious damage. Cars can be relplaced. Ilene, it's good to hear you got in a run yesterday without hip pain. Tall, running at -22 degrees is beyond my comprehension. Holly, thanks for the update on your mother in law. I'm happy to hear she is making progress. Teresa, that moose incident sounds scary. I've had a couple of deer accidents, but a moose in in a completely different league. anachrotech, you're getting that mileage back up. Your persistence and patience is paying off. Nice long runs for dtoce, jjj, Twocat, Peter (with hills), derrick, Fortunate, and PJH. Good job on the speedwork CNY. This morning, it was about 30 (approximately 50 degrees warmer than Tall's run) and there was a little wind. As there was hard packed snow/ice on the roads, I put on my Yaks and headed out. I got in 8 miles in a bit over 1:16 for a 9:31 pace. I wasn't trying to do anything special, just get the run in. After 2 or 3 miles, it looked like I was a bit under a 10 min pace which was ok with me. About 5 or 6, I saw that I might get down to a 9:45 pace if I didn't fade too bad. I was quite surprised when I saw the time at the end. Checking my mile splits, I discovered that the second mile was the slowest and each one after that got faster, the last one under 9 minutes. I ran the second 4 by over 2.5 minutes faster than the first 4. I don't know how that happens sometimes. Maybe I subconsciously decided to push the last couple but for most of it I was just happy to muddle along taking what happened. I've only got a few more runs until we head for Phoenix where my daughter and I will run the half, my wife and her brother and his wife have volunteered at the finish line, and we will meet up with brother Dave (selb3 from CR) who will be there as a TNT coach. A good day and good runs for all. TomS

Ran the Cloud Trail, a recycled railway line, 12.03 miles to end and back in 1:33:00 and felt c**p so still not over my cold. It must count as the worst I have ever felt on a training run but on the positive side I had no problem with my achilles which has been giving me grief for over a year. The joy about this route is that its traffic free and not hilly, its slightly downhill on the way out and there are mile posts for splits. Also it is runnable in any weather and can be quite pretty ( apart from now ) Had my wife Christine and the Poison Dwarf ( Lucy my youngest ) with me on their bikes , is was 6 C and after about 5 miles we hit a cloudburst with hail, morale dropped but as I had the car keys they had to follow. It cost me fish and chips all round on the way home. Tomorrow some serious mountain biking with Paulo and Stulio. Good luck to anyone racing tomorrow.

Went out for 7 with the club. It was all up and down hills this a.m. Thought about NOT doing hills yet...but figured if I kept the pace manageable, and promised to walk if any pain started...I would give it a try. Soooooo In a frosty 30F I set out on the Custis Trail for 7.06 miles in 1:39:33 for an avg. 14:06 m/m. My target was a 14 m/m. Wow, did it. Splits 14:45, 14:32, 15:15, 15:07, 13:32, 13:09, 12:21 Then for the "fun" part I headed to the gym for 30 min of swimming, 10 min of whirlpooling, 7 min of cold plunge (trying to last for 10) and 15 min of steaming....nice! I have been able to do 20 mpw the last two weeks and I am almost ready to declare myself healed...but not quite yet. This PF is a sneaky one.... Bitetm...I hear ya. I was not able to run for almost 8 months...it was hard to read of everyones runs... Good runs/races to all.

Hopeful4ever.... It sounds like your memory is exhausted on the 305. You may have to go in there and delete some miles. Once it gets to that stage, the little messages pop up and data becomes distorted. Try doing that and then see what happens. By the way, you can download all the info onto your computer first, to be able to save it before you start deleting the various runs.

Thanks Joey! I did just that - so hopefully things will be fine tomorrow. The odd thing is that March 31st run - it was never there before and I only had about 4 other runs in memory. But, seeing as I somehow ran a 24 and 22 mile run that probably took up some memory. ~Mary

I've only got a few more runs until we head for Phoenix where my daughter and I will run the half, my wife and her brother and his wife have volunteered at the finish line, and we will meet up with brother Dave (selb3 from CR) who will be there as a TNT coach. TomS

tom, please send me an email at mc_solar_99 at yahoo dot com... i'd love to meet up if you guys have a moment or two. i'm driving up saturday, stopping by the expo, and staying in scottsdale. pjh: the earliest carb loading experiments had a 3 day depletion phase, followed by a three day loading phase. during the depletion you cut most or all carbs out of your diet. the idea was that if your body was fully depleted of carbs, and thus most of your glycogen, you would absorb the carbs more effectively during the following carb loading phase. recent research didn't verify this result though, so it's a dubious result. it's a tiring phase... i get really grumpy, and my heart rate sky-rockets on easy runs when i'm carb depleting... but i did it last year, and i'm an animal of habit...

Good running or resting everyone! On my way out to the run, my 3 crow friends came by for their morning peanuts. They are so bold now since they eat right in front of me (they used to wait until I went indoors). My neighbors seem a little scared of us for doing this. Ran 10 miles on a woodchip trail that was a bit moist. 51 deg F, cloudy but nice. It stopped raining here in my part of So. Cal. for now.

Complete rest day for me today other than the work holiday party I am about to go to. Time to keep one hand free and not overindulge.

I had great weather for a long run. It was 41° and slightly windy but not enough to hurt. Being 4 weeks away from taper time, I tried another easy 26.2 but quit at 23. It just wasn't feeling as relaxed as it did 2 weeks ago. I did 26.2 in 3:49:20 (8:45) and today's 23 took 3:22:08 (8:47). It was still a quality session as I saved the suffering for race day. Just 2 more 20+ mile runs before tapering.