hope i get to meet you Amy!! i'll be at the finish line with the medical sweeps team!! oh - i just wanted to update.......i went to MVS track last night to talk with the coach and he hooked me up with one of the PT's - he worked with me for awhile and told me the best place for me to get excellent PT with someone who is runner savy --- i called today and they are getting me in this afternoon!! SWEET!! then around 6ish i leave for a women's acts retreat thru my church - getting nervous but happy at the same time - think this is just what i need right now!! i really can't wait to meet as many of you as possible sunday afternoon and monday - wonder if i can wear something distinguishable on my marathon red/medical team jacket so you might recognize me at the finish line ...... i'll have numbers written down and will be on the lookout hoping to wish you a CONGRATULATIONS as you woosh right by me!! to all runners - enjoy your weekend wherever you may be......run well, run happy!!

BTB: Gorgeous photos! Wow! But so sorry about the other stuff you're dealing with. 5 easy miles this morning. One more short run on Saturday, and that's it! We'll get out of work by 5 tonight (which is very early for us), and finish packing. We've got to be on the road by 7am tomorrow. We've got tickets for the Beer Summit at the Park Plaza Castle tomorrow evening and the taps open at 5:30pm. Happy travels, all. weather.com Few showers. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the upper 40s. wbztv.com Mostly cloudy. Fog in the mornings. Chance of drizzle. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the mid 40s. noaa.gov A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Chance of precipitation is 30%. accuweather.com High: 56°F RealFeel®: 50°F Mainly cloudy and breezy with a couple of showers possible Winds: SE at 18mph Wind Gusts: 31 mph (Yikes!) Max UV Index: Moderate (3) Thunderstorm Probability: 10% Amount of Precipitation: 0.03in Amount of Rain: 0.03in Amount of Snow: 0.0in Hours of Precipitation: 1 Hrs Hours of Rain: 1 Hrs Hours of Daylight: 13.7 Hrs

Well, the weather forecast looks encouraging for Boston, and all of you seem fit and eager, which is a good sign. What fun we will have following this. I think I fly out that afternoon and will miss keeping track this year, but looking forward to logging on as soon as I get to gorgeous Livonia, MI Monday night! I just got home a couple of hours ago, early flight from Pitt. The Saint and I did a short, very slow jog in the park. I am tired. Spareribs

accuweather.com Amount of Snow: 0.0in

I can't tell you how happy I am to see THAT!!! Woohoo! I could do without the rain, but other than a little breezy it looks like IRC to me! Enke, love your poem. And actually, that's sort of how I felt earlier this week. I just didn't even care enuf to do my last week of taper runs. It was more because of all the other stuff I'm dealing with at work and home, and the running just seemed like it didn't matter (all that "training is in the bank" talk, ya know?). But I felt so much better after a run that I made myself do it. 5 more miles tonight, EZ run after two days of progression runs, and I'm not sure if I'll do the TM or venture outside... it's chilly but we haven't had anymore snow so bikepaths seem clear. BTB, so sorry for all you're dealing with. On top of your own derailed running plans, having these two people in your life take such turns for the worse is heart wrenching. Thanks for posting those photos, they really are beautiful, and show that at least you're getting some relief with those morning walks in all that splendor. Holly, finally girlfren! So you found your sproink in your running skirt. About damn time, I must say. Be sure to pack it for your trip! Amy... I reminded DH to print our boarding passes today. I'll call him at 12:30 to remind him again! Just re-read thru my marathon booklet (yes, I'm at work... so?) and getting soooo psyched about it. Will do a whirlwind cleanup, laundry and packing job tonight, final touches tomorrow a.m. and then we're outta here! (ok, so DS1 is staying with my parents... he wants me to leave him my car.... hmmmm... dad has offered to drive him wherever he needs to go, but he has school and varsity soccer practice on weekdays, comp soccer practice on the weekends... what'cha think?)

wonder if i can wear something distinguishable on my marathon red/medical team jacket so you might recognize me at the finish line ......

I'm telling you, get one of those shiny pinwheels and wave it at the finish line......

Evanflein - here's a story that may help you make a decision: Our DS#1 was 17, had just got his license and a full time summer job. We were leaving for a vacation and he decided that he "needed the money" and couldn't afford to miss a week of work. So, we left him the keys to my Jeep Cherokee to use for summer football practice and going to work every day, with the agreement that grandma would stop daily to check up and make sure everything was "in order." The jeep had a fiberglass top that came off for driving around in warm weather, which he had taken off a few days earlier. Before we left, his dad suggested that they put the top back on (it was too heavy for one person to lift on/off) so in case of bad weather, he would be ready to go. The top got put back on, and his dad told him to put the bolts back in place to hold it in place. He was in a hurry to get to a friend's house and said that yes, he would be sure to do that. We left for vacation, and when we came back, the house was okay, but the top was off the jeep and it wasn't anywhere visible. My husband asked him where the top might be, and he told us he "had left it at a friend's house" because the weather was so nice. It took us a week to get to the bottom of the story....He never bolted the top down, and one morning he left for work after oversleeping and in a hurry. He was on the highway headed to his construction job when a gust of wind came up and blew the top off the jeep. He was lucky no one was behind him because they probably could have been killed. BUT!! Instead of going back to get it, he left it on the side of the road!!! His excuse was he didn't want to be late for work. When he went back for it later in the day, of course it was no longer there. It took him several days to get the courage to tell us the truth. The jeep was parked at the end of the driveway with a "for sale" sign on it the next morning...

You sold YOUR Jeep cuz he did that? I'd have taken the keys away and made him buy a replacement top... hmmm, but that's just me. I'm pretty confident in his ability, I'm just not so confident that he'll pay attention and watch what's going on all the time. But then, he would or wouldn't do that if I was here, also. I guess it's just that if something were to happen to him and/or car, I'd prefer to be here than on the other side of the continent. So... still thinkin' about it.