It was actually 4.1 but I know how Dark Horse hates those fractional miles.

Well, I do hate fractional miles, but the other day on the treadmill, I would have stopped at a fractional distance due to pain except it was the last day of the year. Finishing the year with a fractional total is just ... well ... the enormity of such an atrocity boggles my mind. The effort of contemplating this idea is so draining that I must now lie down and rest. Dark Horse

Well, I do hate fractional miles, but the other day on the treadmill, I would have stopped at a fractional distance due to pain except it was the last day of the year. Finishing the year with a fractional total is just ... well ... the enormity of such an atrocity boggles my mind. The effort of contemplating this idea is so draining that I must now lie down and rest. Dark Horse

Kind of like when a young engineer uses "392,842.61 pounds" to describe a seismic load that is based on formulas that are wild-assed guesses, lol.

5 miles (or thereabouts) with Dromedary. I think we did more talking and catching up than running. {{Erika's family and missing doggie}} {{Dark Horse's ankle}} They do shoot them, don't they? {{biketm's calf}} Use ice!! No stretching! Spareribs, Bart Yasso emailed me too.

solarmix11 falling into place. some highs and lows. 11:36pm. ok, 11:37pm. cold sweat dripping off my brow. fingers jittery and shaking. running shoes on the floor taunting me. they look so shiny... glinting the room lights. my precious is calling me... yes, we will run precious... yes, we will... ...if i run at 12:01am, then wednesday was still zero miles, right?.... 11:38pm...

Enjoying MC's taper... almost as much as Holly's long run thread. I've always been confounded by intervals and such. Now I believe I don't really need to worry about them (thanks, Ribs!). I love doing tempo runs and MLR, and I think Hermosaboy offered the very good comment about 3:1's... I really need to work on not fading so much at the end, and I think those would help me immensely (on MLR's as well as LR's). Good stuff... if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. No dog. Called the shelter right at 11, went over there at 1... lots of sad looking dogs, but not my girl. DH printed tons of posters (just black/white) and I stuffed newspaper boxes all over on my way home. Tomorrow he'll do the roads farther West and North of the house. Ad in the paper won't run till Friday (I missed the cutoff by half hour). Not sure what else to do... feeling sort of defeated here. After my flier stuffing expedition, I hit the treadmill for 8 miles, ended up with 8.59 (sorry DH and Tammy) in 80 minutes, avg pace 9:19. It felt so slow, but I was using the HRM, and trying to keep a lid on the rate. I think my max is really high... cuz at 165 I felt fine and could sing along with my ipod. I've always gone on PRE, which sometimes seems a more "individualized" approach. But figured I'd see what it took to keep it in the mid-150's, then the mid-160's, how fast I'd recover down to 70, etc. It was interesting, but made for a longer session than I'd planned!