Congrats Nono on the new Garmin! You'll be amazed at how much more accurate this one is and how much better reception you'll get. I had the old 301 for a couple of years, and was amazed at how much better the 205 and 305 hold signal in the woods and such (maybe not a problem on the beach?). Ribs is one hawt chicka, I swear. And there is a special place in heaven for the Saint. Tramps, I do feel like a hamster sometimes, but it's worse when I'm at the gym and there's a whole lineup of hamsters churning away! DH had my car handwashed and waxed earlier this week, and last night we went to a comedy show. Funny stuff, and my car looks beautiful. Better than chocolate, I'd say. It's 16F out this morning, heading up to over 20 today I'll bet! We did get some snow last night, but not much. Figures, since the bikepath by my house just got plowed the other day. My plan said "9 miles" but I don't know if I'll do the full 9. I will head out from here though, and see where I end up. Tomorrow's long run will be shorter (14) for my "cutback" week (which thanks to running a bit Monday and Friday won't be a big cutback, but it's been all pretty easy), and I want to run that trail with all the hills again.

Ribs is showing a little to much cleavage but that other dude is showing way to much hip. 4 tempoish miles today 34:00 I was thinking of running a 5k today to get a good feel for my fitness going into next week (starting my new made over plan) but the snow we got last night would have made it impossible to get a good race in so off to the gym instead. Tim, Its good to hear you describe a run with no references to pain or injury. Keep up the good work. Valentines Day and my wife and I both forgot all about it ! I am painting our lower level and she is off with her lady friends. I guess after 29 years we can give each other a pass. I don't usually bore all of you with my personal life but my DIL got a 3D sonigram done yesterday and I am going to be a proud grandpa of a beutiful girl, Ella. Have any of you seen these? They are un believable. It is like a picture you can see all her features including nose ,toes and even the eyes. She also got a 30 minute cd of the baby so you get to see her move around suck her thumb ,punch her mother etc. Again un believable. Now I have to wait 2 more months. Good runs everyone Larry

Larry, that's great! Congratulations, and isn't it cool what they can do now with those sonograms? I remember ours we had to kind of take the technician's word for what we were looking at...

woooohooooooo Mr Nonoruns!! AWESOME gift!! you're going to love it!! and another woooohooooooo to Ribs and his fellow red dress runners!! you guys look great - but my boys are just sitting here shaking their heads!! lol someday they'll be lucky if they can pull something like that off!! went outside today for a walk/run -- just don't rat me out on Facebook - a lot of my co-workers post there and they will not be happy to hear me doing a little running -- tough cookies 8 min walk 2 min run 7 min walk 3 min run 7 min walk 4 min run 4 min walk cooldown - total time 35 min 2.67 miles not much but something -- i need to do little bits each day to build my strength back up or i'll never be able to work 12 hour night shifts -- i'm already thinking there's no way i'll be ready in 2 weeks and might ask for more time off - i have plenty of sick time saved and we can take up to 12 weeks and not worry about our position. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FRIENDS!!

Congrats on the Garmin, Nono! What a smart husband you have! DH and I "celebrated" by closing on a home equity line of credit and then eating breakfast at Denny's! Can you tell that we have a kid starting college in a year and a half??? It is very cold and windy today, so I will run tomorrow! Happy Valentine's Day!

nonoruns you are going to love that new Garmin 305. Just as evanflein wrote, it is way better at tracking where you are and not dropping the satellite signals than the X01's were. evanflein wow 20°! What a heat wave! Glad I live in the "south!" halllar sounds wonderful that they can now produce such clear pictures with a sonogram. You must be just beaming! enkephalin good luck with the echo. I will keep my fingers crossed that it comes out clean. Actually, I strongly suspect it will and that finger crossing is totally unnecessary! But then it cannot hurt either! stumpy77 glad they had a good time. Let me see for Valentine's Day you sent your DW away . . . Teresadfp well with interest rates at their current level this is the time to adopt an 18 year old and send an extra one to college! Do you think they run two for one specials? Seriously, congratulations on the closing. It must be a relief to be done with all the paperwork. Mariposai nice double digit run with some MP miles thrown it too!

Well, the run went off smoothly at the Club. The Saint was embarrassed all morning at seeing me in the dress, especially when I insisted on stopping at Starbucks for a coffee. She stayed slumped down in the seat when I was inside. But she did take this one fashion shot of me before we left the house. Of course I wore my red Asics DS Trainers: She was relieved when we got to the clubhouse and learned that I didn't look as bad as some of the men. You should have seen the hair on the back of the big guy next to me in this picture: 4 miles total for me today at about 9:30's, and my first 40-mile week. It's tough running in a dress. For one thing, today was cold and I wished I had chosen a dress with more material on top. Amazing the trouble women have to go through to get dressed and put on all this stuff. It's a lot easier being a guy. Spareribs

....."Don't you just hate it when someone shows up in the same dress"..... ...