Oh very good!!....Doug is doing that too....I don't remember what his "max" is...mine w/good form is only 27 so far....

Good morning all! Leslie -- there is some truth to that saying that where one door closes another opens. Your new door appears to have opened before the other one closed, which is less stressful all around. Good luck with getting all the details of your transition ironed out. R2 -- chunk that computer off a cliff and get out there in beautiful Estes Park! So glad you get a little away time, even if the "W" word is cropping up (ha...pun intended)! Joe and Mtnchk -- wowsa, are you kids doing that many pushups without stopping, or is that with rests between sets? Either way, wowsa! I did 12 / 12 /and 8 pushups on one of those half ball thingies turned upside down (the ball thingie, not me) yesterday after the rest of my workout and that was all she wrote! OK, so a friend supplied my contact info to a company that is looking for a CFO. One of their lines of business is wellness, so it's kind of intriguing. They contacted me the next day. I'm good with life right now, but figured it's worth a lookeysee. Something about interviews and such that makes me feel like it's a competion that I must "win". Gotta stop that and treat it more like running....just enjoy the experience, but not let the race or PR's, or "winning" a job that I don't even know if I want, be the end-all, be-all. I suppose it's time to stop ruminating about running as a metaphor for life and get to work now. Oh, running...yes...that's right...yesterdy was 40 minutes of elliptical + about the same on weights. Today is a 3 mile run...on the treadmill since it's still 100+ here, and not dropping below 80 at night.

(((sigh))) Change is good, right?

Leslie- one thing that I have learned is that the only certain thing in this life is that there will be alot of uncertainty!! You're a hard worker,smart, and not afraid to tough it out. I think that you will be fine.

A couple pics, home now, cut it short a day, run tommorow, catch up with ya all in a bit. Ed's trail I think I posted a picture from near this location in winter. had a group picnic here, Longs peak prominent in background Still some snow, the snow in this pic is the Trough on Longs Peak, just above that snow line is where I let my fear of hts get to me and tuirn around on last summers climb.

I see 'em. Beeeauuutiful! Wow ! Is that snow on the mountains? Re: the Pushup Challenge , I should mention that there's a group http://runningahead.com/groups/pushup/ here were Janell is good enough to track and graph them

Hey Everyone, I haven't checked out the push up site but I make my circuit training class do 2 sets of twenty every week. Check out this video, it's from my race last weekend http://www.teamwickedpissah.com/news/2008/7/29/jay-with-a-twist.html Be back in a minute.... MTA-I'm back but not for long-early morning tomorrow and need to get to bed but the results from my race have been posted. I don't think it's completely accurate but as it stands I finished 63 out of 218 finishers and it looks like 11 out of 33 women. I was awarded 2nd place master but the woman who is listed as first may have only done the half marathon which would make me first!!! I'll keep you posted....and there were only 10 women over 40. So if you look at 218 racers and only 33 of them women....I kicked a lot of guy butt!!! Check out the video-it's only 3 minutes and it shows the river, the beaver pond and the mud!

4 miles on my hill route 60 deg on its way to 100+, Something a little funky going on with my right heel but nothing to serious. I ran on it a little bit on the trails int the mtns. I am thinking I will walk the one mile with my dad at the local 1 mile/5k during the fair this weekend. Gotta hit the road in the big truck and do it to it like Will and Sonny used to do it to it............C Yas