Kelly - Congratulations! You da whoa-man!! I'll have to look at the video a bit later. Farmer Jim - Beautiful pics. Don't know why they didn't show for me yesterday. Cindy - Good news on the foot. And only charged half price for the visit?? Sweet!! My day started out bad last night, and it has only gotten worse. First - A guy backed right into me last night at the video store. Whacked my bumper good. Haven't told The Hub yet. Second - Found out I made a HUGE error with my side client - to the tune of almost $5,000. I made some double payments. All I could do was leave a phone message for him last night and leave a note this morning. I haven't heard from him yet, but #@$%*^&@#$!! Besides making such an enormous error, it's from his client trust account. I just hope, hope, hope none of the checks have bounced. Third - Then this morning I get an email from our tax preparer regarding a notice we got about a week ago from the IRS. Seems the lady we'd been using the last few years (same firm, but retired now) wrongly reported our IRA contributions since 2005!! Double ##$%*#&#!!!!!! I can't believe this. So now I'm on pins and needles, waiting for two phone calls I don't want to take. On the exercise front - did 3 miles this a.m. and 40 minutes of core/strength/knee. Didn't help my mood any.

>>>>Borrowing this from another thread/forum<>World's Strongest Dad [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right? And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life. This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. "He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.'' But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.'' "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.'' Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.'' That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!'' And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. ``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year. Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried. Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time. ``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.'' And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life. Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. ``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.'' And the video is below.... click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4B-r8KJhlE

Kelly - what a big adventure! Looks like a hoot! I've gotta get myself signed up for one of these trail runs. Leslie - take a deep breath...and just continue on. I'm having a fun time with the IRS myself, my accountant's mistake, and he's wanting to bill me $250 for writing a letter to the IRS explaining HIS mistake (which, by the way, he didn't own up to in his letter). Nothing to do but wait until it all works itself out. Carol - super good news on your hub! That Hoyt story gets me every time... Finally got my running mojo back yesterday, first time I've enjoyed my run in over a week, came complete with a nice little "high". Ahhh...yes, I really do like this running thing, I was beginning to wonder! I have a few pics from my bike trip to post, the best are from Beartooth Pass in Montana and from Grand Teton Nat. Park., but first gotta do summer school finals, then it's off to see my mom and brother for a few days in LA. Damn, eventually I'll get caught up with y'all. Arla

I been trying to get caught up with work after bein' gone, been readin' tho. Leslie your bad streak will end, just keep doning whatcha do and you'll work thru it. It's temporary, and on the job front I'm sure that will all work out also. Keep the faith. Carol its great when you set yourself up to control your own destiny and by the looks of it you have. I had an employee that would always whine about his bad luck, I told him don't leave things to chance and call it bad luck when things go badly. Everyone has their share of bad luck that you just have to endure like I told Leslie, for me its bad luck if I get hailed, but if I don't have insurance thats just poor management. Cindy great news on the foot issue, Lynda has similar issues finding wide enough shoes, I'm the opposite(narrow). WTG Doug on the run and x train programs. Any decent half marys in early sep or mid nov in CO? Joe glad Buddy got to go at least part way with ya. Kudos on the pushups. I think I could do about 5 ;-). Arla looking foward to the pics and hopefully a trip report???? Living with an attorney with an accounting degree has its perks sometimes, we have pretty good sets of books. She is a pretty mean John Deere driver also!!

Any decent half marys in early sep or mid nov in CO? !!

have you checked out this site? http://www.coloradorunnermag.com/calendar the Park to Park 10 miler also gets some kudos from some of the locals down here.... I can pop over to the Denver area group & see what folks over there say...you're welcome over there too ...you met 3 of those folks @ BB http://runningahead.com/groups/DAR/Forum & what shoes has Lynda found to work well??? I'm back in Saucony - ProGrid Omni 7 Ultimate, D width...think I'm going to chat w/my internet shopping guru friend to see what she can find online....Doc suggested men's shoes BUT apparently I have small feet for a "man!" cause I keep getting that "deer in the headlights" look from the sales associates when I ask for Men's size 6! Boot camp this am was 1/2 mile track w/u, bunches of jumping jacks (of which I cheated w/lots of breaks cause I'm supposed to minimize forefoot impact...) & dead lifts to failure....I think I made it to 145 lbs..one of the women asked if "this was a good workout" to which coach said "NO" but it has different benefits..trying to mix up aerobic, anaerobic & this type (I don't remember what he called it..)...IOW I heard- "go do your regular w/o, etc".....so I went for 3.66 more hilly hot miles....84*F @ 830am already!! AHR over 155 @ that temp for me. now have my foot planted in an "ice bag" Oh, News says "Denver has the highest percentage of Baby Boomers of any other metro-city w/32.8% btwn 35 - 54 yoa"

Hi Lynda!

Joe - Over 200 miles in one month?!? You and Kelly - you guys are my heroes! Guess what I got as a present tonight?? Anti Monkey Butt Powder!! The Hub's work just started carrying it. Too funny! I'm taking it to Headlands Hundred next weekend. Somebody may need it around 2:00 am.

4 slow sweaty sucky miles. Lynda and I worked til 7 last nite then cleaned up and went to town. Went to a show at our county fair with a young up and comer, kinda old time rodeo dance music. http://www.jimriceband.com/Very good listening with a couple of crown royals, so it was midnight when we got to bed then 3 oclock I feel a tick crawling across my face Yuuuuuuuuuck. It had hitched a ride from our "Ticksville Farm" and apparently tagged along even after showering. Anyway had a hard time getting to back to sleep with the creepy crawlys then woke up feeling crummy from not enough sleep, too much weed pollen yesterday, and probably didn't need the Crown either. Joe fantastic PR monthly mileage!!!! Kelly congrats on the win, yaaaay Leslie you are among friends rant on. c youse I better get to work.