Wow - Slo_Hand, I'm not sure that's the type of "experience" you want your new driver to have! It's really fortunate that neither of you were hurt and there wasn't more serious damage done to your truck. How is your DS handling all this? Did you go home and have a stiff drink?! Intervals this morning. A mile warmup at 9:51 followed by 30 minutes of intervals, treadmill set at 7.2 work and 6.2 rest, alternating 2 minutes of each. Ended with a mile cool down at 9:31 and some inclinded lunges and core work. It felt good to break a good sweat! I see Slum Dog took most of the Academy Awards. A good movie, but I think there were others that got slighted this year (like Gran Torino - loved Clint Eastwood in that). Have a great start to the new week everyone.

Wow - Slo_Hand, I'm not sure that's the type of "experience" you want your new driver to have! It's really fortunate that neither of you were hurt and there wasn't more serious damage done to your truck. How is your DS handling all this? Did you go home and have a stiff drink?!

Jlynne, I'm heading for the bourbon bottle now from just reading the story.... Ahhh, woke up at 4 a.m. with my throat raw from my little cold. Wind was howling, so I scrapped my outdoor run. Gonna crank up the heat at lunchtime and run real slow on the treadmill to sweat out some of this stuff.

Geez, Slo Hand. That is a scary one. Hope the DS is not too shaken now. No run for me today. I felt tired all afternoon yesterday after the sorta hard 20 miler. Slept 10 hours last night and feeling better this morning. My body is definitely tuned into MP, but the stamina/endurance needs to improve to get that last 10K done. Yesterday's overall marathon winner blazed in so fast that he passed up the escort motorcycles and he had no Tape ready for him. So they had to reenact it for the winner's photo. Of course the time on the clock shows incorrectly as a (very slow for him) 3:10 time. I recall this happened to Jdmom3 in Cleveland a few years back. The temp at the start was a fine 58 degrees, but it got warm and humid later. 2 dozen people were treated for heat related issues. Ahh the joys of running on Florida ... Bill

Glad that was just a learning experience Slo_. Good story for sure! 3 Magical Healing Miles with Tory in 30:37 (10:12 pace, AHR 134) followed by 5 x 10 sec hill sprints. Legs feel great today!

Yikes Slo!! That brought back flash backs of my taking my family into the ditch on a very stormy winter's night. I thought for sure I had killed my dad as his head had hit the front window. He was bleeding and had blacked out for a few minutes. Long story short - everyone was okay and the only damage tot he car was a broken tail light. It really shook me up for a long time though. I hope your DS is handling it okay. I'm taking a rest day after the grueling runs I put in over the weekend. For the past two weeks I've been getting in short runs on the treadmill instead of taking a day off. I think it is time for a rest now. Kind of like these two: Happy Monday!

hope you feel better nono. SueT, your training is going to well...I am proud of you girl. PDR, great long run yesterday...you are looking gooddddddddddd. Enkie, please give me a slice of that artisan bread you made the other day. Francesca, are you all recovered after you week in Seattle last week? Hi tramps!!!!!!!!! I had fun night last night as I watched my 16 y/o and his friend cook lasagna and greek salad for their friends who just happened to be girls. I was all teary eyed when I went to the dinning room and saw the table properly set with the best china, napkins, gobbles and candles...yeap...all those years of practice is paying off. New snow around here. 5 easy miles at pre-dawn. Will do some stretching during lunch.

SLO_HAND a lot more "exciting" than a typical run I must say. Glad to hear nobody was hurt and that you gave some cows a story to relate to each other in the days ahead! As to the spare tire, you might want to check out Tire Rack before buying one at your local retailer. They were a catalog firm and now they are an internet retailer. Anyway, I have found that their prices are often substantially below those you will find locally, even with shipping and all other additional costs taken into account. Jlynne intervals on a TM my worst nightmare! Congratulations on getting them done. Craneium so how much damage? Nothing like teenagers learning to drive in slick conditions! nonoruns you are the only gal I know who drinks bourbon! I can tell we would get along just great! A good bourbon is basically as good as good scotch at half the price in my humble opinion. Oh yes, lots of rain around here yesterday. But since I cannot run feel free to visit us in CT! SueT48 from your post a few days ago, alas you are right I am insanely jealous you all can run and all I can do is couch potato. Nice TM run this morning. Well for a TM run. Yea, I am real sorry the snow skipped us here in CT. Been crying my eyes out all day! [editor: sarcasm is so unbecoming. Tsk, tsk.] breger1 I read about your attempt to pull a Rosie Ruiz in that marathon! You should join my relay team, "The Rosie Ruiz Fan Club" you would fit right in! Holly S. nice little TM run. evanflein wow 19 miles in some pretty cold temps! The fade could be a combination of the weather, hills, and just one of those days. Mariposai hmm you said Spareribs prescribed 3 recovery miles, not that you did 3 recovery miles . . . enquiring minds want to know. wildchild sounds like you had a fun run yesterday -- dogs, and kids! Next week maybe dogs and kids at the same time? deez4boyz good luck with your version of the Galloway plan. I have used his plan on occasion and I think it is really good. My DW now routinely walks all water stops in a race and finds it is a big help. busiman very nice 21 mile run and on International Long Run Day so very appropriate. Peter NC not quite so nice here in CT. We had rain, rain, rain. Glad you had good weather for your nearly HM run in the hills. Teresadfp ah college visits. I wish I could say I remember them well. My only memory is of visiting Penn and the professor, yes professor, told me it was an elite school for people who had nothing to be elite about. What a sales person! It is true the facilities at larger schools are better. But there is more to college than the physical plant. A small school will mean closer friends going forward in life. Also, the quality of the track team will ultimately not be very important to your kid's lives. For my two cents, I would just find a place where you think they will do as well as possible academically and the track team and facilities will be whatever they are. enkephalin hey, 10 miles is never wimpy! Take that back! halllar nothing like the great, cold, windy outdoors to help out on a run! hopeful4ever it looks like it is not yet time to put away those Yak Tracks. On my front let me see. My DW went to the gym yesterday to do 3 miles on the TM. A brave and tenacious soul she is. On the medical front: I have dueling doctors with dueling diagnosis. The neurologist thinks the problem is mechanical. The orthopedist that it is neurological. The compromise is to run an EMG on my on Wednesday, and then schedule an MRI if that comes up negative. I did some research the other day and I can see why they are battling. My symptoms do not really match up neatly with what you would expect for either a mechanical or neurological problem. I have not run for over two weeks, which should have resulted in substantial improvement if this is mechanical and it has not. On the other hand, there are several ancillary problems that I should have if this is neurological and I have none of them. Oh well . . . Now on the indirectly really good news front: I am the advisor for a group of students in a security analysis competition. The U.S. contest is run by New York Society of Security Analysts and my kids (err, . . . kids as in 20 somethings) WON! I am so proud of them. This Friday they get to ring the opening bell for the Nasdaq (yep, it is televised) and at the end of next month head off to London for the international face off across the winning teams from each continent. I give them good odds to win that too!