Good Morning!

MikeE - so glad no one was hurt in that accident.

SteveP - great pics!

Back to work and school today, but at least we have a short week. 

No run for me today, 56 minutes of P90X Core Synergistics instead.  This is really a great whole-body workout.

Enjoy the gift!

0532. 28F. Breezy on the way back. Our Tuesday 5 miler; a simple out to Wawa and back. A starry, cold morning with 5 for 5.

Dear Runner of Rochester1 (since there are now 2),

No bets have been made re: Hokies v. Wolverines. But think about it. It would be quite an accomplishment if a turkey could beat a wolverine. My allegiance is forever to the Hokies of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and state university... but I must say that we have a healthy respect for Denard Robinson and the University of Michigan.

I do hold a glimmer of hope after watching a little duck beat a mighty badger last night... 

 

I do hold a glimmer of hope after watching a little duck beat a mighty badger last night... 

That was a great game, and Oregon played so well. Lots of offense and not-so-much defense, but the Ducks held 'em when they had to.

So glad that Ryan and his friends weren't hurt Mike. That car looked pretty bad.

Dave - sounds like you're staying under the radar. Good luck with your job situation.

5 miles on the eliptical this morning, 3 on the bike. Lots of new faces at the Y today, but like C-R said, they'll be gone by the end of March.  It's 4° here. At least the sun is out and the wind died down. Trying to mix things up, I signed up for a class to learn how to swim better and it starts tonight. They better have that water at a nice warm temperature!

Hey Holly - where did you get your P90X DVD's? We just put furniture in our family room and got a TV and DVD player for down there. Would love to get that set to work out at home. Is it really expensive?

A belated happy new year to everyone.  I’ve got plenty of catching up to do and will try to take at look at those end-of-the-year threads I missed.  I hope everyone had a nice holiday.

The legs were still on holiday today.  Sluggish 14.2 miles (8:45).

((((deez4boys}}}sorry about the cats missing their playmate.

Perchcreek, is the family nestled in their new home?

Dave59, sorry about the job situation. I hope all work out for you. How strange!

Hallar, good to see you again!

C_R, pool cover being uncovered is not a good thing to happen, but backyard hocky sounds like fun.

Twocat, I knew that you and your DW met while skiing, but how romantic that your first few seconds alone were while snowshoeing...and I am not surprised about that 100 yards  story.

 I stayed up way too late last night working on a project. My plan was to sleep-in, but my internal clock woke me up at my usual time (I must be growing old, or something). So, I got up out of bed, polished the kitchen sink and then went out for a soothing 2 easy miles. My legs are still feeling the extreme workout I had yesterday while snowshoeing, so running more would have been foolish. We sure had a blast yesterday! I am already longing forward to the weekend so I can do some more. 

Ohh, I forgot to mention the splendid sunrise I welcomed this morning! The whole horizon was red! Just beautiful.

Good morning!  I just spent 2 hours on the road--picking Eric from my XW's (ex-wife--is there a different abreviation?) house, transporting him from our northern suburb, through the city of St. Paul, into a southern suburb for school, and then back home along the sam route.  Hopefully, he's only got 3 more weeks before he has earned all of his credits so I don't have to keep doing this.  I don't have any idea how we would be working this out if I had a job, right now.  It's weird how things work out.

I can't believe your wife makes you help with stuff around the house - geech! 

I know!  I mean--she has 3 jobs--I have none--what's up with that?

I sure picked the right day to take off from running.  It's close to 0, this morning but it's supposed to be warming up and be in the 40's by Friday.  We sure are cheating winter, this year.  (OOPS!  Now I did it.)

After hearing some more of the details of Ryan's accident, it is amazing nobody was seriously injured.  The truck driver said that if Ryan had been up a little further, the car would have gone under the truck instead of bouncing off the wheels.  Ryan said he doesn't even know how the car went from the semi over to the ditch, right side up, and stopped.  It really is amazing.  I know that I've been dealt with a lot of stuff, lately, but ther is no doubt in my mind that God is watching over my family.

Okay--that's it--I have to do something productive, today. 

Good Morning!

MikeE - that sounds very scary! Glad Ryan is okay.

I haven't been around since the 23rd. Just logged in all my runs for the past week or so (Hey! I actually had runs to log in for a change!). Nothing major, but at least I was out there every day except one. And instead of running that day, we went on 2 walks instead.  My year end mileage was pretty poor though. The first half started out great, the 2nd half stunk.

CNY, glad to hear Hudson is doing so well on pacing and leash running!  B&B are not so good at that and I know it's partly, okay, ALL , my fault. It's just been so much easier and less stressful for me to run the trails on our property, where I don't have to leash them, they can run at their pace, do whatever they want, etc. I haven't put on a leash on them in couple months or maybe more now. On the one hand though, they are excellent at voice recall and if/when they do get too far ahead of me, I change directions I'm running and as soon as they notice, they turn around to catch up with me. But it's just been so much to watch them play and chase each other and sniff out whatever they want in the woods, that for the time being I'm content with leash free running.

I know I've missed so much news and running and racing from you all over the past 10 days or so since I last logged in. Wish I had the time to catch up.

here's a couple pics from our trail running:

heading back down the mountain to home

Almost done with all the pre-packing laundry (yes, all the sheets and towels have to be washed as well, don't ask), .

 I like to wash our sheets before I go on a trip too.  Don't always fit it in, but it's nice to come home to a clean bed.  I also unpack as soon as I get home, unlike Cindy who may go a week or more before she unpacks her bag(s).  I don't get it.