evan, congrats on the weekly mileage PR. roch, the route you posted looks a lot more interesting and exciting than the cornfields and cow pastures around Kingston. Peter, congrats to you and your wife on your anniversary. wildchild, my thoughts are with your dad and the rest of the family. Nice long runs for bike (and a great one it was), PBJ, breger, Peter, Franc, and WRFB (with intervals). This morning, the temperature was in the low 40s (good), it was windy (not so good), and there was a light rain (sprinkles, drizzles, ?) (not too bad). Unfortunately, it was one of those days when my legs were extra "dead" and my breathing was extra hard for no reason I could ascertain. I got through 4 miles before wimping out. It took a bit under 40:30 for a 10:10 pace. I do think, though, that I smoked a few couch potatos. Hopefully, I will redeem myself next time. A good day and good runs for all. TomS

As the saying goes Tramps ... "Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it". (Congrats! I think ...) Bill

Do you get to run it with DToce?

I'm a winner today. Did my 11 mile MLR in 1:51:30-10:09/mi. IRC 54 and no wind. I did the first six miles at the track and then finished up on the streets. What really makes me a winner is that no one tried to run me over out on the road for a change. Tim: Glad to see that your return to running is going so well. Thanks for starting us out with your inspirational posts the last few days. Tramps: Congrats on getting into the Mt. Washington Race. Sounds like quite a challenge, good luck. Have a winning day everyone, Bruce

Tramps, sounds like a walk in the park... You don't get to run back down? Rest day, coinciding with a pouring rain day, which is like a double negative cancelling itself out.

I'm a winner--literally! Just found out I got in the Mt. Washington Road Race this year. Third time's the charm. http://www.mountwashingtonroadrace.com/index.html @#*^&! Now I have to run this!

Hey Tramps I guess I'm a winner too, I got in again this year as well. I would love the chance to hook up with you even if only briefly before the race. Your gonna love it, the recovery is instantaneous compared to a marathon! Of course the cold beers after the race are great too. Today's run: 10.01 miles - 1:20:04 - 8:00 - Avg HR 135 Max HR 192 Sunny, windy & 51 degrees Started slow and eased into 6 sub 8:00 miles finishing with 3 slow miles, the legs are still feeling last Sunday's 18 miler and I have a 20 miler this Sunday so I didn't want to overdo it.

9.1 miles this morning. Supposed to do 6 this afternoon. We'll see.

Tim, I am so glad my 14-year-old is not able to drive because THAT is what he'd be whining for all day long. Enjoy... do you get to drive it? Tramps, yeah, congrats... good luck with that. Seriously, those sorts of races can be a lot of fun if you don't have the performance goal in mind. A meet up with Bob would be fun, too! Mariposai, I'd like to think I'm recovered from my trip but I can't seem to shake this "wanna go to bed" feeling. Could be that I just jumped right into a ton of backed up work both here and at home, and the weather has been nice but the temps are cold... and it's been windy. Lots of things that make me want to whine more than I should... But it'll be ok. I am taking Friday off of work so that'll help with the catching up at home thing. Won't do much for the drowning at work thing, but oh well. I did get in a nice 6.6 mile run last night. Meant to be an easy run, but ended up with 8:29 avg pace and most of it (first 4.5 miles) was just under 8:20 pace. Ok, most of that was downhill and with a tailwind, but I'll take it. The part that sucked was the last couple of miles... uphill into the wind that made me stop and turn around a couple of times. I'd stand there huddled on the path with my back to the wind, holding my fleece gloved hands up to my frozen cheeks... Twice I had people stop their cars and ask if I was ok. I must've looked pathetic. Got it done though, and drained the hot water heater in the shower to warm up. Where the hell is spring, anyway??