Good Morning. WAY too tired this morning. I never realized how tiring the experience of having company can be. They left yesterday afternoon and I ended up falling asleep on the couch watching TV. Then I got up and staggered to bed to sleep 8 solid hours.......which is VERY unusual for me. I am not complaining, as it was good to have some company but just surprised at how tired I got. I think it was all about the change of schedule for me. I did manage to get in a couple of miles yesterday afternoon, which was fine. It was meant to be a slow run and I succeeded with that goal. I hope you have a great week. Several are in the midst of tapers, eithe pre or post race. Others are nursing nagging injuries that affect what they can or cannot do for running. In all cases, people are thinking and talking "RUNNING" and that is what we enjoy hearing about. So, please do let us know what is happening. Questions? Ask away. Are you trying something new? Let us hear about it. Have you read or heard about something that would be of interest to us? Share it with us. Of course, we also will entertain the lastest puppy story, family occasion, work incident, or personal situation. I NEVER repeat gossip, so listen carefully the first time I share it. Good luck with your week. I hope this is a good one for each of you. Joey

Puppies? Who keeps talking about puppies?? Two of the girls kicking back in the corner. Vista - company does make you tired. I'm sure you enjoyed every minute of it though. Thanks for the thoughful start up for what would otherwise be a typical Monday. Rest day for me. Woo Hoo! ~Mary

Love those puppy pictures, Mary. Keep 'em coming. Strength training for me today -- PDR and I even worked out how to share the dumbells (no comments about dumbells, please). Is it Monday already? Oh well, off to work.

New forum rule: nobody is allowed to post to the daily until Vista starts it off. Nice job again as always, Joey. Holy cow, Tim. That's a heck of a week's mileage. Rest day for me too, so I'll post what I did over the weekend. Friday after work did 18 miles on the bike (2 laps around the local park road). Sunday I ran my longest in several months: 6.2 miles in 1:04. That's not quite running a 10K in less than my age, but close enough for now. I ran it with my club and enjoyed chatting with some new acquaintances as we went along. I was up in the capital (Lansing) on Saturday for a special showing of some of Michigan's regimental flags from the Civil War. It was cool to see these actual flags that had been carried into battle over 140 years ago, still tattered and with bullet holes and, in some cases, bloodstains. A real piece of American history. Good running to everyone this week, and I hope your weather's more spring-like than what we've been having lately (brrrr!).

..roch//.....we have soldiers from the 1st Michigan buried in our cemetary at Hopkinsville. also Confederates from Alabama, and Texas.....this is from the Battle of Perryville, amazing that they came from so far off.... .......the Confederate Headstones are pointed ''so the Yankees can't sit on 'em'' so my Grandfather told me..... ====== ......but I digress..... 22-min on the versalimber,,,,,did some Deck Sealing and POT moving yesterday (and The Back knew it......drat) .......going easy for 48-hours...... ................good running guys...........try not to sit on any Confederate Headstones....

Happy rest day all! In my case my non-running day will have to wait due to my travel schedule. So today I went out for a 15 mile run. After about 4 miles I decided it was time to work on my pacing a bit, seeing as I have not run a race or done any speedwork in two months. All I can say is I am really far from where I used to be. Despite "pushing it" a bit I never cracked an 8:15 mile and finished with an overall pace of 8:47. I tell you bodies just suck! You spend all that time working on your racing, get hurt, take a couple of months off, come back and find that you are starting from way down in a hole. Who designed these things we walk around in anyway! biketm as to Bob I have had sporadic contact with him. He seems to be doing quite well. Last I hear from him the surgery seemed to have gone better than anybody had a right to expect. He is training for the Missoula Half Marathon and it seems to be going well. I looked at his "easy" day splits on his log and all I can say is I hope my hard days are as fast as his easy ones someday!

Hey all. Back after a great vacation week, but a return trip from he**. The flight timelines were ugly and I'll not bore you with them. Suffice it to say that I may get back on eastern time and catch up on my sleep by about Thursday or so. Rochrunner my family has a civil war sword stamped with an 1860 date on it that we have been passing down from generation to generation. I always thought it was so cool. I remember taking it into my 6th grade class for a show-and-tell day. I'd probably be arrested and expelled if I tried that today. Peter amazing grass and landscaping. Are you willing to come down and do mine? I'd pay. Gladly ... I am experiencing the typical, and not unexpected, post-marathon running apathy as I reassess where I want to go from here. I've been looking back over my training log for the last couple of years. And while I see a very solid improvement in mileage and distances and a tremendous amount of running knowledge gained, I see very little improvement pace-wise. Everyone has been saying I'm getting faster and improving, but the numbers are telling a different story. I may have been overestimating my abilities and paces for awhile now. Wishful thinking probably. At any rate, I have a history of working really hard at something, wanting to do things the right way, achieving some quick success but then plateauing and not improving much after that. Solid work ethic, but limited talent. Same thing seems to be happening with my running. So rather than continue a frustrating pattern, I think I need to change things up. I'm going to work on shorter distances and speed for a while and hopefully get a bit faster. Then I may try a marathon again. That is open to serious debate though. I don't have a plan as of yet. It is admittedly a bad time of year for me to be doing this, seeing as the weather down here will make it tough to see any improvement at all. It was 94 degrees yesterday for example. So I may ease off for the summer and hit it hard in the fall/winter. Or I may just run through the H&H and deal with it. Stay tuned. Bill

6 easy miles with T this morning,overcast skys and 53 degrees... DW and DD#1 leave for Knoxville early tomorrow morning for DI Global Finals at U of T...very exciting...