This morning was an easy 3.5 mile recovery run after yesterday's Intervals. Avg pace 10:09 min/mile, avg HR 121. 2008 is almost in the books. If you're going to be partying tonight, enjoy yourself but have a designated driver available. If you're that person, beware of the other drivers. Many will drive anyway. We want you all back here to keep posting. Bill

Last evening I noticed that I had run a total of 1800 mi since I started running again in late Feb. 2006. But, I still had 10 mi to do, so I got out there early with Renee as my husband had to be on the road this morning. Was dressed right for the first couple miles, then the 20 mph wind died and the sun came out. I ended up changing my pants to shorts at mi. 7 since I was running by my house. The pants were so soaked -- running in them felt like the goofy relays we used to swim on swim team for exhibition where we swam in cotton sweat pants. Not a comfortable feeling! Hope everyone will have a nice New Year's Eve. I might have a friend coming over. Otherwise, we're just hanging out and playing train and race cars with the kids. And probably watching a couple of Warren Miller flicks on the big screen.

Where is everyone else? Yes, very windy now -- glad we got our run done before the wind started gusting like this. I had set out to do 10 miles with 5 miles at tempo pace, but the body was not ready for that. Lack of fuel from the fasting on Monday or whatever, but after a mile I recognized it wasn't a day for a hard workout and dialed it back. 5.1 miles, 45:17, 8:53/mi, AHR 141 You all be careful tonight, like Bill says, ok? We're going out to dinner for our anniversary (anniversary is tomorrow but we have trouble finding a place open on New Years Day) and will maybe pop into an open house party with some of our homebrew friends.

Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile but once again things are just so very hectic both at home and at work. As far as our son Eric – after a day and a half in the hospital they sent him home (he and his sons spent Christmas Eve with us) saying that he wasn’t contagious and that the there wasn’t a whole lot he could do other than weather the storm so to speak. Well now we have learned that his own physician doesn’t think he had meningitis at all and has sent Eric to a neurologist for further tests as he thinks Eric had a seizure...that doesn't explain why they would diagnosis him with Viral Meningitis though. I still get my runs in even when I am right out straight I always find that helps me relieve any stress etc. We have had some pretty unusually warm weather of late and almost all our snow had melted, but alas it is snowing again as I type and we are expecting anywhere from 3-6 inches of the white stuff which should make for an interesting New Years Day run tomorrow. Wednesday - 4 miles - 30:52 - (7:43) - 7:55 - 7:56 - 7:55 - 7:06 Thursday - 10.11 miles - 1:31:31 - (9:03) - Avg HR 128 Max HR 156 – Sunny, 42 & windy Friday - 4.01 miles - 31:29 - (7:50) - Avg HR 133 Max HR 144 – Sunny, 32 & no wind Saturday - 8.57 miles - 1:10:23 - (8:13) - Avg HR 132 Max HR 140 - Cloudy & 34 Sunday - 8.18 miles - 1:07:45 - (8:17) - Avg HR 124 Max HR 142 - Cloudy & 46 Monday - 5.02 miles - 42:13 - (8:24) - Avg HR 126 Max HR 138 - Cloudy & 38 Tuesday - 5.5 miles - 40:16 - (7:20) - Avg HR 129 Max HR 169 Cloudy & 26 1 mile warm up - 3 x 1 mile w/ 1/4 mile recovery jog - 1 mile cool down 8:30 - 6:16 - 2:15 - 6:14 - 2:15 - 6:08 - 8:34 Today – 5 miles on the schedule and probably won’t get to post since DW and I will be heading out to dinner and a movie to ring in the New Year. We should be home and in bed long before the ball drops ringing in the 2009! Happy New Year everyone, and stay safe out there…if you are going to a party PLEASE don’t drink and drive…our agency is noticing a pretty good spike in our drunk driving arrests this season and the tests are coming back much higher than they usually do, a sign of the times I guess, just not a good sign!

Happy New Year to everyone! And Happy Anniversary to the Beers - very cool day for an anniversary. I am ending this year on a better note than it started - at least I am running. I have no idea how many miles I ran this year as I haven't started logging until just recently. As others have mentioned, the wind is just howling today so I opted for 5 easy miles on the TM and a weight session. We are headed over to a neighbor's house tonight to celebrate New Years so we will just be walking down the block. The kids are invited too and will enjoy getting to stay up and watch the ball drop. I'm intending to run tomorrow so hopefully tonight won't be too much fun! Congrats to Nono on 1800 miles this year. Tramps, glad to hear the marriage is still holding up in face of your dw's running. Sounds like she added a little speed this morning and did well with it. Lou, smart to dial it back. Those procedures take a fair amount out of a person. Have fun with all the running Ilene. The folks at the gym were trying to convince me to run the Hair of the Dog 5K tomorrow in evening wear. Apparently, there is a formal wear division as well as a pajama division. I think I'd do better in pajamas.

morning! aww Ilene, what a sweetie. I missed your 'yesterday'. Wiill look. Nice way to celebrate. I think I"ll run tonight but just a little, & will have a trail run in the morning. enjoy yourself. Happy pre-anniversary, Beers. Tramps, good news. tell DW good job. I want to hear Econo's mix too. Nono how's your back? thanks for my healing hug the other day. I think it helped. 5.37 miles this morning, 9:43 ave. pace, 6:31 max. (faster laps at the end) ahr 163, ,max 182. miles were 10:39, 9:57, 9:36, 9:21, 9:18. then 2 sets on the weight machines. I hope you all enjoy whatever you do tonight. maybe a few stories tomorrow? mta... got busy at work & missed all the posts post Ilene, & will catch up in a bit. just skimmed.. Maine, I'm so glad to hear from you. best of luck with the tests for your DS.

9.25 easy miles this morning after two days off. Sunday's 15 miler wiped me out and left me too sore. So this is a recovery week, and I did feel better today. We've got a busy day tomorrow, so we will not overdo it tonight. Happy New Year to all our running friends here!

Nice workout Mariposai. I see that you are planning a SIX mile recovery run so you can get to a mileage goal huh? Spareribs

You are VERY observant for your old age ohhhhhhhh wiseone. Yes, I will run a slow 6, very slowly . I love it when someone is paying attention to my runs...at least I feel more confident with what I am doing. Now that I pay attention to my recovery run by not making it to long or too fast I find myself recovering faster from my key workouts and it has allow me to cover more miles with fresher legs....