Joe - nice quote! I covered about the same distance as you did yesterday, although it wasn't raining. 

OM - hope the job thing works out. 

Leslie - sounds like you had an ok time, after all! Hope your luggage finds its way home. 

HItting the road tomorrow to see friends in Seattle and then in Portland. My friend in Portland says there are some great trails to run close to her house, really looking forward to that! 

Have a good week everyone!

OM - Congratulations!!  Woo Hoo!!

Joe - Enjoy AZ.  Might be slightly warmer there than in your neck of the country.

Arla - Portland = Forest Park.  I hope those are the trails your friend is talking about.  Forest Park is the mecca for trail running, and I believe it's the largest urban forest in the U.S.  It's where I ran my very first 50k a couple of years ago.  I haven't had the chance go back, but it's beautiful and well worth checking out.  If you have a small camera, take it with you.  My buddies who have the 3nonjoggers podcast run there all the time.  My goal is to get back there next May for the Forest Park 50k through PCTR.

I finally got my luggage this morning at work, but it was last night when getting ready for bed I realized I didn't even have an extra toothbrush.  Yuck!  First thing I did upon arrival at work was brush my teeth for about 10 minutes.  With no makeup, no hairdo stuff, no deodorant, and no toothbrush, surprisingly, I'm not looking my usual Cosmopolitan gorgeous self.  Thankfully, there are no clients scheduled to come in today.

(PS - I at least rectified the whole deodorant thing once my suitcase arrived, much to the relief of my office mates.)

It's quiet in here . . . .

Hi, Ev!

Hi to whoever is lurking!

Hi to the rest of my running peeps!

1 hr of pool running tonight.  I'm trying different techniques to (a) make it not quite so boring and (b) get a harder worker.  One of the moves is to keep my hands up besides my head (as if I was going to do a crunch) and run in place as hard as possible for 1 minute.  That, combined with having to keep your butt from drifting up because of the floatation belt, makes for a good core/cardio workout.  I interspersed that with backwards running, sprinting, and just plain ole let's-get-this-done running.

Glad to see you throwing yourself into the pool running, Leslie.

Unfortunately, I have no choice.   I did, however, get to do half my workout in the deep end swim lane.  The other part of the deep end was being taken over by the hordes of little kids taking swim lessons.  The nerve of it all, I tell ya . . .

50 min of core/strength training this a.m.  My core and limbs were still a bit tired from my pool run last night, but I got it done.  What's with the NBA playoffs being on at 5:30 in the morning?!?  They're screwing up my workout TV watching.

Have a great Wednesday ~

Hope no one else has the no running excuse for not saying much. 

Nope - 'cept for yesterday, when I was trying to catch up on some of my reading....

been mostly running btwn rain squalls...got to go here on Monday

...then the rain came back in with a vengence for the rest of the day....not as bad as has been for other parts of the country! {{{prayers for the folks in OK & MO & such!!}}

Congrats on the job OM!!  Very kewl!

Gotta go get the lawn shortened & a few more things stuck into the mud (dy patch I might call a garden) before the next line comes in!

Have a Great Week everyone!!!

C

One quick way to get the little snots (and I say that lovingly) out of the pool......Baby Ruth.

Hmmm - It's a thought.

I had a good, hard pool running workout.  I talked to one of the lifeguards about the water "dumbbells," which added a whole new dimension to things.  Some great resistance work for the arms while running.  He also told me about a good core workout -  I took off the flotation belt and straight-armed the dumbbells at my side, then tried to keep my body perfectly straight without losing balance, fluttering the feet, etc.  It's harder than it sounds, and I'm thinking the difficulty would be increased if I used the smaller dumbbells.

Switching things up a lot made the hour go by a lot faster than normal.  I also lucked out and had the deep end lane to myself the whole time.  Yea!

Hey folks. Thanks for the congrats on the new job. You all know I just had surgery on Tuesday, right? I forget what I've posted where... but yeah, spent Tuesday night in the hospital, came home Wednesday, had my post-op appointment Thursday, and finally was allowed to shower today. At the appointment yesterday, I really couldn't see how I looked, so I asked MrOM as he sat across from me in the room. Best thing he could've ever said to me: "you should've seen the other guy!". Yeah, I'm all misshapen and bruised and such... but definitely on the mend, so I can't complain one bit. And the fact that I have this new job at the running store waiting for me once I'm good and healed (two weeks should make a world of difference, I'm sure), is just the perfect icing on the cake.

So yeah, no running for a while, but that's cool: life is truly good.

Happy weekend to all!