Ditto!!! Hope you have an awesome Turkey day!!

Thanks, Pam! Same to you. I plan to eat plenty of pumpkin pie + whatever else I have to eat to earn more pie.

Boobs?

You know that's what I meant. Oh. Sorry. Rhetorical question.

Just throwin' that out there. When you going for a run at Western States?

ROFL. Um. Not for a long, long time. I need to trip on some rocks and roots to cause enough brain damage to sign up for something like that. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Ghost Town 38.5 or a local 50 miler on trails first. Either of those two should cause me enough brain damage to consider a 100k.

Mike, looks like you are no worse for the wear from your amazing ultra. I'm happy to see you bounced back pretty darn well! Hope you enjoyed replenishing those calories on Thanksgiving!

Thanks, Bob! I had a great time replenishing calories. Trying to keep from over-replenishing!!! How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Looks like you did your first 10 miler in quite some time!!! Looking good. Keeping my fingers crossed for you. Regarding the bounce-back - yeah things are feeling pretty good so far - just trying to keep things easy this week and next to get in some good recovery before Cowtown training starts. I do have one toenail that has gone mostly purplish-black - but no pain there. My kids think its cool that I will probably lose the nail.

Thanks, Bob. Haha on the calories. When I weighed in this morning, I was up 6.2 pounds. Doh! I want to drop 15# before Cowtown - so now is the time to start working on calorie cutting. Anyway, your pics in Pam's log reminded me that I meant to post these pics of the trail I just started running. ------------------------------ The kids are out of school all week, so I took off the week too. We tried to go to the zoo, but it was waaay too crowded, so we hit Cedar Creek Preserve to check out some more of the trails. It's really cool that they have this much wilderness carved out in an urban area. I had forgotten about this warning sign. My daughter grabbed my hand, my son said "cool". The trail starts out with a nice downhill. Another snake warning sign. My son wanted his picture with this one - so he could show his friends at school. He was hoping to see a real snake all afternoon. About a half a mile down the trail, we came across a small wooden tower built by an Eagle Scout. We took this shot from it. Here's some "stairs" that I ran down the last time I was here. I'm not sure if my son is just paying attention to his footing or is already dreading the climb back up. Watch out for cacti! There were tons of these all along the trail. Looks like I have a junior trail runner in training! Still looking around for snakes. Wow! To be a kid again. So much energy. We were just walking/hiking today, but she says she wants to come back with me the next time I run the trails. Another Eagle Scout project is a dock like structure at the "Cattail Pond". A view from the little dock. My son is dreading the uphill. He also didn't see any snakes. To this, my daughter said "cool". Both for the uphill and the lack of snakes.

Nice Mike! Thanks for posting those! Those trails look great for running! What a nice resource you have there. It sounds like your son and daughter are opposite when it comes to hiking/running and reptiles. I'll bet that leads to some interesting dynamics between the two of them.

Thanks, Bob! They are fun to run on - I've only seen 2 or 3 out of the 10 miles so far - time to explore next time I'm out there! The kids are definitely opposite in many ways makes things interesting to say the least!

Good solid week you had Mike, especially the hillwork today! Keep this up and you'll be setting PR's left and right!

Are you doing just the full or doing the Goofy Challenge?

There's that word "just" again! You are pretty funny, Mike! I'm being Dopey and doing the Goofy Challenge plus the 5k that they have on the Friday before it. Getting up to run that early three days in a row will be the hardest part I think!

I've decided that I'm going to run a 50 miler next year. The only question is when and where. jlynnbob has suggested that I go for it at Palo Duro in October vs. the one I was looking at in December. So I'm starting to lay down plans that include 3-4 months of low HR training after Cowtown as sort of an "off season" with little to no racing. Lynn has offered to help plan my 50 miler training - so when we get through working out those details - I'll add that to my plan after my low HR training is over.

50 miles.... I can't even imagine. Looking forward to following you along (in your blog, not on the road!)