There's a 50 miler in PA..... Run around Tussey Mountain...... http://www.tusseymountainback.com/index.html

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

Sweet that sounds like fun, Bob! Well, not the waking up early - but Dopey/Goofy Challenge sounds fun. I'd love to do that one day. Heh. At the moment, I can't imagine 50 miles either. Of course I couldn't imagine 26 when I signed up for the marathon. Today was the first run of the Pfitz plan. A nice uneventful 8 miler. I am sitting here stuffed to the gills with good food - we went to the sister in law's house for Haunakkah (sp?). She and my wife's brother both went to culinary school and he has been working as a chef for years now. It is always a treat to eat at their house.

Thanks, Pam! Have fun in Florida!

Mike, good luck to you this weekend! How are you feeling?

Thanks, Bob! I'm feeling great - but I've arranged to run it with Modal. So it will be a nicely paced medium long run. Good way to finish off first week of Cowtown training. Of course, if Modal falls off the pace too early - I may push to break 1:55. It may be hot and rainy so my plan is to not really have a set plan until I get the first 3-4 miles behind me and see how it goes. There are 5 RA folks and 4-5 folks from work running - so my big goal is to cheer for the first time HM and full marathon runners. Should be a fun day!

nice half Mike. Way to go.

nice half Mike. Way to go.

Thanks, Steve!

NICE race Mike and NICE PR!!!! Congrats hun!

OK - everybody wake up! This board is too quiet. To liven things up - I'm going to start the weekly training reports again! I'm a week behind so here's the first one. I can be pretty objective about the training plan vs. the actual training by looking at my log. But I come here to make weak excuses why I'm not keeping up with my training and I love how you guys help keep me honest and give me great advice. Training Week 1 Summary I was scheduled to do the following: TUE: 8mi Easy with 10x100m Strides - Check (Sort of) THU: 9mi Easy - Skipped SAT: 5mi Recovery - Skipped SUN: 13mi Medium Long - Check So this week I was running the White Rock HM as my Medium Long run for Sunday. I'd like to say that I skipped Thursday and Friday runs and call it a taper - but that wouldn't be true. Thursday, I just didn't feel like running in the rain and Saturday I was helping to build a giant playground at the kid's school. So I decided to play it safe and not try to run on Saturday either. Also - while I'm laying out my failures for the week - I totally forgot to check the workout type for Tuesday's run so I didn't do the strides either. So sue me. Not the best way to start off the training - but I ended up with another 3 minute PR for the HM - so all was not lost. I was debating whether to switch to the full marathon - but my choice was made for me when I went to see about switching on the web site and missed the deadline by 5 minutes. I think I'm better off for sticking with the half. My pace has been steadily improving this last month or two - most of it due to the weather - but I have to give some credit to the miles I've run this year. In total for the week, I got in 21.3 miles versus the planned 35. MTA: Sub-4, here I come!