jeffdonahue - 500 days Trent - 150 days Jill_B - 2 months Jeff

Happy 500, Jeff! Wow! Congrats to Trent - keeping your streak alive after that ultra was an act of bravery and willpower! Jill_B - Yay! Go celebrate that two months and keep up the good work! Am currently in transition up to 1.4 miles/day barefoot. Am discovering interesting new ways for my feet to hurt! But I think that it'll get better. It'd better!

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Jeff - congrats on the 500! That is amazing. Trent - I don't know what to say. Ultras aren't beyond my comprehension. Continuing a streak after an ultra? Wow! Jill - keep going! Last week was a good week for me - in spite of being sick. Ran a total of 25.7 and finally did my first double digit run - 10.01 miles. MTA: Forgot to mention - A friend of ours ran a 5K race in Wheaton this past weekend and I took her grandparents to the race so they could see her. She placed 2nd in her age group, so it was a great day for her. I should have run this race. There were only 2 women in my age group and the second place person ran in 44 minutes - so I could have gotten my first medal! LOL. Very unique prizes for the first place winners in each age group - this was a race to benefit a local school, so the kids brought in sneakers, painted them green, put shiny gold laces in them, and threaded the ribbon from the medal up through the laces so the medal was on top of the toe part of the shoe. You've got to love these small races.

Last week was probably the worst week I have had in a long time! I know I was recovering from the marathon but I managed to tweak my back while making the bed one morning (all the more reason not to do it!) Yesterday's long run ended early with me calling DH to pick me up at mile 11. I started heading into strong winds and I just couldn't do it and, honestly, it just wasn't worth it! I am hoping to feel more like myself over the next few days. If not I'll scale back one more week. Also, I need to find a fall marathon! Having a goal is always good for me. Congrats to to Jeff (500 days is amazing!), Trent and Jill! Hope everyone has a good week.

Good job getting to those milestones - those are nice accomplishments. Last week was a 35 mile week for me. All were easy except for a 10 mile run with four middle miles at tempo pace and a 5 X 1K workout averaging four seconds slower than goal 5K pace. This week is a cutback week. Saturday (5/16) I have a 5K race, and I hope to break 20 minutes.

Thanks guys! And great job Jeff & Trent! I'm hoping that this week and next week are VERY heavy weeks for me with tons of mileage (or about 50 miles each week) because the week after that will be super light (we'll be in Disney). Also, I know it's not for a few weeks, but I'm not going to have computer access for the week in Disney so don't kick me out of the group - I'll be running, just not logging my runs until we get back.

Dont worry about it - I dont kick people out of the group unless they havent visited teh group in at least six months. have fun in Disney. I was just down there this week adn got a few nice runs in, but it was pretty hot so go out in the mroning (93 degrees and sunny every day). Downtown Disney is a nice run to place.

Downtown Disney is a nice run to place.

Yes. And you can run around the lake and some of the resorts. Sadly, it is hard to get much distance there, but you can reasonably get 5 or so miles. Here are a couple runs I did around DD: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7439696 http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7445311 (slow, right after the WDW marathon)