psst... I think he's ignoring me. Someone else ask him.

1999 I am not ruling another one out, but I have no current plans. It takes a lot of time. You can train just to finish it, like a marathon and could maybe get by with less training than what I put in. Of course, I never do crap like that half-cocked. FWIW, at my peak I was training around 25 hours a week. If I had to quess I would say I ran 45-50 miles per week, rode 200-230 miles, and swam about 20,000 yards. Every week I did one 100 mile ride, one 20 mile run, and swam 3 days a week. The rest of the workouts were scheduled to increase speed or muscular endurance. I really don't remember exactly how I trained. I do remember being tired and hungry all the time. But...you could get by with much less than that. You will just be in for a long damn day come race time. MTA: I was not ignoring you. I have just been very busy and since I am not running right now RA is not high on my list of things to do/read/post.

It looks like knee surgery is in my immediate future. Saw my ortho today. We are still not sure what's wrong, but it's possible the MRI missed it. Oh well. I need to know, you know? If I can't run, fine. I will move on, but I need to know what the status of my right knee is because it's not right. I ran 2 little miles last night at about 6:45 pace. Aerobically I was not labored, but today I can't walk without a tremendous amount of pain and it hurt while running but it sort of gets numb and then hurts worse the next morning. Ack. It's been 90 days.

Marcus, that really, really sucks. I'm so sorry you're going through this. Best of luck with your surgery. BTW, your podcasts are awesome. Zoomy, you're injured too?! Yikes, I'm sorry. Do you know what it is? Crossing my fingers for both of you guys.

BTW, your podcasts are awesome.

I'm currently listening to your mix as I work. The mix at 16:00ish is pretty sweet. Nice flow too. Nice setup btw. Technics 1200 m3d, DJM-600, CDJ-800 MK2, possible Serato, Ortofon needles, and Sony V700DJ, am I right? I use to have a very similiar setup but sold it a month ago to get a synthesizer.

Cool! Im checking those podcasts out. Marcus, bummer on the knee. I hope you find a really great surgeon. You are so amazingly fit that I am sure you will be able to rehab it in no time! You dont have to be running to come visit us.

Let me try and update this thread a little bit. First of all, I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your concern. Now, assuming my knee gets scoped I should be able to be cycling within a couple of days. I imagine maybe running in 4 weeks. My ortho told me that knee MRI's miss pathology 5-15% of the time. There was nothing operable on my MRI, i.e. torn meniscus, etc. I had a stress reaction and some fluid behind the knee cap. However since nothing really bad was on the MRI I should have recovered fully by now and I have not. I can tell that something in there is not right, but the MRI didn't see it. So it's either something really minor structurally or the MRI simply missed it. We are at the point of doing a diagnostic athroscopy to go in and have a look see. If he sees something he can fix, he wil fix it and I will rehab and return to running. If he sees nothing that can be fixed, like a very small lesion or simply sees nothing, than I am probably done running for good. Right now the post run pain is not worth it. In other words, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. And I think running right now (when I have) is just making it worse. But don't cry for me Argentina. Not being able to run is not a huge deal. It was back in April because I was in pretty good running shape with a goal marathon 3 weeks away. It was painful watching that slip away as my running fitness rapidly declined. But I am over it. I belong to a pretty nice gym with nice equipment. Running was just one means to maintaing aerobic fitness, but it's not the only one. I haven't gained any weight in the last 90 days, but have lost about 5 pounds. From an objective standpoint I am still fit. Just not as running fit as I was. But I have more time on my hands so I have been doing more music stuff as some of you have noticed. I hope you like what you're hearing. Those mixes take some thought to put together. Music shopping on Beatport.com is a chore that is very time consuming. I typically have to listen to 300 songs to buy 10. Yeah, I am that picky. And that gear setup was what I had last summer. It took up way too much room and with everything going digital, I finally bought into using software as decks (turtables, etc). But I use a Hardware controller which is like a mixer and CD deck control in one box. I can't imagine DJ'ing with a mouse but I have seen it done. See pic. I know y'all ain't interested in all this so I will spare you. I havent' wandered back in the swamp since it was destructed and reborn. I hope to have a new mix posted up by Sunday night.