Thanks again Chris. Great writeup too. It's good to see the big picture. It really makes me feel like we're a supportive group. Congrats to you Chris, and jules2 for staying ahead of the bunny in both categories. The runners are doing great. That bunny is looking at the backside of seven of you. I just need to get off the bike. Today it was sunny, 48F, very little wind, a perfect running day. What did I do...go pound out 60 miles! I'm still planning to do the HM in mid April

Motivation, you've never met my wife if the choice is a night in with her or a 10 mile run in the rain its no contest ( only joking dear )

Totals have been updated through 2/10/08. We lost a member (BFrank) but gained 2 more (jules2 and kds)! Looks like kds has taken your spot on the board with the ?? totals, Eternal Rookie. Chris

It was good to give the ?? to somebody else. Past the biker bunny this weekend but fell behind the running rabbit. Both because I pulled a calve muscle. Cycling is my cross training when injured and the way I increase my miles without increasing risk of injury. I equate 4 - 5 miles on the bike equal to 1 running mile.

Totals have been updated through 3/5/08 and I've included our newbies as well. Mroualet and andsmit are tearing it up on the running side with over 400 miles already while Croydon and new member hokieesq are destroying the field on the biking side with 1143.1 and 999.2 miles respectively. We now have 5 group members that are putting a hurtin on the bunny in BOTH categories now! Congrats to Mroualet (470.5/281.5), hokieesq (293.3/999.2), Buzz 63 (256.0/480.0), jules2 (191.4/481.0) and Eternal Rookie (177.8/204.2)!!! Sadly, the bunny flew by me on his bike in the last couple of weeks... but it's only the beginning of March so there's plenty of time left in the year. Great job to all and keep up the good work! Chris westward13

Anyway off to Holland next week for the Hague ( CPC ) Half Marathon on the theory its flat as I'm fed up with hills. I didn't realise that the world record half was run on this course and the record holder will be running. Plan A is to find him at the start, slipstream him until the last 25 yards and then take him on the line. Do you think I need a plan B? For reasons that are far too complicated to go into I am running as a member of a Dutch Civil Service team even though I've never spoken yet alone met anyone else in the team.

Plan B ? Good luck, and I'll be waiting to hear a report on the race ....in English please

Heres the blurb about the race, Posted February 5th, 2008 at 4:00 PM by David Monti Section: News & Results, Marathons Organizers of the City-Pier-City Half-Marathon announced yesterday that three men who have broken 60 minutes for the half-marathon distance had agreed to run in their event in The Hagur on Saturday, March 15. It will be the 34th running of what could be called the world’s fastest half-marathon since the men’s world record of 58:33 was set there last year by Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya. The three men are Kenyans Patrick Makau and Francis Kibiwott, and Ethiopian Deribe Merga. Makau is the third fastest half-marathoner in history with a 58:56 personal best. He has recorded four sub-60:00 performances. Kibiwott has a 59:26 to his credit, while Merga has broken the one-hour barrier three times, with a best time of 59:16. The City-Pier-City Half-Marathon will also serve as the Dutch Half-Marathon Championships this year.

That'll definitely be awesome to hear about afterwards. Sorry about the extra zero, Buzz. I'll get that updated for you. Nice job on the running thus far all the same!

westward, thanks for updating I'm afraid the running pace bunny is going to catch me as I have a torn thigh muscle. But I'm optimistic I can start again next week, I don't want to risk it this week as I have a two day mountain bike event next weekend and my team mate won't be happy if I'm injured. Cyling is not an option today as there are gales and it is raw outside.