AZ~You are going to run your HM so strong after putting in all the miles on your trails!  I'll be thinking of you and anticipate reading your RR.  As Dan said, think of both of us still sloggin' it out on our hilly course!  RUN STRONG!

18" of snow to the west of us!  Luckily, none to the NE along Lake Michigan.  It's May for Pete's sake!!!

Dan & Debra -  Good luck tomorrow.  Trust you training and you'll do well.  Positive thoughts heading your way!

Az - Same to you!  I'm not sure why, but I worry about you the least when it comes to races  You seem to do well no matter what.

MaryK -  More of the same to you!  It IS going to be fun!  Seems like you've been training well, now is the time to enjoy the work!

For everyone else racing this weekend, I apologize for missing you, enjoy the race and run well!

Yesterday was just brutal here.  It was supposed to be a 9 mile tempo run at marathon pace, so 8:40 to 8:30, but temps were around 93F. Did my warmup mile in 10:03 and kept thinking "It is SO hot!, how am I going to get through this?"  Hit mile 2 in 8:33 just before I turned around and thought "Dude, you can't keep this up."  Mile 3 was 8:44, "it's ok, you can run slower.  It's hot this is like much faster then you should."  Mile 4 8:49, "Maybe I can give up in another mile, it's HOT!"  At 4.5 after an uphill, stopped sucked down my gel and a couple of big gulps of water to wash it down.  Mile 5 9:07, "that's fine I stopped and walked a bit, 6 more miles to go? !"  Mile 6 8:44, "You're not going to make it you wimp!"  Mile 7 8:40 "how soon can I turn around and head back, thank God there's shade in the next mile!".  Mile 8 9:02, "Thank God for shade!  Stop thinking about going up hill, stop thinking about going up hill.  Can I turn around yet?"

Mile 9 8:45, "You're going downhill this should be easier...Oh, I need a bathroom break.  Just a bit further.  It's downhill, move it! Jeez, I'm tired!".  Took my bathroom break, tried to suck down some water from fountain cuz the water I brought was warm, but fountain water was warm too!  Used paper towels to dry off and started walking back.  Started to jog and hit the watch.  Mile 10 9:10, "you're going slow, pick it up.  Come on, a little faster you can do a sub 10 minute mile.  You can stop at 10, honest!"  Mile 10.3, "That wasn't too bad just make it to the bridge.  You've got more kick it out!  Just one more up hill. Go!"  Final .3 was @8:08 pace.  Went back to the office and spent the afternoon and evening drinking water and eating.  By bed time had close to a gallon of fluids and still woke up thirsty.  Weight is back up close to what it should be.  Can't believe I've got 4 more tempo runs.  Today is off.  10K race tomorrow.  Sure hope the batteries can recharge by then.

Planned on an easy day for Friday and ended up working almost 12 hours helping someone set up a server and the new network. And we still didn't finish!

I wanted to wish everyone racing this weekend good fortune and the wind at your back. Looking forward to the reports.

Ray - Believe me I know how you feel. That's why I run in the mornings instead of later in the day during the warm months.

Mary Kay- I'm not finding your race report, but would like to read it.  When you're back in posting mode, would you please provide a link?  Thanks!

Ran 9 miles on Saturday morning.  Pace was 9:45 which is right about my pace for 15k or longer races.  Was a nice morning for running- mostly cloudy, a little breezy with the temp about 57 at the start.  DW came along on her bike so I had someone to chart with.  She's doing a 10k run/walk with DD next Saturday.

Just a quick message: got sick Thursday night, still ran HM on Saturday, feeling congested now after driving back to northern AZ from NM, about a 5.5 hours drive but took longer as I had to stop and walk around to stay awake, feeling pretty crappy, will post RR later.  Flying back to MN on Friday so may be MIA for a few days!

Thanks for all the support!!

Congratulations!!!!! DEBRA! DAN! AZ!

Mary Kay!!! You are a MARATHONER!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!  YOU DID IT! I also would love to read your RR, but have no idea which forum you posted it on! It would be nice if you told us where it is located since you went to all the trouble to write it! LOL

Everyone is doing so well in here!!! It is obvious that we are not from the same areas of the country! LOL  All of you are racing now and I did all of mine from Nov. through April!  To hot here now to race, but I am in my 2nd week of a training plan for the summer and I am loving it. I will be building on mileage and endurance and hopefully some speed during the summer with running 4 days a week and strength training 2 days a week until the first of August when I will begin a new training plan for my 1st HM on Nov. 10th.

I am also getting back into golf now on the weekends since I am not racing. I am loving having more time to devote to my golf play. I have missed it!

Good running to you all!

Well, I still cannot find it.