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I've got a 1 mile race this morning, should be interesting. It's part of The Summit Games! 'The Summit' is a 50 and over gym I belong to. The games are 2 days and has events from dominoes to swimming.
With warmup and cool down may get 3 total today.
Enjoy your weekend.
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Morning all! Drinking coffee and then I'll head out for a run. Ideally I'd like to do the one 7.5 mile route that I often do, but we'll see what my body says once I'm out there. DH and I will be heading to a memorial day party this afternoon.
Upcoming Races: Run as One 4M (4/24) * Japan Run 4M (5/8) * Brooklyn Half (5/21)
Good morning!
Pad-sounds like a blast!
Sapf-enjoy.
Looking forward to a stress free weekend. Just a a grandkid birthday party and soccer game to go to and nothing else. Ahhh. Work is incredibly busy so I need some down time. Been wrestling all week with insurance and still no answered. Gave up on primary care doctor and have an appointment with an Ortho next week. Still gimping, no running.
Kathleen
2015 Goals:
Sub 30 5K
Sub 60 10K
Former Bad Ass
Morning! I have 6 later.
PAD, good luck with the mile race!
sapf, enjoy the run.
Kathleen, hope you are feeling better and have a stressless weekend.
Damaris
Return To Racing
Good Morning !!!
Enjoy the games, PAD.
Enjoy the Memorial Day Party, sapf. Glad DH is better.
Have a good de-stressing weekend, Kathleen.
Have a good 6, Docket. TM?
SRD, we are driving up to Madison today.
Have a great Memorial Day.
Hey guys! I didn't run yesterday. I'm "recovering" Hope to get some miles in today. This will also be my first day without caffeinated coffee in over 17 years. I've been on half-caff for a few days, hope I'm ready!
PAD- Good luck!
sapf- Enjoy the run and the party! Glad DH keeps coming back with good reports from the docs!
Kathleen- Sounds frustrating! Hope you get some answers soon!
D- Enjoy the 6!
Jerry- Hope the weather cooperates for you!
PAD - have fun at your race.
Jerry - safe travels and I hope you and your wife do well tomorrow.
sapf - I hope your run went well. How is DH feeling?
Kathleen - an orthopedist is a good idea. I hope you have a relaxing weekend.
Z - good luck with quitting coffee. I've had to do without at times (fire ban when hiking) and I get grumpy. The headache is the worst part - maybe do some yoga to get more oxygen to help that.
D - hope your six go well.
AFM: my leg doesn't hurt today, so I may do an easy 5 or 6. I don't want to miss this last run of nice weather before summer heat takes over.
Kathleen, bummer about the injury, hopefully you'll get some answers soon. Enjoy the time with the grand babies.
Pad, good luck with the one mile. I've been wanting to race one for a while, hopefully I can do one in the fall.
sap, have fun at the party. DH doing ok?
Damaris, enjoy the 6
Jerry, drive travels.
I am looking for a few easy after work with strides.
Good Morning !!! Enjoy the games, PAD. Enjoy the Memorial Day Party, sapf. Glad DH is better. Have a good de-stressing weekend, Kathleen. Have a good 6, Docket. TM? SRD, we are driving up to Madison today. Have a great Memorial Day.
Most likely, since it's feels like 94F and the high of the day has not happened.
Have some Ibuprofen or Tylenol handy! I always get withdrawal headaches when I don't have my coffee.
You're not kidding! This is worse than I was expecting. But one day almost down.
I did get in a 4 mIle run too.
We wanted to get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather - 72 and sunny - but didn't want to run into hordes of people out enjoying the long weekend. That meant the AT and the State Parks were out. Fortunately, the ski trail is too short (only 3 miles) for a long hike or bike ride, so there was only one group out enjoying a walk. I did two loops on the ski trail while Jim and Ben walked it once. I am really slow on even very easy trail. It was fun though. Only one deer this time and no turkeys.
8 with hubby. It was only 91F when we started. Meh.
Finished but didn't get official results yet. Probably no PR. Too many hills. 2:17:47 by my clock which would be a minute off last week's PR. Rain held off until last mile and we still finished last 2 miles at 10:00 pace. Nice, well organized race.