Just found it amusing school closed nite before, that stuff never happened when i lived on Long Island but we got snow all the time so it did not effect people like here.

Morning! I'll probably run 4 after work. I'm treating this week as a massive cutback week since my husband and I have off all next week - we decided a few months ago that we needed a spring staycation. So I'm planning on running my heart out next week. Can't wait!

 

Jedi, same with me. I live in Eastern PA and all day they called for 2-4". Not a whole lot closed, but we didn't get a single snowflake.

Beth so great on the dog!  I'm very happy for you.  He will come around and start eating again soon

I am 'fatigued"!  Apparently the reason I am fatigued is that I have some type of virus or stomach bug,  I found that out this morning after my run.  I got up at 5 a.m. went to Lackland Air Force Base to run with a couple of buds.  I felt pretty good for the whole run/walk, and we did 4.5 miles.  But after I stopped, it was like - WHAM! - something hit me and I puked a couple of times post-run.  My buds, knowing my medical history, got all concerned and hustled me over to the nearby Troop Clinic.  Funny, there I am, retired military, sitting in among all these trainees, lol. The doc worked me in, took some tests (blood, urine, etc), had me wait for the results, also told me I had a temp of 100, not too bad.  The results showed nothing serious.  He told me my body was probably trying to fight something off and the run/walk most likely made my body more tired and made everything 'surface."   He gave me some meds to help, told me to go home and do nothing for the next 24 hours, rest, rest, rest, drink lots of liquids, rest some more. So now I am at home with an unexpected day off work, napping on-and-off, drinking lots of water, and will only eat stuff  for a while that is very easy on my stomach.

Oh well, life goes on, this too shall pass.   At least I got a very nice run/walk in, lol.  One funny thing happened to us along the way.  As we were nearly finished, we were running down one of the Troop Walk streets - closed off streets where the Air Force basic trainees march to and from classes, training, chow halls, etc.  We had forgotten that Friday is "Graduation Day" for some of the trainees, so Thursday is "Family Day', when family and friends can come out and visit with the graduating trainees.  The visitors also get an orientation about what will happen on graduation day with the ceremony, post-graduation, etc.  Part of Family Day is the visitors all line up along the Troop Walk and the graduating trainees march past them 'in review."  We had forgotten about that too. So here we are, running down the Troop Walk street, with all these people lined up on either side of us, lol, waiting for the trainees to appear for the review.  As usual, I was wearing one of my I BEAT CANCER shirts and someone  saw that and shouted "Beat cancer, yeah!"  And then all these folks started clapping and cheering us along as we 'ran the gauntlet' between the two lines of them.  Too funny!   We kind of hammed it up, l just going with it, raising our arms over our heads in 'victory",  and I heard one of my buds calling out "Thank you, thank you!  My family thanks you, my dog thanks you, my cat thanks you!"      Kind of a nice 'mental rush' way to end a run though, we got past them all with big smiles, then just busted out laughing,  and ended our run one block later at the gym. 

As for the weather:  38 degrees for my 6 a.m., run.  Brisk for we South Texans, but I still wore shorts when I ran...guess I  am getting hardcore, huh?  Yeah, right....   We are heading for sunny and 74 degrees today, with still no sign of any rain that we badly need down here.

Just found it amusing school closed nite before, that stuff never happened when i lived on Long Island but we got snow all the time so it did not effect people like here.

 

I'm really biased because I grew up in Alaska of all places and we obviously NEVER had snow days... but people are weenies here! I've lived here almost 9 years and I still can't believe the amount of weenie-tude that the prospect of 2" of snow brings on.

Scotty, you're hilarious. Feel better and I love how you had a cheering section.

 

I'm really biased because I grew up in Alaska of all places and we obviously NEVER had snow days... but people are weenies here! I've lived here almost 9 years and I still can't believe the amount of weenie-tude that the prospect of 2" of snow brings on.

 

Scotty, you're hilarious. Feel better and I love how you had a cheering section.

Perspective is a funny thing, isn't it?

We have had over 60 inches so far this winter, which is pretty typical. Usually have at least one or two big storms

in March/April and often have snow on the ground in early May.

2 inches wouldn't even be a blip here.  Usually only visiblity issues due to heavy blowing snow or freezing

rain will close our schools.

Unfortunately, around here, budgets for road clearing has gone way down (or so the story goes), so two inches results in the highway being shut down for 12 hours when two tractors flip and 10 passenger cars go down with them (which is what happened this morning).

Good afternoon dailies!  The sidewalks are still snow covered here so decided to head to the gym for another go around with the hamster wheel!  I did 6 easy @ 9:35/mile, but to stave off boredom I jumped off after every mile and did push-ups, pull-ups, ab work, etc...figured it would be good training for my Spartan Race next month.  It was a pretty good workout, but man, there are some really strange people at the gym at 10 AM!  From the creepy old dude who kept trying to look up my shorts while I did abs to the many people just wandering from machine to machine drinking coffee (seriously, they would do 1-2 reps, drink some coffee, and then move to another machine)!  At least I had something to distract me from my running!  I did get some good news yesterday in that I am already seeded higher than I thought for my goal HM (they made a mistake I am pretty sure, but I will take it!), so the pressure is off for the 10k Saturday...still going to try for sub 48 though.  Hope you are all having a great day!

Weezer:  Is your race this weekend?  I knew it was coming up soon but couldn't remember!

Scotty:  Hope you feel better!

Beth:  Glad to hear your Aunt and Buster are doing ok!

Everyone else:  Sorry I can't to everyone....busy day at work...at least I got to come in at 11!

4.65 mile tempo sandwich.

1 mile in the middle @ 7:48, which is almost intended 5k pace.  I'm going for 7:44, which gives me a 23:59 in my upcoming 5k on May 4th.  I have plenty of time to work.