Traci- Good job getting through it!  Hope you continue to feel better.

Damaris, Enjoy the recovery...

Dave, sound like a nice run around the lake..

Scotty, the salute to service member run is a good tribute to those that served.. Loved the RR as usual... and you get Tacos... I am in Singapore.. smack right in the equator.. We don't really get tyhoon type of rain like the Philippines but we get heavy downpour.. Dec-Feb is the usual Monsoon for us as the Australia continent heated up for their summer.. I missed Liz and Kara too.. Don't see them around.. and we are missing Jimmy too.

Mitch, Nice run... Did the doc say anything abt no running so hard after the biospy?

Amadas, it takes time to come back after sickness.. take it easy.. You will get there.. Being out already showed your strong determination..

Mel, We get mainly torrential rain.. and often with lightning.. Not a good idea to run if you are not already out there.. haa.. But if you are put there while it rained.. It gave special incentive to speed up and find a shelter or head home.. What brand are the shoes? My Nike only gave me 280+ before I have some pain after raining.. I read that the surface hardness on where you do your run also factor in..

Jack, Congrats on the 40M.. I am on week 4 of my Pfitz and I have yet to touch 40... This week is cutback week so no 40M too.. Maybe my 14/52 pfitz will soon be 14/40.. Hope it doesn't affect me too much..

Vance, you mentioned a trip  to somewhere warm coming up.. Where are you heading again?

Jen, Sound like a wonderful day...

Tomas, awesome run...

Traci, hope your shin recover..

Zel, I didn't see your post, but you have a point, I do need to start doing some tempo runs.  I've been saying for over a month that I'm gonna start doing em, time to get to work.

Bin- My "aging" shoes are Mizunos.  They look like they've held up very well, but who knows?  I have also been doing more sidewalk running since it's been dark and I take the sidewalk instead of the park.  And now that I have my Garmin I'm much more tempted to go outside when I might have opted for the treadmill in the past.

 

Dave- Road camber could be an issue.  Any way to find a sidewalk or other area where you could run in both directions?  I'm also not sure if you saw my post the other day- I'm wondering if you need some more "medium" paced runs in your repertoire.  The all easy miles has done *wonders* for your base, but now that you're racing more often, I'm wondering if your legs need more workouts somewhere in between "race pace" and "easy effort" to help them adapt to the stress of running when you do race?  Just an idea.

My mizuno (inspires) are holding up better are 294M now.. but I rotated between 4 shoes.. and half of my run are on indoor tracks (rubberize material)

Jimmy- Congrats on the ten miler!

I have Mizunos but I have never kept them after 400 miles.  As I mentioned earlier, the slower the runner, the less miles you can put on the shoe because you're spending more hours out there (which is why I feel the shoe lasts less time).  I think yours are ready to be changed, especially if you don't rotate them much.

Bin- My "aging" shoes are Mizunos.  They look like they've held up very well, but who knows?  I have also been doing more sidewalk running since it's been dark and I take the sidewalk instead of the park.  And now that I have my Garmin I'm much more tempted to go outside when I might have opted for the treadmill in the past.

 

Dave- Road camber could be an issue.  Any way to find a sidewalk or other area where you could run in both directions?  I'm also not sure if you saw my post the other day- I'm wondering if you need some more "medium" paced runs in your repertoire.  The all easy miles has done *wonders* for your base, but now that you're racing more often, I'm wondering if your legs need more workouts somewhere in between "race pace" and "easy effort" to help them adapt to the stress of running when you do race?  Just an idea.

No it wasn't.  Our high today was 82F.  That's warm. 

Another warm sunny day - at least at first.  Windy and about 45 F.  DH wanted to do a short hike; I wanted either a long hike or a short run - since I wanted to take advantage of the good weather - so I ended up doing both.  Jim, the dog, and I headed up the AT for a couple of miles, then Jim and the dog headed off on a side trail, while I began a slow jog up the AT to a gravel road which I followed for a few miles down off the ridge, then I picked up a rocky wet trail back to the car.  I figure I hiked about 3 miles and ran about 4.  All in all, it was a lovely day in the woods.  There was more ice on the gravel road than I expected, and more water on the trail from recent snowmelt, but it felt good to be running in the sun.  I'm really inexperienced at any kind of technical trail running, but I enjoy trying.  Funny how easy it is to climb  at a walk, but very hard to do it at a run!  Fortunately, most of my running today was downhill.  I had a little problem with side cramps from running a bit too fast, and my hamstring and knees are a bit sore - probably from all the pounding on the descent, but nothing major.

I'm officially registered for 3 races now.  I have a 5K in February, a HM in March and a Full in November.  This feels weird.

I know twe feeling at one point I had 3 races the schedule within a month. After my 5k on feb 2nd I won't have a race scheduled until the fall. Just lots of miles and hopefully some weight loss and some new clothes