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1hr 14minutes til start.

Good morning Gus.  You got a very early Sunday start.

Awood, you probably won't see this before you start, but good luck!

DH and I ran a 5K yesterday. My goal was to finish under 30:00, and my stretch goal was to run /finish with DH. Got the first one with room to spare:  28:48. Almost hit the second goal; I was on DH's shoulder until the beginning of mile 3. I kept close but could never quite catch up, so finished two seconds behind him.

Today I plan to to 6-miler at the park. But first I've got cookies to bake. Have a good day everyone!

Congrats on the sub-30 Margo  !!!!

RD for us after yesterdays LR.  Hardly sore at all today.  DD still in Berlin.  Her hostel roommates live a couple of miles from us and go to her alma mater U of I.  Small world.  Other DD and fiance coming over for belated St Paddys day/B Day, corned beef and Harp.

NCAA for me.  Go Cyclones, beat the buckeyes.

Gustav, it's always nice to have those amazing runs!

Awood, probably done by now, hope you did well.

Margo, congrats, awesome time! I'm with Bin, 2 seconds behind DH is together.

Kristin, enjoy the run with pup.

Jerry, enjoy the RD.

Bin, nice job on the 11.

im about to head off to church, and then may take my pup for a run. I had a good 11.1 mile LR yesterday, so any miles today will be easy.

Morning!  It is unfathomable for me to imagine a race that starts at 10am because ours start at 6am and that's even late.  But hoping Awood is killing it already!

I might run, I might not.  Trixie is still in the hospital, but the vet said she is doing better.  I am going to head there with some of her food to see if she would eat (she has not been eating).

Oh, I know.  Still it's hard for me to imagine.  NYCM for me started at 10:45am and I was starving, since at this time it's when I finish marathons, not start them.  I go all crazy.

 

Changes in latitude, changes in attitude. My 5K yesterday started at 5:15 p.m., but since the "feels like" temperature at the time was 38 degrees the late start was not an issue.

 

Awood is probably not in danger for heat stroke today.

Nope, last night was his friend from law school, today is my friend from work. He is in his early 30s, I am in my late 20s, we have a LOT of weddings lol...this is my 7th in a year, his friend who's bachelor party was last night is getting married in April and that will be my 8th in a year between his friends and my friends lol

Margo - congratulations on yesterdays good 5k.  I agree, only two seconds is finishing together.

 

Awood - hope the race is going well.

 

Gustav - nice to get the run done early.

 

Kristin - hope you enjoy the wedding.  Is this the same one that had the bachelor party your BF went to yesterday?

 

Jerry - enjoy the basketball and the belated St. Paddy's celebration.

 

Bin - nice long run.  Does feeling heaty mean having a fever, or being on fire in a good sense?

 

AFM:  I'll do a few miles on the TM this afternoon.  My husband wants to go to the Sports Show in Carlisle that replaced the cancelled Eastern Sports Show, so how far I run will probably depend on how much walking I end up doing there.