Training has started so yes, I'm excited!  I'll be more excited when I book the trip.

Good morning!

 

Dave, your DD will have a blast! I remember seeing Supertramp (yes, I'm that old) when I was 14. My best friend and I had to sit in a crowded baseball park from 11 am to 9 pm (when the show started). There were potheads all around us, but we were good little girls. We were just so impressed to be sitting there, amongst "grown ups". lol... Don't be discouraged about your injury. SO injured his sciatic nerve last spring and it took a few months before he could start running again. Now it's all good. See it as mental training. You're training your patience and your resolve. And work on your core, it'll make you a stronger runner when you're ready to run again. Also, stick around, this place works magic. :-)

 

LRB, since when do you talk in kilometers? Somehow, it makes you even more charming to me. Enjoy your run!

 

Phil, I'd kill for an 8 miler at 8:20 that feels easy. At the moment, 8:20 feels tough! You've done so well since your surgery. Have a nice TM run later today!

 

Basya, oh no! Any idea how this happened? Does it hurt?

 

D., good morning girlfriend! We have to talk about Chicago in the coming weeks. I'm excited! Are you?

 

Marjorie, do you work in health care? I know you travel a lot for your job. I've always been curious about what you do, seems interesting!

 

Oski, good morning! :-)

 

 

My heel/foot feels good (not great, but good is good enough). But my legs are all kinds of sore and that makes me happy in some sadistic way. It means I'm getting them back in the correct shape. The runner's shape! 5 recovery miles this morning and another 5 later tonight. I'd like to attempt a longer run this weekend, so I don't want to push too much today.

 

Have a great day everyone!

Morning!

5-6 miles for me today. Not sure how I'm going to split them out yet. Maybe 3 on the treadmill at lunch and 3 after work, maybe 5 after work on the treadmill, I don't know. I don't have any lunch plans so it's easy for me to justify running vs. sitting around on my butt. But, if I do 3/3, I'll want to run the second 3 outside and it's going to be hot as balls again (heat index around 102 and dewpoint at 72 at 5pm). Ugh. But it's only 3 miles, right? I don't know. The weather sucks this week.

Morning dailies!

5 Mile Easy run for me this morning. It was 65 and sunny out. Pretty nice after the humid weather that we've been having. Today will be nicer too, thank goodness. I'm pretty pumped for my race tonight. I'm part of a 12 person relay team. It's an 81 mile road race. I was trying for a month to put a 6 person team together but we couldn't get the last couple of runners. I ended up going to Facebook to a local running club's page and they had a few openings. Me and another buddy that was going to be on my 6-person team grabbed a spot. I did get a paid a compliment indirectly by the captain. She said she was going to assign the longer distances to the faster people, and I got 1 of the 2 longest stretches (8.5 miles). I guess she thinks I'm fast? Anyways, that fun kicks off around 11PM tonight.

Have a great day everyone!

Good morning all. I did 5 slow miles on a tm this morning after a 5 mile race last night so didn't want to push on 12 hours rest.

Basya I wish I knew you were running the race last night also. I finished in 43:33. I have done that maybe 5 times, and last night was the hottest. 1 runner left in an ambulance.

Hubby's shins are no longer hurting, so if he stops coughing a lung, I'll take him out for his first run in 2 weeks this weekend.  He is a bit scared of restarting but like I told him, you bought inknburn, you HAVE to run now.

 

I've often wondered why it's still professional/acceptable (at least in my business casual job) to switch from long sleeves to short sleeves when it gets hot, but not from pants to shorts?  Why are bare forearms ok, but shins not?

In general I think mens' attire is much easier to manage than womens'. But this is an area where I am jealous. Women can get away with wearing shorts & sandals to a business casual office; I cannot.

SRD for me.  I have to take my car in for some maintenance which means a hour drive out there (yes, I live in the boonies) and then a 2-3 hour wait while they work on it.  But the good news is that google showed me a running store a mile from the repair shop, so I know I can pass some time there.  This may end up being one expensive repair!

Lily and Damaris -- I hope you guys are excited about Chicago -- I'm excited just waiting to hear all about it!

 

So now you are a soothsayer 'eh?

 

Welp, as Scotty correctly predicted, 7 miles done in them stupid split shorts I have, with even shorter short boxer briefs underneath.

 

I have not seen that much ass since my last trip to the gentleman's club!  I must have looked down at my stupid legs in disbelief a thousand times while running.  I did not know whether to run faster, or get horny.  Aye!