Just felt a moderate earthquake when I opened up this thread.

 

No running to report,  just cycling the last 4 days.

 

 

One of my clients at the gym is a head fiight attendant for Alaska Airlines.  She said that Alaskans are the nicest people.  Way nicer than the people she meets in most other states.  ( She must not meet Alaskan runners right after a marathon....  wink)

 

She also said that after 9/11  that Alaska Airlines first priority was getting flights working in the state of  Alaska before they provided service to any other state.    I found that interesting,  even though the name of the company has Alaska in it,  I think most of their revenue comes from the lower 48.

Hope everyone is surviving the heat. Did 4 miles late last night. Legs were a little tired at the end of the run. I will likely give them the night off. Have a work outing to a minor league baseball game tonight. Will be good to be there instead of watching Lebron screw my home town on national TV.

Cash, Alaska Airlines has a monopoly here for the most part. They'd better work at getting service back up asap! And I think a huge part of their revenue comes from Alaska because there's really not much competition. It doesn't cost all that much more to do a round trip from Fairbanks to Seattle, than Fairbanks to Anchorage. It's ridiculous how much that 350 mile flight costs... especially in the winter when we truly don't have many options.

 

I ran home from work last night, 10.1 miles of hills in mid-70's temps and my legs were dead tired. I think last week and my weekend caught up to me big time. Today's run will be just 5-6 miles easy RAL, and after two longish runs in a row the last couple of days, I think that'll be just right. Highs up to 85° later today. That's warm for us but I know a lot of you would welcome that as a relief from the heat!

Hi you all....

I've been wondering where Pam is....

Well, day 8 of of no running and recovering from surgery.  I feel much better.  I have some energy in the morning and then get tired again in the afternoon.  I'm not supposed to do anything for another week.

I've been sleeping, watching TV, reading and people have been bringing me meals.  Super nice.

For the first few days, I was in such pain that I needed the pain killers.  Now, I'm fine and bored.  It's a bummer to miss out on swimming and running.  But just 2 weeks and then I'll see what has happened to my fitness.

Good running for everybody here, especially in the heat.    Erika, I'm always amazed at the "run home from work" thing.  I think that's cool.

Paul- looks like it's as hot there as it is here.

Lou- hope you're hanging in there with work busyness.

Bugs, Murphy, Perry, Dave and anyone else- hi!!

I will be checking in from time to time... trying to keep my sanity and my spirits up.  

Hi Kimmie!! Hang in there! Great to have such good friends to help you with the dinners, etc..

 

Slightly cooler here as well. Rainy this morning. Did a relatively easy 30 mnutes on the treadmill.

 

Weigh in today was at 177 lbs. Down over 20lbs since my initial weigh in on May 28. Still in 2nd place, but gained on the leader. 5 more weigh ins to go.

Kim,

So glad you are doing okay. It really does stink to be a woman sometimes. Hope you're able to just kick back and enjoy the down time. Last Monday I let myself just read and lay on the couch. It was great and highly recommend it.

 

Cash,

wow earthquake, I can't imagine. The two girls that came to run Grandmas were from California and they were all nervous about the tornadoes. (we get warnings all the time, but odds are unlikely, although one running friend 50 miles away got hit bad.) I'd be the same way about an earth quake.

 

 Erika,

 Not just long runs, but a race too are reasons to give yourself a recovery week.

 

I ran 9 yesterday but got a little ugly. Legs just are not recovering like they should be and it frustrates me. Not going to fight it. Going to do all 30 minute runs this week and see if that helps. Boat load of belly stress in me right now. DH's job, which is the secure and higher paying one in our house, appears to be doing some consolidation and long term doesn't look good. Just one of those times you wish you were small enough to have your parents tell you everything was going to be okay. Anyway I offered to cut back on races planned.

Quiet day, quiet house. DW and DS2 are in Colorado visiting DD and DS1. Got an okay 12 & change this  morning but then needed a nap.  Time to clean some house.  Have the dish tuned into Sirrus and am enjoying the music. I would like to get the road bike out today but haven't decided if I want a good dose of heat, humidity and sun on top of what I got with this morning's run.

 

Kimmie:  Hoping you're feeling better today.

 

Murph: Congrats on the weight loss.  New picture on FB looks great!

 

Bugs:  Think the steady running in  less time and effort will have you back to normal soon. 

 

Oh well, time to get back to doing what ever the hell I want, whenever the hell I want to do it. 

 

Have a great weekend everyone.