Heh, Bryan, field dressing a moose ain't all that hard. What's hard is getting them to stand still while you do their hair and accessorize the outfit. Tougher still is to get them to come home on time so you can undress them.

DAVE! I missed that it was your birthday! Hope it was grand as I'm sure you've already gone to bed tonight. Good luck on your run tomorrow. I don't know about you guys, but I'm soooo happy its Friday night. Almost ready to go to bed. Got lots of stuff to do around here tomorrow, but at least it's MY house stuff and not work.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!!!! Thanks, everyone. What are your running plans this weekend, dave?

I'm heading out the door now for a 5-6 miler. Knee feels much better but still not 100%. Just the thought of 3 days in a row off bothers me know. Last spring I took 3 weeks without blinking. Depending on how this goes, I may do another 5-6 tomorrow, I may do 10-15. I'm starting my mini-taper to Saturday's 10 miler so I intend to take it really easy Thursday and Friday next week. My regular plan would've called for a cutback this weekend to around 12 and then my last 20 next weekend. In light of turning 42 yesterday, I decided to update my plan to BQ. I think my goal race is now Boston in 2012. If I can stay focused and avoid injuries, I should be able to BQ with a 3:30 by then once I turn 45. I simply can't imagine 3:20. MTA: Went 7.4 this morning at an easy pace. Knee held up well but I'm still not confident in it. The humidity is pretty awful, Kimmie. Hope your 20 goes well.

Happy birthday Dave!! Just ran an hour today. Not surprisingly, I've been overthinking things. 4x per week run fast once run longer once 90 minutes to start with This isn't rocket science people. logging food is a pain the scale is starting to budge

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY DAVE. How's the knee today? A hard 5K race today, full of young runners because it's the local college's running club race. I passed two of them, they really tried to keep me back and all I could think was, "I got running shoes older than you." A volunter had us go the wrong way. We went down main street which is a very long steep hill with lots of traffic. All I kept thinking was we're going to have to go back up this thing. Then it was clear we were not on the course. The race director was there and he said how to get back, but I just assumed we were taking whatever course and I lost my mental edge. The hill was so hard I walked part of it. So I'm thinking, "This isn't good to be walking a 5K when you're pegged to run 26". I made it back to the finish but not many people there. I wore the nike sportsband watch and it says "2.48m", "25:27". Shit! Turns out, everybody ran the incorrect course, which ended up being 3.1, sportsband was inaccurate, and I was 2nd woman in. It was a hard 5K, everybody's times were slow, everybody walked part of the hill. It was just bad, 1 mile crazy fast, traffic stops, steep scary downhill, and evil uphill. I won $20 gift certificate. Three races, three placements, no metals. Doesn't anyone give out hardware? Must be rising cost of aluminum. My good ankle/achillies is sore. I had graston on Friday and it might be related to that, then racing on it. I hope it's fine by tomorrow. (slightly freaking me out.)

Nice race Bugs. That would freak me out too if someone directed me the wrong way. It's hard not to be frustrated over that. Glad you got your shoes figured out Dave. That makes a big difference. I'm going to bed early so I can get up at the break of dawn and go run a hilly 20 miler in Alexandria. I've had a bad sore throat all day, so I hope that doesn't affect me. I'll just go out and easy and see what happens.

Happy late bday Dave! Today's 7 miles turned into 6....the whole run was complete hell so I just figured why subject myself to anymore....called it a day and went home