Mr. I - the biking sounds like fun even if it was tough! I bet you will see it gets easier with practice! Sorry your long run didn't go well, sometimes I think it's good to have those tough runs to remind you that you still need to eat/fuel/everything else well to have happy runs! Oh I am positive and determined!! hehe Last week was a busy week as far as school getting out and I wasn't sure how much I should run coming off of the race so I am chalking last week up to those and am gonna go back at it today! Over the next weeks i might try to transition into morning running, but we shall see...

Hey everybody! How is the gang holding up? Just scanned last week's thread and it seems like Shan is struggling a mile at a time and Cash has some huggy thing going with his groin? Hmmm, what HAVE you people been up to? I'm back from a week in Hawaii with my menfolk... Soccer tournament went pretty well even though we were eliminated in the prelims (not unexpected). Got some good runs in before the games and it was sure a change to a) run at 6 a.m. every day and b) deal with that heat and humidity! Not as H&H as some folks deal with, but sure a big change for me! Got home at 7 a.m. on Saturday after flying all night (6 hours from Honolulu to Anchorage and another hour to home) and a 2 hour time change. Spent Saturday puttering around the house, napping for a couple hours, laundry, then up to my sister's for my dad's 81st birthday party... THEN at 10 pm my oldest son and I ran the Midnight Sun Run 10k. I'll get around to a race report eventually... maybe. I think my time was 48:08, which is two minutes slower than last year. Not bad considering my feet and ankles were still puffy from the plane and my legs were tired and sore. Got an 11 mile long run in yesterday, longest run I've done in awhile. My foot is still sore and my left ankle is now also acting stupid. I blame shoes. Finally got my Asics delivered today (got an e-mail confirming delivery)... I found some old Nimbus 9's for a good price and bought two pair in my hard-to-find size. Gotta scout out some more... I hate the new 10's and the Nike's I'm wearing are good but not great. I hate looking for new shoes.

Yes and about Cash's groin, like my kids would say, "I didn't touch it." Think you need to put some bio-freeze all over it. Boy it's a good thing the girls can't get strained in this sport else it'd be pay back time. When back to read about Shan's troubles, thought maybe she was injured, nope just can't get her arse out of bed. Shan, thought you were in marathon training? Inerita, Time to take care of yourself. Sleep, nutrition and all. I know your next post will be that you nailed your run. Dgb, you need to take pictures of runners. Oh I am hooked on the those, I order them all because they do such a good job. My DH can look at me as he runs in my exercise room. Erika, That race sounds so cool. Don't sweat the time, you packed a whole lot of running in a short amount of time, even super woman take a vacation now and then. A tough week of running for me, some tummy trouble, poop does wash off of your shoes but it's not as fun as it sounds and a tough 10K race Saturday after a weekend of camping. Ended the race with achilies pain, felt it again last night, and thought I was officially injured again. Hey I was in a state of "nothing hurts" for TWO flippin weeks! 5 miles tonight, including the longest hardest flippin hill with no pain so it may have been just a minor strain. Graston treatment tomorrow just the same.

Bugs - i'll keep my fingers crossed that your achillies pain is nothing!! And i've got 3 weeks before training starts so i'll be getting back to good mileage this week. Cash- sorry to hear about your friend, but i'll bet he was really glad to have you there!

My plan is to log 25-30 mpw before training begins on 7/21. 4 today. It was rough I had to pee half way through even though I went before i left. Thankfully i was lost in the woods so it worked out. What sucked is that I got lost in the woods on trails that were barely trails so I had to walk some to figure out what happened! And my sunscreen ran into my eyes AND I got chub rubbed! But man it was a nice run!

6.25 miles tonight running 650 yards swimming

Sorry about the speeding ticket... I racked up a couple of those with my old Saab... DH has gotten one in the new Saab with the turbo. We were driving to Anchorage for a soccer tournament a couple years ago, and he got pulled over at about 2 a.m., both boys sleeping in the backseat, me dozing in the front... The trooper asked if he knew how fast he was going, and maybe it was just late enough and he was tired enough that he didn't even try to gloss it over. DH said "yeah, I had the cruise set at 88 and I think it's pretty accurate." The trooper agreed and wrote up the ticket. I was in a funk today, and most of yesterday. Yesterday was our 19th anniversary, but we've been through so much recently we didn't really feel like celebrating. Part of it was DH had shoulder surgery Monday (not as extensive as the other shoulder done in March, but still a big enuf deal), and the memorial service for a friend of ours was yesterday afternoon. Get this... she was riding her bike to church with her husband, like they do every Sunday, and she fell off and died three days later. She had a helmet on, but suffered major brain damage and never regained consciousness. Just bizarre. No hazards that they could find, just fell off her bike on the road. We were in Hawaii when we found out. I just can't get over how it happened. I think she had a stroke (she was almost 60), but I don't know if they did an autopsy. How do you just ride along and fall off your bike? So... the day was sorta gloomy for us. We went out for a quick supper at our favorite restaurant, but DH is on meds so it was pretty short. The owner (also a friend of ours) visited with us and then ended up picking up the tab, which was nice.... But I had to go shopping afterwards, one boy was at soccer the other's game was canceled so he was home... Things were just all out of sorts. LOOOOONG story to say, I missed my run. And today I was just in a dumpy mood but someone urged me to just go for a run (I did bring my stuff, which I don't usually do) and so I did. 5 miles in 41 minutes, lots of hills and sunny bikepaths, just what I needed. I feel much better, and might even get in the rest of my Wednesday miles tonight (goal was 8...). I'll worry about yesterday's missed miles at another time. Or not.