Quote from Bugs: They did a cat-scan and found nothing in my head, go figure. This is priceless. I couldn't let it pass. Think you got it from Grandma Erika? wink.

bye bugs we'll miss you!!! good luck in your zen state!!

MrI: Go get'em tomorrow! You will sub 2:00. Good running! Finished up the week with an easy 4. Will take Saturday off and head to St. Louis. Bib number is 584. Hope I sleep well the next two nights. No issues or soreness. They've taken the ran out of Sunday's forecast so 40's at start and 60's later in the day. Look like things are falling into place for this one.

They did a cat-scan and found nothing in my head, go figure.

This has got to be the quote of the year. Take care of yourself, Bugs. See you when you get back. {{Bugs}} MrI, I told myself last year that 2008 would be the year I do my first Ultra. Seeing as how there are none around here and my travel budget has been axed, I'm not sure how I'll do that, but hey the year is still young, right? and I agree with P2R that the sub-2 is yours for the taking! P2R, good luck to you, too! Adventure racing... hmmm, well they've started a trail series here locally so I'll do some of those, but I don't think any are even HM length. But get me off the roads for the most part, so that'll be nice. Gotta find something really different from running along bikepaths... Speaking of bikepaths, had a nice run in shorts last night! Woohoo! Cash would've laughed at my moon-glow legs, but it was 50F and no wind... couldn't resist. Running over snow on the shaded section of the trail in shorts was fun. 7.07 miles, 59:22.... last 2 miles nice and EZ with DH. Rest day today, but some sort of VRAA point activity will happen.

salad - good luck!!! you'll do great!!! Erica - you could make an ultra - go all Race Director on us!!! That would certainly keep you busy! And then you wouldn't have to travel or pay an entrance fee!! Mr I and Pace - GOOD LUCK!!!!!! Race well race hard! 7 miles for me today! Haven't posted in the last couple days because I skipped a run and did not make it up... but got out there today and had a great time!! Minus the emergency potty stop... 3 tomorrow... It's funny how after 3 no running days i could keep not running, but then I run and i remember why!

I'm going for my first sub 4:00. In 2006 it took me 4:19 to run St. Louis. I used a spreadsheet I got from a forum at RW and printed a pace band for 3:55 that takes into account course profile. It will help to know which miles to speed up and which miles not to beat myself up with trying to hold an even split. I think I'm two good nights sleep away from finally doing it. My 5k and 1/2 times from March project it's possible, I just need to not run myself out of it early and handle the hills between miles 24 and 25.

I'll pass along my best wishes for our racers this weekend (P2R, Mr. I, Salad, I apologize if I missed anyone). Bugs has invisible friends. Interesting. Not sure about invisible but we've kept you in our prayers at this end