Bugs, if you liked the Radius but they didn't have enough cusion, you might try the Glycerin. I went from the Pegasus 2006 to the Glycerin and like them much better. My dad went from the Radius to the Glycerin and says the cushion is much better. We're running in the 5, but since the 6 is out, there are a lot of sales to be found on the 5. Just got a pair of Amazon for a pretty good price.

Check in after sports med doc apt: x-ray looks great! need to go get an MRI his money is on stress fracture or tear in meniscus! Guess it will have ot wait till i'm back from the bahama's!! Guess there will be no half for me huh?

Stress fracture may heal faster. 5 easy miles today.

Shan, I have a hard time believing it could be anything so serious. Based on your log it just doesn't seem likely. Reminds me of my frend, last fall he has a stress fracture and ran a marathon THREE weeks later as a pacer. He was afaid if he didn't show they might not ask him to pace the race again. He finished but said it was not pretty. That's NUTS. Does anybody's shoes NOT show wear? It really bumbs me, because I can not figure out if I'm an overpronator or neutral. Good running forum confuses me too. In town we have a Training Facility that is some top knotch trainers from the university. They train university and high school athletes mostly, but help the OCD adult athletes too. I am considering going in for a vdeo analysis to determine biomechanical deficiencies. Then they will pitch their services. I called they said to wait to make sure I am injury free and not compensating for injury.

Ugh, mixed up schedule, stressful stuff and I'm a bit behind the gun for training this week. Did 4 miles last night, wanted to hammer them out at race pace to relieve some stress (of which I have much) but decided to take it easy. I've got two hard(ish) days back to back today and tomorrow - a 10 miler and a 15 miler. Been looking at Daniels book quite a bit lately. I really like the way he handles tempo running. Almost all of his tempo work is done as cruise intervals; he rarely has you just do X miles at tempo pace. He also has some workouts that incorporate tempo running with your long run - very cool. I might try that tomorrow. He's got a workout that looks something like this: 2 miles easy 4 x (6 @ tempo w/1 min rests) 1 hour easy 20 min tempo 2 miles easy That's approximate, I don't have the book with me. But for me, that's right about a 15 miler. If my legs are feeling up to it, I'm going to give it a shot.

Holy crap! It was +4ºC today outside and the run was amazing!!! I want spring now!! Please no more cold snaps...Bounding on Wednesday was hard because of some fresh snow (and we lost a person so I spent 20 minutes running around the neighborhood trying to find him thinking he might have gotten hurt...turns out he just went a different way...bastard...) Bugs, I'll second the opinion on the Glycerine. I am on my 3rd pair of them right now and will be buying a few more before they sell out and move to the 6 (just in case.) They are a great training shoe. Not much more to say about it, give them a try. There's some good books on running form that you could try reading. Programmed to Run is a great book and full of good information (I used it after I mentally beat myself on a 10-miler run.) There's also Chi Running that is full of some mumbo-jumbo (unless you are into that stuff, which I found it very interesting actually) but the form talks are great in it. I constantly battle with form and get yelled at when I get tired because my heels tend to shuffle on the ground when I get tired, which uses more energy but for some reason feels sooooo goood.

Murph: Take it easy and stay well. groov: You've earned warmer weather for sure. Long run on rail trail. First 10-miles in 1:26:48. Tried to do part of the second loop as a progression beginning at mile 17 but slowed down at mile 19. Finished the 20.54-miles in 3:08:40. for a 9:11mm average. 3:50 Marathon requires 8:47mm average. I'm not there yet. Don't know how much taper as well as course support would help the effort. 50 days out so I still have some work to do. Signed up for a 1/2 on March 22 so I'll have a good fitness test with time to recover.

Bugs, last year on my big PR attempt, I was my own worst enemy because I biked to work in the wind the day before.... and back home. Stupid idea. My legs were like rubber (first bike ride of the year, too!). Then, we were late and I shortchanged my warm up. Ended up doing about the same time as on the earlier icy, hilly course. So yes, the bike was probably not your best idea. You'll do better on the 5k... just learn from the stuff that didn't work!! (I'm really out to better that time this year....) No run for me yesterday. I actually took a scheduled rest day as planned. Not sure how that happened... Waiting for it to warm up a bit before I head out for my 9 or so today. I'll stay close to home and start with the hilly road, then go down the bikepath which I noticed was plowed yesterday (yeah!). If I repeat a couple of sections, I should be able to get 9 out of it (the hilly road route is 3.1, the bikepath roundtrip is 4.5... just need to backtrack a bit somewhere). Groov, yeah on above freezing temps! I'd hardly know what to do with myself. It's zero F now, waiting to see a little above before I head out but this is about the warmest I've run in ages so might just go soon. Tomorrow I think I'll try for my 19 or 20 instead of the 12. Switch weeks, so I can have a mini-taper before the relay! Have a good weekend, everyone! It's looking pretty good around here! ETA: just back from 9 miles of hills in temps ranging from zero to -5 or so at the bottom of the hill. Slight wind on the uphill trip made it just that much harder. Legs were tired today, don't know why after yesterday's nice rest day. They obviously didn't appreciate it!