Leslie--Sounds like a blast.  I do believe that food eaten during charitable pursuits has little or no caloric value   And almost 7 miles at any speed is nothing to sneeze at.

I made it out for a mostly run 5.5 mile loop.  Unfortunately it was at 8:30 and temps already over 70.  first time this summer at the temp and definitely not acclimated.  But distance is distance and every little bit counts.

Happy sunday all.

Thanks for getting us going Leslie and sounds like you had a good time. The food sounds yummy, with a capital YUM!

Stumpy, your darn right every bit counts. Nice 5.5 for you in the warmth!

Just a quick check-in.........

Enjoy what is left of your Sunday and have a great week everyone.

Jewels

Hi folks -- I kinda want awol towards the end of the week, and missed catching up w/ you.

Leslie, I'm thinking you pre-burned a few calories last weekend.  Glad you got to enjoy that dinner.

Stumpy, I hear you on the hot weather.  Covering the distance is where it's at, and you did!

Hiya Jewels!

Hi to everyone else.  Hope to keep up with you a little better this week, at least the beginning.  Heading to Nashville for a mini-vacation at the end of the week.  Why Nashville?  Because we've never been there and the flights aren't full so we can probably get there/home .  Worked out every day except Thurs this week.  10.5 miles on my mtn bike this morning before church, 5.5 mile run/walk/coffee w/ my friend yesterday (outdoors - yay..only got up in the 90's yesterday), elliptical-weights-swim Friday, treadmill run Wed, etc.  Well, you get the picture....cross training is where it's at for me these days and my body seems to be liking it pretty well. 

Leslie - dammit, you're making me hungry! I really try not to do the late-night snacking thing! Hope you're enjoying your family as much as you're enjoying the eating

 Jewels - we'll always be here to kick ya in the butt. 

Joe - the long, consistent weeks are really paying off, aren't they? You've been sticking to it and keeping healthy, way to go!

Stumpy - try to get out when the sun's not on ya. I swear by it, seriously, I prefer 95 - 100 (tonight's run, felt just fine) vs. 73 and sunny (Wed. am run, had to bag it early).  Let me know what you think if you try it, I keep thinking something's wrong with me.

Hey, where's Ev?

We are having a major, dangerous heat wave...well it's been a couple years, so I guess we're due. Day after day of 105, 114, 107, 109 etc, with lows only down to the mid-70s, and no end in sight. But running in the dark when I can is working out ok, and I have lovely, cool, San Francisco (half) marathon this weekend, oh, and did someone say something about eating? Just thinking about San Francisco makes me hungry....uh oh!

Arla

Arla - Good luck this weekend in SF.  I'm sure the temps will be a tad cooler than what you've been enduring.

Joe - Don't think about any carpy weather that may be down the road.  Enjoy this (and your lower utility bill!) for now.

5 miles this a.m. with 6 x 3 intervals (at least I guess that's what you'd call them).  Drove over to the zoo so I could run them on flat road.  I think I programmed my Garmin wrong because it lapped every 3 minutes the entire 5 miles as opposed to just the 6 x 3 intervals when I had it start clocking them down. Oh well.

Camethisclose to a frigging bathroom incident!  Let's just say that if it'd been a little bit darker, I would've dug a whole in someone's yard.  Cripes, the 10 min walk - I absolutely could not run - to the grocery store was sheer agony.  Guess all the eating I did this weekend didn't appreciate the speed work.   However, family left this a.m., so it's back to eating normal again (too bad).

Later, kids ~

Oh - There was a Kelly sighting over on the Trail Runner forum:

Hi Guys!  Thanks for the busy beaver comment-I don't know what I've been doing.  Work is keeping me busy, the kids are out of school and one is working the other I'm keeping somewhat busy thanks to some help from my parents but now he's home bored to death.  Busy training-I'm 10 weeks out from my 100 miler?  Something like that.

Last weekend was the VT100 which I crewed for Jack and he won!!!  He had a great race-finished in 16:36 which is not a PR for him but within a 10 min range of the past 2 years finish time.  He had one other runner hanging with him until mile 88 where he was finally able to slip away while he was in the John and won with about a 40min gap.  Jack is the first VT male to ever win the VT100 in its 21 yr history and Ultrarunning suggested he could be the oldest winner of a major ultra ever at 51yrs old.  I sent this info to the AARP Magazine-we'll see if they call for an interview .

My training is going well.  I ran the Finger Lakes 50 mile on July 4.  The mud was so deep and plentiful I finished in 10:04 about an hour slower than last year but still placed the same-second female overall and first master female.  13 out of 23 that finished-about half the field dropped to the 50K because of the mud-weenies!

My family life has been keeping me busy in that when you mix two divorced people and one has kids (teenagers now) things don't always go as smoothly as other families appear to be.  I've been grappling with what to do internally and still haven't come up with any solution.  This isn't exactly something I want to be posting on the internet so we'll leave it at this and things will work out somehow.

I do miss you guys but there's just not enough time in the day.  Keep up the good work!

Happy Trails,  Kelly

Kinda quiet in here the last couple of days.  You'd think it was summertime!

3 lackluster miles in heavy fog and humidity followed by 1 hr of core/strength.  Only had time for 2 sets of each exercise.  With a new job looming larger in front of me, I'm gonna have to start dragging my butt out of bed by 4:00/4:30 (depending on the scheduled workout).  No more sauntering in to work somewhere between 8:30 and 9:00. {{sigh}} Real jobs suck.

Enjoy the downhill slide to Friday ~

Morning -

Arla - Yea! on the escrow.  Ugh! on the cost of air conditioning.  I won't tell you that this a.m. at work I had to come in and pump up the heater 'cause I was cold . . . .

Hi to everyone else!  (waving  madly)

5 miles w/sprints every 10 minutes.  Total time 47:13:21 for a 9:27 ap.  Was suppose to be 6, but Mother Nature had other ideas.   Also another morning of sucky weather.  Damp and heavy.  Bleck, bleck, bleck.

When I got home, The Hub was already up and fixing breakfast.  Very sweet of him, but unfortunately, it wasn't what I wanted, and now it's sitting like a big ball of  in my gut.  Me and eating right after working out is not a good combo.  I usually have to wait an hour, but will have a glass of milk and Ovaltine.

We're trying to adopt the neighbors' cat away from them.  They feed her, I'm assuming, but I don't think they give her any attention and she's an absolute love bug.  She popped in the back door this a.m. while I was feeding the boys, so she got the have an early breakfast, too.  The way I figure it, they can keep her up on her shots, etc., and we can do all the lovin'.  Works for me!