tetsujin209 my solution to the toenail problem has been to wrap medical tape around them prior to each run. I am proud to report that after doing this steadily for about 8 months now I now have only one black toenail! Wahoo! My TP keeps trying to get me to run with her at the beach, likely barefoot, I should introduce the two of you. When are you coming to CT? TammyinGP hope your 10K race/run went well. I know the feeling of hitting the starting line and knowing it will be a "race" in name only. BCMorant I hope your 12 miler goes well today. nonoruns running in 91° heat builds character! But you do lose points for the low humidity. Spareribs I was glad to read today that you seem to be recovering well. Best of luck going forward and I hope everything progresses on track. evanflein from your post I cannot really figure out if you are doing the Gold Discovery Run on Sunday. In case you are, and in case I cannot find the time to post here I just wanted to wish you luck and speedy legs on Sunday. Tallrunner sorry but your claims of a "slow" pace are just never credible. We all know how fast you run. mainerunnah Good luck with the heat and humidity at your 5 mile race today. deez4boyz wow a tough few nights! Tough to run after that, nice that you managed anything. The Jogger nice run with your DW. DickyG Nice 4 miler. But finding out I am the only one here without a Nike contract has me all bummed out . . . Also I am going to cheat by posting today's (non-target) race report here in the daily so as to keep my deficit down to one race! Peter NC great job on the 16 miler today! As I keep saying, in my book heat and humidity beats winter running any day! enkephalin here is hoping your 16 mile run today goes well. Dave59 lol! After yesterday's quandary you did something totally different! Good luck with your training for your HM this fall. henrun see note to Peter NC above. Sounds like an attractive route. halllar you get points for the 7.2 miles and the humidity. But only 71°? You need to go out later in the day! lyndenrunner nice 8 miler. dg. when my DW gets sinus infections they often stick around until she gets on antibiotics. I hope yours goes away faster and on its own. CNYrunner nice 10 mile run and at a very nice pace. I ran the 4.07 mile race today in the local town series. No, I do not make these distances up. The RD apparently just map out courses some time ago without a care for standard distances. My pre-race preparation was a marathon last Sunday (Editor: That race report? You know we have deadlines to meet around here! Twocat: *slinks away*) and a 60th birthday party last night for a long time friend of mine. I have to say birthday parties with superb wine and food are terrible preparation the night before a race! But boy was it good! Well, until I got on the scale this morning. Today is definitely a light eating day! Ok, now that I have my excuse list up: my race time was way off my PR for this course of 26:38. All I could manage today was a 28:09. That was good enough for 17 OA, which moved me up up three spots over last year when I finished 20th OA. Given my excuse list I am not complaining. (Editor: No, what do you call this? Twocat: Reporting! ) Given everything it was a good effort on my part and I think a good workout as I prepare for the fall long distance races. Finally, since this seems to be the theme of the week yes, it was hazy, hot and humid but to be honest heat and humidity seem to affect me less than most people. Post-race my friend's DW commented that I must be a hot weather runner since everybody was all red other than me. What can I say other than I inherited it from my dad who just loved to go out in blistering heat and high humidity. Thanks dad! Good runs all! Enjoy the day.

Perch, you ran almost 19 miles a week after your marathon? In hot weather? You da man! Ribs, glad to hear you're doing well after your procedure - thanks for keeping us posted. And Riblet sure is a cute kid! Karin - welcome back! I climbed about half of the high peaks in the Adirondacks with the Outing Club in college, and have fond memories of the area. Of course, "high peaks" is all relative - I think they count anything over 4,000 ft, right? Here in Colorado there are 54 high peaks - over 14,000 ft. I've climbed about half of them, too. Twocat, I liked your thoughts on every run having a purpose. Yeah, the purpose is to enjoy running and life. Glad you enjoyed your 4.07 mile race! DickyG, I'm glad you enjoy your watch-less runs. I certainly wasn't suggesting that you leave the watch at home every day, but for recovery runs, pace isn't important at all. Unless you need a watch to make sure you keep your pace slow enough, which has never been my problem! Erika, good luck at your race tomorrow. Do they give gold prizes? Tet, I wish I could run barefoot around here, but all we have are rough dirt roads. I did walk barefoot in the grass at the golf course next to my office on Thursday, though. DG, I liked the quote. Thanks! Deez4, hope you get some time off! And glad to hear you're running again. Holly, rest up and get better soon. And keep posting! OK, after all this talk about running watch-less, yesterday my new Garmin arrived in the mail! DH got it for me for my birthday. Last night I went out for 3 miles with the dogs right before dinner, and I swear I could leap tall buildings in a single bound! Actually my average pace was only 11:08 but it said my fastest pace was 7:08! I had fun running fast downhill and watching the pace to see how fast I could make it, without watching it so much I tripped! Then this morning I went out for 7 miles, the first 1.4 with the dogs. Mid 50's to start and mid 60's by the end. Lots of hills on this route, avg pace 12:30, but the fastest was 6:57! The main reason I asked for a Garmin is so I can track distance on trail runs, but I'll certainly use the other features too. New toy!

12.2 mile LR for me today. The weather was almost perfect for running. 64F, humidity around 75% and foggy. The mist from the fog really kept me cool. I did the first 3 miles on the track, then 6.2 miles over my hilly course and then the last 3 miles on the track again. My time was 2:07:55 a 10:30/mi pace. I still felt strong at the end, I did the last mile in 9:24. Have a great rest of the weekend everyone. Bruce

Carolyn: Congrats & enjoy your new toy! run w/o it sometimes tho 8.47 slowish miles along a river w/the TNT group this am ....including several "water breaks" for Mairead..glad we started out early - it's already pushing 90 degrees @ noon!....heading up to 10,000' el. (where it's much cooler) for a longer run in the am... Have a great weekend everybody!

Erika - that sounds like fun. Hope your race went well today.

Actually... it's tomorrow. But thanks. And yes, Twocat I'm definitely doing it. No gold prizes, Wildchild, but free beer and burgers at the finish! (that's my incentive for finishing as soon as I can... first year I ran it I did about 2:24 I think, and just got one beer at the end before it ran out. Last year I won my AG with 2:12 something, and got 2 beers! This year my goal is 2:10... it's one of my "goal" races this year but between the travel I've done and being sick, I must say I'm not holding out too much hope. Especially if it's muddy (no rain yet though, so there's hope!). I remember "camping out" in the living room, but it was under a blanket draped over the table. We camped out in the backyard quite a bit when we were kids. I remember that being fun stuff... but it didn't get dark! My plan is for 5-6 easy miles, and I might just do them on the treadmill. I find that's the only 100% guarantee I have of controlling pace and incline, and I really don't want to over do anything today (although I still have weeds in the garden...!).

plans for an easy ultra-pace in the 3.3 mile Crown of Queen Anne Hill we use for our annual RunningBarefoot.org's PNW championships fizzled as new pavement for the first 2/3 of a mile had me surging out too fast and then getting passed by an AG nemesis as the pavement reverted back rougher old stuff that had me puffing to keep him in sight until more blessed new pavement at the end permitted a steady 3/4 mile fartlek to the finish almost a minute ahead of him. First time in a long time to race an event instead of just for fitness; was kind of fun. Still lots of time this weekend for everyone else to take your shoes off too for a block or a mile. find some smooth bike path pavement or something and your feet will thank you. I'll be walking most of the way in tomorrow's rocky trail version so would appreciate everyone else's soles on lucious grass wherever you are.

Bill, you are running short, fast paced races in the summer in FL. Times are going to be slow, but you are doing the right thing by getting this kind of work in. Come fall, you will be a killer. Stay with it. Bruce, nice job. Congrats. Holly, it will go away when it goes away. I've had this. It's a muscle strain and it will take time. Sorry, but just keep at it. Tet, I give you my word that when I get well and can run again, I'll go out and do a virtual barefoot run with you. You are still an inspiration. (BTW, I got you good on Twocat's RR.) Spareribs

Tet, I give you my word that when I get well and can run again, I'll go out and do a virtual barefoot run with you. Spareribs

Ohh...can my butterfly wings run with you two? That would be so much fun to run between my two boy friends!!!