Good morning, everyone! (nice summary, Holly) Ah, recovery. Got to sleep in late (!), until 4:30. Sigh. 3.1 miles, 30:07, 9:35/mi, AHR 127 (64% mhr)

Today was one of those wonderful days where the training plan goes perfectly. I got a good night's sleep of 9 hours. Feeling great. Bill

Hopelessly behind in reading here. Woo hoo! for PBJ's first PBJ Special in quite a while! Easy 3.5 @ 8:15.

Did you say 20 miles on the high school track? Nicely done!

Spareribs while the Saint's PR is quite impressive it, in my humble opinion, pales alongside the fact that you were pacing a HM at all. Here you are running a race the vast majority of the world could never do at a pace that would collapse most in less than a mile. More to the point it was not all that long ago you were in the hospital recovering from open heart surgery! Your recovery has been simply amazing. It also shows that if you stay in shape and seek to get back into it after a major setback you can and will make it! Very, very impressive on your part. jules2 congratulations on the first place AG award! henrun nice job on the race to you and Marj. wildchild you are not married until you are married. Sorry you only get 20 years credit according to the official what anniversary are you on manual. But the good news is 20 is one of those big number years so you should be able to extort collect a big time present! Holly S. I would go for hot chocolate. Anything that takes any work will likely be safe from the local poachers. I did some gym work today. Now off to my workplace office for the day and meetings this afternoon. Yech!

Short run this morning so I managed to squeeze in some catch-up reading.… belated comments… Slo-hand—I’m always impressed by your well-rounded cross-training. Well done. Ribs—to be honest, I have very mixed feelings about your conversion to a dog-lover. There was something endearing about the grumpy curmudgeon persona. And now you’ve become one of those people who dress their dogs in a party hat. Sad. (Nice pic of Riblet, though.) stumpy—sorry to hear of your problems; best of luck on the recovery Holly—that was a super race! Nice job and #1 AG! Francesca—18 in the rain; you’re tough! Followed by 13 in the rain? Wow. Moose—glad to hear you’re having a “do over”; you deserve better weather. Have you picked it yet? Byll—nice MP run on Sunday! Perch—20 in the rain! (see Francesca above). Ribs—nice race for the Saint and nice job pacing, despite the early pacer problem. I’ve given up on pace teams. The two times I informally started with a pace group, the pacer went out way too fast and (fortunately) I let go of them within the first two miles. Eliz—great job hitting double digits in a training run! jules—congrats on the HM AG win! And this after an injury?! PDR—nice 20 miler bouncing back from last week. Wildchild—that’s funny about your anniversary. We do the same thing. DW and I were together for 20 years before we got legally married. I may have mentioned that we first resisted getting married in part out of solidarity with gay/lesbian friends who didn’t have that option. Fast forward twenty years and the tables had turned. When I left my job and needed to get on DW’s insurance, we had to get married because her employer offered health insurance to unmarried gay/lesbian partners but not straight partners! As we joke, “Solidarity has its limits.” Henry—so great to read about you and Marj racing together. I agree with Ribs’ comments, too! Marj—neat to hear your positive take on negative splits. srlopez—I’ve always appreciated that you march to the beat of your own drummer, doing marathons on your own terms. 200 are just amazing; 200 in eight years is unfathomable. I assume you’re donating your body to science. busiman—that sounds like a wonderful VT run…and quite the pace, too. Sue--twenty on a track?! 80 laps? 320 corners? Wow!

Just a quick hello....hello everyone Hey, I finally learned how the post a picture....cool . Here is just a random race picture at the end of a 1/2 Ironman... experimenting around posting a picture for the first time. I will have to work on getting pictures bigger, and more clear though. Still goofing around with posting pics....cool thats better. Before anyone asks, that is too small swim cap and my swim goggles on my head, as people have questioned about before. Now if I only had a picture phone, I could post some really cool and silly stuff I see. Hope everyone has a great day....I am waaaay behind here, but trying to get caught up with my good friends here at RA. TimBo