Thanks for getting us going Joe! That humidity will get ya everytime! I can take the 80 degree temp, but mix that with 90% humidity and you got a tough run ahead of you. Still very hot here and of course always humid in the summer. No running this weekend and I don't feel guilty. I got lots and lots of school work done, including preparing my speech which includes 2 visuals and got all my astronomy homework done and completed my Legal Terminology assisgnment and quiz. That's my online class. I hate online quizzes. They are timed and my fingers start sweating right when I click the start quiz link. A tad bit of housework (bathrooms) and I'm now gonna go watch some football! Hot diggity dog, the Colts won! Jewels

Thanks Joe, heat and humidity will zap my runs quicker than anything!! Jewels wow school is keeping you hopping this weekend. Round 2 of the Achilles tendonitis hit yesterday. Too muddy to run out here so went to town and ran the 5 k course too fast so between the harder surface and fast pace I was fired up pretty good last night to the point of limping again. I was going to try for a 12 miler today but after yesterday figured that would just about put me down for the year and settled for a very slow 4 and seemed to get along ok. Tendons never felt good during the run but not terrible either and feel pretty good this evening as opposed to how I felt last night. Got the run done and grabbed a bite and some more coffee then hooked up grain cart we put the scales in to the tractor, lifted it off the jack stands and powered up the console and wah la!! I stepped up on the tongue and it weighed me correctly YAY!!! Moved that rig out of the way and pulled the auto steer tractor with grain drill (wheat seeder) up to the shop and finished it up and then roaded it to the first field. Moved the semi with wheat seed out by the bins, dropped the forklift off the 4020 tractor (90hp little) hooked it up to an auger and swung the hopper under the semi. Then we hooked the 2.5 ton truck to a seed tender and ran that rig under the auger and loaded 200 bushel of seed. Then we hooked my ford pickup to a 1000 gallon liquid fertilizer trailer and pumped it full from storage. We moved both rigs to the field filled with seed and fert and spent the rest of the afternoon dialing in down pressure, seeding depth and rate and fertilizer rate. Satisfied with all we called it a day 'bout 6:30pm after only seeding about 8-10 acres but will go fast now, just get in and go. The fall farming campaign is now underway so I guess a good time to cut back and get healthy. No substantial races on the calendar, maybe shoot for a spring HM somewhere.

Hi Everyone, Wow, everyone is so busy with school work, housework, and crop work. My weekend was spent mostly doing housework, it just seems to never get caught up. Then I thought I would take the '77 VW Bug Convertible for a cruise, and once I got it started, it was leaking gasoline! Not a good thing. I had to leave it in the driveway, so it wouldn't leak gas in the garage, and the smell into the house. Today is time to call the mechanic, then the tow truck. This week I go back for my 4 week check up after my surgery. I should get the go ahead to start running. I went for a brisk walk Saturday, and it felt so good, but many times along the way I wanted to just start jogging. But I held back. It's still a little too warm in the afternoon after work to go outside, but the mornings on the weekends are nice. So weekdays are treadmill days, then the weekends I get to play outside. Salty

I guess it's a "Good Afternoon!" Thanks for starting us out Joe...sorry 'bout the sucky run I think we all get those sometimes...that H&H woulda kicked my butt too! Sounds like you're rolling well w/the homework Jewels! always feels good to get a load done! Leslie: don't forget to consider when we're all getting together whilst working out your race schedule ....we never did work out what we should do.....?? Carol: GLAD Ike missed you guys!! also glad it didn't kick up to a high cat 4 like they thought it was going to!!! Galveston looks pretty bad as it is! So, did you get a little run in the cooler temps this am? Diana: Good to hear from you...& it's wonderful that you're healing so quickly! hopefully Doc will kick ya loose any day now! Jim: on second thought, mebbe I DONT wanna do cross training w/you guys!! you work waaaay too hard! I didn't watch FB yesterday - just some of the highlights on eve news...although it would've been a cool game to have been able to make/go to...home opener...granddaughter's 1st season game on the field @ halftime as a Junior Denver Broncos Cheerleader ...It was just that I'd spent the entire week cleaning house & prepping for a houseFULL of guests for my niece's bachelorette party! (wedding is next wknd) 16 people staying @ my house through the wknd!!...and I did get in 18m w/the TNT folks on Saturday am - just barely before the 1st 5 showed up! Was a bit hardish - just never had a point where it got "easy" but was still motoring along w/o too much trouble & then came up on a couple of the women having much bigger issues - one having some muscle spasms, another having some intense foot pain...since this is supposed to be a "team effort" and I myself was having a bit of a sucky run anyway....I walked w/them in to a point where a coach could come pick them up (4 miles reeeal slow) then jogged the rest of the way in myself...my feet really didn't like walking that far in the middle of a long run!! so I guess I actually only ran 14 miles of the 18 I traveled... And THEN the coaches ganged up on me & told me that they want me to knock off the boot camp & other "extra" stuff until the marathon! "Just follow the training schedule as it is. Nothing else!" WTH!? I was nearly the last one off the course because I stayed with a couple of women having a difficult day - not because I was injured!! Aww well, maybe it's a good idea anyway..I was planning to drop boot camp in another week or two anyway.....except that the TNT schedule by itself is only about 60% of the mileage that my other schedule calls for...?? I'll chew on that a bit.. 5 weeks to go...and I am REALLY looking fwd to just going out for a run just for the sake of running! Rest day (as in no run) on Sunday (but w/a couple of cocktails) & felt sleep deprived the whole day!! Got in 6.9 rolling hilly miles w/Mairead this am though...@ a pretty steady 10:58 pc/155 AHR not too bad after the insane wknd! Doug didn't get his long run in for the wknd either....didn't get any runs in whatsoever due to....stuff! and he has a HM next Sunday...I'm volunteering to hand out Gatorade free tech shirt for "working" it!

Kelly - congrats to Jack, what an amazing achievement! I looked at the topos and maps and that route ain't no joke! Looks like a potential for lots of exposure to extreme temps. Joe - ugh, sorry to hear that you had a bad day.. seems to me that even though we learn that bad days happen, they're still...well...um...bad. Jewels - keep on plugging away with your classes! All my, shall we say, "mature" students are the stars...people who have been through some knocks and who know what hard work really means. Leslie- mopping, schmopping. Forget that. Tell hub to pay for a cleaning lady, you've got a run to do while he watches football with his fat pals (then run and duck...) Jim - I don't know exactly why your report is fascinating, but it is, I just imagine you chugging along with machine-like efficiency. I can't believe you do all that and keep a running schedule as well! Carol! It's 61F! Go run! Now! What I'd give for 61 right now! It hasn't been 61 here for months! Salty - OH! I'm so proud of you! It must be so hard to resist just pushing a little bit...sounds as though you're pushing just right! Kelly - Phooey! Only YOU know what you can do, not coaches, take it with a grain of salt. You already know to be careful and listen for warning signs. Some of these coaches seem to get a bit of a god complex, eh? Nothing much new here, just steady miles. As the temps inch slightly lower, it's been nice to see my heartrate go down and pace go up. I think the HR is slightly lower and the pace slightly higher than where I left off in the spring - just a hunch. More important, those little aches and pains I used to feel are almost nonexistent, I think the weeks and months of steady, slow miles are paying off in terms of just hardening up the ol' bod. I'm gonna need it the next 3 - 4 months. Arla

EEEEWWWWWW!!!!!! Leslie! Upon my feelings of training madness....ahem, missing just running for the sake of running....Me & Mairead did a little creek migration this am....w/a coupla bursts interspersed to it would look like a "real" run to the log ....6.92 mi in 90 mins....auto-pause said we messed around in the creek for a total of 22 mins.... 61* F/28% H beeootifully clear blue CO am

Hi Folks ~ busy buncha bipeds we are... Carol- Good Luck with your race!!! Sounds like you have a good handle on it. I try to plan (start out)conservatively then see how you feel on the course. Glad Ike missed you, so many areas,as you know, that were not so lucky. Happy too that it's cooled off for you. Arla- your log (I peeked) is a model of consisitency. Good Job! Great when you see and feel results from all the workouts that you've done.Good news that it's cooler for you too. Leslie- hope DH and yourself are feeling better.I'll refrain from the very obvious jokes that could come up in such a situation. Aw crap, one snuck out. And Carol's right, whatta ya waiting for? Write a lot and often and see where it goes.You write very well here. Cindy- you're making me and Buddy jealous with all that creek fun.Nothing he likes better than to get as wet and muddy as possible.Good luck to Doug in his race. Wtg helping out those ladies.Maybe coach is right,after all,you do have a marathon coming up! Salty- you'll be picking up the pace soon enough.Good job listening to Doc and taking it easy. Hope those temps drop for you as well. Jewels- sounds like you have your hands full with school.You must be worn out by the end of the day from juggling all that! How did you become a Colts fan? Are you from Baltimore or Indiana? Jim- just wanted to let you know that I'm not dissing you by putting you at the bottom of our posts.Us guys have to stick together but ladies first, ya know! Take it easy on your bod so you can have a good fall of running. Sounds like you're doing enough working out from working! Back in the saddle tonight for 8.5m @ 9:30 ish around the other reservoir. It's a paved 1.6m loop so I tend to feel like a hamster after 5 loops. Worked on my pushup plan and finally (on the sixth try) got through w6d1 !!! That is sets in this order; 50 + 40 + 36 +30 + 51 = 207. All with only a short break in between. Whew ,that was tough. Somehow soon all this is going to be able to allow me to do a 100 pushups in a row !!?!? I think this willl require a bit more practice...... Have a good Weds