Holly, I hope the trial gym membership works out well. Also, it's got to be tough when the sports doc says you need another week without running. And another also, I got a kick out of your daughter's dog and cat adventure. It was nice to see posts from WRFB and PDR yesterday (and today). btb, thanks for the Amy update and pictures. breger, your speeding story was good. Tall that was a fine race with 5th OA and 2nd in AG. Nice long runs for craneium, biketm (only you would consider 14 miles satisfying your doctor friends suggestion to take it easy), CNY, WRFB, PDR, biketm (again), Peter, Tramps, and craneium (again and this time in the rain). Good job on the speedwork for BC and maine. This morning, it was about 60, failrly calm and clear. I got in 5 miles. I made a bathroom stop during the second mile and decided to test out the auto pause on my Garmin rather than manually stopping the watch. I don't know if it was going inside or something about the way auto pause works, but it kept starting and stopping the time rather than having it stopped the whole time. Therefore, the time for my second mile was screwed up. However, for the other 4 miles, I had a total time of a bit under 38:30 for a 9:36 pace. A good day and good runs for all. TomS

Tom - you can set the pace at which the autopause kicks in. A slow walk, or almost completely still. So if you set it for 30 min/mile it will not keep starting and stopping like it will at 20 min/mile. That sucks about Ribs. I hope the recovery is smooth. Oh yeah, no run again for me today, too busy. It's been a long time since I took 3 days off in a row. Hopefully I will find some speed waiting for me tomorrow. I had anxiety dreams last night about the Ragnar relay. Some people didn't show up on time and I had to run their sections, boy was I tired after that.

Tetsujin, gotcha last!

Thanks SR but with age being my only advantage on you, I’m hoping to get there first and get the fast genes before you. In fact, I think I'll forego running today for you. Let me know if you need any extra taper days; I have 25 so far for this month and 184 YTD I can give you..

They were not able to do the stent, it just was not a viable place to put one where it was needed.

Thanks hally. private message to the saint -check with aamos and get a new doctor for our buddy

I got a butterfly mini skirt as a gift from a friend this morning. I think I will wear it for my first leg of the race tomorrow.The comfortable Old Sweaters rocks!!!!!!!!!!

konnichi wa, chocho-san - with this weekend bein’ a scorcher, even large sweaters might feel tight so keep’ ‘em loose, . . . if at all. <>midnightmadness/midnightmadness) ps - no particular reasons, but what legs are you not wearing the miniskirt?

Stuck my nose in here and have to say I really enjoyed reading your posts!

Sorry guys, I had that backwards. If you set the Garmin to autopause at 20 min/mile, and take a potty break, it should not keep starting and stopping. I think the autopause on my brain is set pretty high, or low, or upside down or something or other.

Tim, here's what I found about pace smoothing: "Pace Smoothing averages your displayed pace over a certain amount of time to avoid errors in GPS position and speed due to varying satellite signal reception. When you turn on or increase pace smoothing, the pace displayed on your Forerunner is steadier (which means fewer large jumps)." I've been wondering about this too, as another relatively new Garmin user. I noticed that after I crested a hill and started running fast down the other side, the Garmin said my pace was 11:something, which couldn't have been right. But it was averaging over a longer period so it was still using a lot of my uphill pace in the average. If I decrease the setting it'll probably show the transition from uphill to downhill pace sooner, but might have weird spikes due to satellite signals. I guess we'll have to experiment.

Aamos, people in Maine are always quick to point out that the west coast town was named after ours! Doesn't help much, though. People still assume we're in Oregon. Once I went through a long call to reserve a car for my parents here, and emphasized, "Portland, MAINE" about three times, and the woman still got it wrong. Lots of rain here today, so I ran on the Y treadmill while two of my kids played in the pool. I decided to run 30 minutes (2.74 miles) and then stop for a walking break around the indoor track to evaluate my ankle. It felt OK, so I ran another 25:30, for a total of 5 miles. I guess the best way to describe how my ankle is doing is to say it doensn't HURT, but it feels irritated. No swelling. I think I'll keep taking pretty good breaks between each run for a little while longer. Thinking about Spareribs and praying for his family and his doctors. Hang in there!