good morning all, everyone must be out running....or sleeping in! i'm posting friday's run - didn't have time yesterday since we had to leave for the west side of the mountains a day early because the northern route was closed again for avalanche risk. 3 more miles, slower than molasses in hotter than hades weather - or at least if felt that way probably it must have been at least 75F at the time. though it was up to 90 by the time we left winthrop; a few days ago DH was snowed on while mushroom picking and now it's in the 90s! we are in seattle where we had dinner last evening with DS2 and his future wife as well as DS 1 and wife; fjorddaughter is up in anacortes where i will go to her wedding shower later today. two weddings ahead! anyway, wishing good saturday runs to all - and hoping to see more of riblet and the new family member, susan (who may or may not get more miles in today, depending...)

Morning all, I've been busy lately and haven't been running as much as I usually do. 10.14 miles of hills @ 9:13 pace today...beautiful morning here. I have lots of outdoor chores to do after breakfast, the first being cutiing thel grass for a couple of hours, then more stuff to plant in the new vegetable garden. Enjoy the day. (edited to include garden photo)

dawndaughter2 is coming over from Baltimore today to help me in the garden. What a good girl.

Well, somebody has to make up for that slacker husband of yours. Peter - nice garden. Gotta keep out those bunnies, huh? Speaking of bunnies, that pace bunny has gotten ahead of me, I think. I have been deliberately avoiding looking at the standings, given that would only have motivated me to run when I shouldn't. Having said that, with some wood-knocking, I think I might be able to ramp up again. Today's 7 went well, so I'm planning a longer run tomorrow. Workout: 6.2 miles, 8:18/mi, AHR 160 Overall: 7.2 miles, 59:15 Have a great weekend, and go racers!

Beautiful morning here as well after some heavy and steady rain last night. Everything looks scrubbed clean now. I ran 6.8 miles with two of the Js (Canada J and Spicy J). We chattered away and the run ended all too quickly. Happy to be out there---53F and bright sunshine. Nice garden photo Peter and while I won't have a garden helper like PDR, I have to get out there at some point today. The ground is nice and soft for pulling weeds. The kiddo has a baseball game in a couple of hours and then a hockey awards banquet and then maybe some gardening time this afternoon. Great handle for your kid evryday! I laughed out loud. Good Luck tomorrow Jlynne---run between the raindrops. Long run tomorrow with Iron J---already looking forward to it. CNYrunner

Well, first things first: happy birthday to my lovely wife The Saint. I'll cook something nice for dinner tonight, maybe steak and salmon on the grill and we'll eat outside on this gorgeous spring day. Peter, that's some nice garden. We now have a name. Riblet, after seeing the gleam in the pup's eyes, probably figures that one day she'll have a lot of explainin' to do and so has named her Lucy. First trip to the vet today and she checks out well. She was very good in her cage last night and I got up early and took her outside. Everything going well so far. Thanks everyone for your kind wishes. 4.4 slow miles today on the dirt track, wrapping up a 30-mile week. I have been fatigued and slow the last 3 days and have concluded I might ease back next week. I will see how tomorrow's long run goes. That should be a good indicator. Spareribs

Happy Birthday to the Saint!!!. Lucy seems to be a perfect name for the precious puppy. Did she keep you awake all night SR? This is the weekend our county has the annual "Relay for Life" event. So I decided this morning to run to the next town to run around the track were the event is taking place and then run back home. I ran 5 eze pace miles to the track, 5 miles at 9:30 pace in the track and then decided to take the long way home, up a respectable hill, across the orchard lane and back home. 16 miles for the day. I am pretty happy with the effort Now is time to feed some hungry teenagers who are hanging out at my house to celebrate DS2's birthday. We have 7 teenagers right now and I have been told that 12 or more will be showing up. It is a good thing that I love cooking. Fjordrunner you are home!!!! hurray. Have fun with the wedding shower and preparations.

4 and a half miles this morning. Nice, no, beautiful garden, Peter, I am so envious... Nice runs, Bruce and Mary!!! It's cleared off nicely here, so I may have to cut the lawn... Chris