Holly, you're doing great work in the pool. Should you be signing up for a Masters' swim team?

 

 

 

 

+1  There's a Master's swim group that meets at our Y at 5:00 AM 2 or 3 days a week. I'll bet if you checked into the pool schedule, you could hook up with a team.

I always enjoy sitting down with a cup of coffee and reading Jay's excellent recaps

Hang in there Mike. You're a great father. And tell your boss to stop sending you e-mails after work hours!

Trying to channel my inner Erika this morning. The below zero temps finally left us yesterday and we got about 4 inches of snow overnight. It's still coming down, but felt like a heat wave at 32°  I slapped on my YaxTrax and headed out the door at 5:00. The plows hadn't come through at all and it was tricky going, trying to find tire tracks to run in, keep my balance and stay upright. I managed 4 miles, running when there was decent footing. When a car came down the street, I had to veer off into the deep stuff to stay out of its way. Shoes and socks were pretty wet but it felt great to get outside!

Unfortunately, no school delays. "Brunch for lunch" today: French toast sticks, hash browns and omelets. Stay warm/dry everyone!

SteveP, I wasn't sure what you were getting at in the stuff about the windows. Are you saying that you are getting some more work out of this? If so, good for you! And what kind of door goes for $100K??

Jay, living in a "developed" suburban area like I do, I never feel like I'm in any physical danger from the wildlife when running. But there's been a case or two of people being attacked by a deer (usually males in mating season or a doe with a fawn) and it was not that far away that a runner was attacked and killed by a couple of vicious "cane corso" breed dogs (the owners were sentenced to 5+ years for manslaughter). But I've also enjoyed seeing coyotes around and the idea that they might mate with wolves is a bit scary. Of course, there are no wolves around here, so I guess I'm OK on that score.

No workouts for me since Mondays and Tuesdays will be my TaxAide days thru April 18, although we're on a delayed schedule today due to getting 5" or so of snow overnight.  I have to say that dealing with the ACA stuff is very complicated -- probably the most difficult part to learn. However, they say that 95% of our clients will be seniors with Medicare, which is a no-brainer to handle (check a box and you're done).

I'm hoping that I have something to report tomorrow, when it's supposed to be mild enough that I might even be able to run outside, assuming the snow melts off by then.

Hi All,

just checking in from my snow prison. Actually, I escaped yesterday. We had just enough time to get out and DH managed to bring David and I to my parents house who live a few miles from my office.  DH barely made it home, in white-out conditions wit h vehicles sliding all over the place. My dad will drive me to work and David to school this week and hoping by the weekend, enough snow will have melted to get home. My car is still completely stuck at home. My husbands 4WD truck had a hard time getting out of our driveway. But at least for now I can get into the office and David can get to school. I've never seen so much snow here. ever. and now the rains that are coming are historic also.  DH is  stuck at home alone though - with the dogs. 

running? well, I've run once, only 2.2 miles so far this year. Needless to say, I'm changing my HM in mid Feb to the 5k. I'm so far behind my training now.

we have started getting heavy rains here too Leslie but then at night the temps get low enough that it turns to snow again. We started getting mostly heavy, non stop rains on Saturday but because the temps are just hovering right about 35-38 during the day, it's not warm enough to do any significant melting of the snow. it's just a ton of super slop. Rains are supposed to continue until about Friday, then it looks like we might have a couple days of reprieve before they start up again. of course, that's 4 days from now the forecast will change 10x before then.   But they are anticipating major flooding here too and creeks/rivers are already rising very quickly.

Good luck to those of you on the left coast

I was going to go out at 9 am, but discovered a 9:30 hair appt, so I walked there instead.  Ran a few miles at noon on paths that had been cleared, so mostly snow/ice free.  It felt almost comfortable at high 20's, sunny and no wind.

non-running - we had some placemats made from photos at shutterfly and they came out really nice - time to decide on a couple more

stay out of all extreme weather conditions (tho some of wimps think the alaskan are kinda extreme...)

marj

4.1 miles for me today.  It was so warm out...+70f and windy, very very windy but what a great day for a run!

Hello everybody!

Things did not go well for Eric in court, today.  As much as he likes to blame everybody else for his troubles, its his own fault and I don't know when, if ever, he will realize it.  Oh well--we just keep chugging along.

We got more snow, today, which meant I spent an hour after work shoveling.  I didn't sleep very well, last night, either, so I'm going to take another day off from running.  I think we're taking Eric out for his birthday, tomorrow (that will be real fun) so I probably won't get back at it until Thursday.  Which is fine...my body parts are starting to fall apart.

Just to pile on...on my way home from work, Ryan called from Oregon, to tell me his car is broken down.  From the sounds of it, I think he needs a new alternator.  I told him to have it towed to a garage and we'll take care of it.

I'm never having kids again!

Okay--that's all I got.  Thanks for listening.  See ya!