Mornin' everyone.

Sunday’s serendipitous workouts & races:

RunnerKSA (4.5 peaceful, cloudy deer-free miles)

BerthaSlayer (1 TM recovery mile after yesterday’s half)

Tramps (13 train-wreck miles in warm/humid weather)

CMDan (3.1 quick miles)

Marj (lots ‘o walking)

Pfriese (3:47:43 in OKC Marathon for another BQ)

Catwhoorg (9.2 pre-wedding miles, including 4 X 1200 VO2 max intervals)

Holly (15.2 miles)

Evanflein (14.1 miles, feeling hard from the start, with stretching stops)

Wildchild (14 trail miles with impressive company)

Mariposai (18 miles: 5K [2nd AG], then post-nap 15 miles)

RunnerKSA, congrats on your 666 day streak!

Welcome back, BerthaSlayer. Congrats on finishing the trail half, especially with a chest cold.

Wise words on adjusting to H&H, Tramps. Yes, it is serious trouble when we stop sweating!

Congrats on the high-mileage month in nearly a year, Catwhoorg.

Congrats on another BQ, Pfriese.

Rochrunner, Spring weather (at least around here) is all over the place temperature-wise, making consistent workouts challenging.

Creative cross-training, Dave. Does anti-matter matter at all?

Holly, you never cease to amaze me, and your days would definitely wear me out. I’m glad Rosie is keeping up the good fight (with the slipper).

Evanflein, I hope you let the guy with the loader know about all the damage he did, and the town’s road crew too. They really need to be told when they screw up, otherwise they may never know, and may do it again. Congrats on the 200-mile month.

I’m very sorry about Gabbi’s passing, Spacityrunner. A sad time, indeed.

Congrats on the monthly prime, Wildchild, and on meeting and running with Tonia.

Big congrats on a successful weekend of race organizing and racing, Mariposai.

Thanks for your good wishes and prayers for our relatives. DW’s sister and her DH are still in the hospital. BIL had surgery (broken foot) yesterday, and SIL is scheduled for today/tomorrow. They’ll both need some serious rehab and recovery time, but we think they’ll be OK. They were hit head-on by another car that was going too fast around a curve and went into the lane of oncoming traffic. Unfortunately, the other driver didn’t survive the crash. Very scary and sad all around. DW will likely be flying down tomorrow to help out, at least through the rest of this week. Most of the rest of the family (13 siblings) are lining up to take turns doing whatever needs to be done.

SRD to start the month, with lots of stretching and core work.

Have a greta Monday!

Jay

Jay--glad there's plenty of family to help out after the accident.  ("SRD"?)

Dave--loved the Dave/Holly "question". 

Mariposai's organizing races, placing in her 5K AG, and then going out for a 15-miler! Helluva weekend

Wildchild--I think I'd be rolling around in that snow to cool off.  Hard to believe; 90F+ both days here this weekend.  Cool to be running with another elite athlete.

Spa--Awww, I bet that cat had a wonderful life with you.

I did 6 miles that kicked my butt again.  WTH?!  H&H, pollen, and now flies are just killing me worse than usual this year for some reason.

We have had three 90F+ days in April (April!!), including both days this weekend, which helped make it the warmest April on record.  It's gonna be a l-o-n-g summer.

Jay, I am glad that your family is recovering but am sad about the other driver.

Spacity, I am so sorry about your kitty.

Today I ran another one miler that served it's purposes even though it felt awful. It loosened my back up a bit (don't know what i did to it but have a massage scheduled tomorrow to try to remedy it) and it loosened some of the congestion a smidge. I am not going to lie. I am more than a little concerned because this week was supposed to be my last week of hard running and then taper. I am uncertain how the coach is going to adjust my week. Likely another cutback week and then hard week next week and shorter taper. Stupid germs.

I need to go back and ketch- up, but Congratulations!! to Paul for his BQ!  Woot woot!!

The legal professionals association I'm a member of had its first (maybe annual) rummage sale on Saturday to raise money for our general and scholarship funds.  We did better than anticipated $$-wise, but I am also very happy to report that my bursitis did better than I anticipated, as well.  There was a lot of lifting and walking involved, and things weren't feeling all that bad by the end of the day.  Then yesterday I spent the day on my hands and knees, getting up and down, cleaning our extra bedroom, and although I could tell the inflammation was rearing its head, again, it wasn't as bad as I anticipated.  This has me feeling cautiously optimistic about getting through this.  If things keep on this trend, I might try to go for an extended walk later this week.  Fingers crossed!!

Hope everyone else had a great weekend, and here's to a good week ~~

Afternoon all.

Total rest day today. So today, mainly catching up on things I've been letting go while training for OKC. 

What tetsujin209 said needs to be repeated:

Gotta love the goddesses who think they're not in distance running shape but, in spite of everything else going on in their lives that they're doing, nevertheless, somehow figure out how to squeeze in runs of 14, 14.1, 15.2, 18, etc. miles. as if nothing more than a Sunday afternoon walk in the park for the rest of us.

Thanks to everyone for all the congrats.

Paul

 

Evanflein, I hope you let the guy with the loader know about all the damage he did, and the town’s road crew too. They really need to be told when they screw up, otherwise they may never know, and may do it again. 

The guy with the loader won't be back. We've already talked to someone else about it, and will be using his services in the future. The really stupid part is, he was supposed to be there at 1:30, and DH took off time from work to be there when he showed up. DH got home at 1:15 to be sure to catch him, and the guy had already come and gone. That's almost as bad as the 5 hour availability window the cable guy gives you, only to show up half an hour before and claim you weren't available. And the "town road crew" is our contractor for our subdivision's road service area. That's how our rural subdivision roads are maintained. DH is one of the road service commissioners. And the stupid part here is, they're they same contractor who resurfaced the road last fall so it's not like they didn't know there was a lot of new material on the road. Anyway, it's must more dumb $hit we deal with here in the far north.

Tramps, I got my first mosquito bites on Saturday while doing the road material replacement. Seems too early for those buggars! Time to break out the window screens. And SRD is Scheduled Rest Day.

Lori, a short taper might be just fine. Hope you're feeling better.

Glad to hear Leslie's butt is better and Holly's back, too. Keep it up, girls!

Rest day for me, too. Not so much scheduled, but I go till I feel I just really need a break, and I'm there.