Morning Gang Nice run Jules, I have done the Kensington - Hyde Pk area a few times when at work, were I'm off to in a minute. Did you notice other runners don't seem to acknowledge each other there. This morning I did an 11 miler on the South Downs Way, seen some walkers, mountain bikers, horse riders and everyone chats. It was bliddy freezing though but nice sunshine warming it up a bit. Anyway: 11m 02:02:54 @ 11:11 pace AHR 157 75% Right off to Kensington to work Good Runs All Roy

Morning! Home projects sucked up my day yesterday, so today I got up at 6 a.m. and went out with my running partner (see avatar) for 8.5 mi. PERFECT! Caught the sunrise over the Atlantic, ran up the boardwalk, down the beach, up the sea wall...and got to do it all again coming back. It felt close to effortless. Dog did great. It was her first time over 7 mi, and I was a bit concerned. Shouldn't have been. She came home and has been hurdling the kids back and forth through the house for almost a 1/2 hour now! Wishing everyone as peaceful and joyous a run as I had this morning!

good morning everybody, jules, nice early run. I like getting home before others are up. morning Roy! I'm glad they were friendly, a nice run for you. congratulation, Tim! thanks for sharing that, nonoruns. what a happy start to the day. ok Bill. i'm not the appropriate place kicker, so I'll just zip my mouth shut. I tried to catch up a little on thread reading last night; I'll never catch up on posting. Hi Erika. thanks. on thing I remember from a week or so ago & still wonder about... BAP, what's going on wth your lungs? I'm doing a little better, was able to do 3 full pilates workouts last week. callanetics & , assorted exercises today. We're getting freezing rain this morning, the sidewalks are solid ice-- I thought I'd better put down some icemelter. DH brought some home last week from work. It looked a little funny but I assumed it was a different brand. smelled a little funny but I assumed the bucket had been used for something else. It was fertilizer! bleh. I've got to go out there & clean it up before it gets all over Sadie's paws.. or any other innocent travelers. Still raining, of course. At least the neighbors already think i'm nuts. off to fetch my broom. happy Sunday.

Bill you said NO sympathy so here goes -- get back on the wagon! I have not seen you complaining about Pfitz's weekly killer routines so that can only mean one thing . . . you are not doing them! More seriously, sometimes a race just goes bad. Of course, sometimes ribs for dinner the night before are not the best idea either. lol Today was an easy 7.05mi with DW. Holly, about the house. When my wife and I moved (wow nearly a decade ago) we rented out a storage locker and put furniture, records and all sorts of clutter in it. The condo looked great. Almost made me want to live there and I hated the place! It also made it easy to sell. There were several similar units on the market at (surprise) similar prices. Ours went first. Good luck with the sale this spring.

14.2 @ 8:38 on a mostly flat course. Amazing number of birds today down near the water, including four big eagles, a few Great Blue Herons, and literally thousands of other smaller birds. Spring can't be that far away.

Good morning! I sure am glad I did my long run yesterday instead of today - yesterday we had beautiful weather and today it is blowing and cold!! So, today it's my friend the garage treadmill - 4 miles. Bill - Interesting dinner choice the night before....just an observation. Consider yourself kicked. Holly - as a real estate agent I have to agree with Twocat...get rid of stuff. I professionally stage my listings so that they have an edge over the competition. If you are interested, you can send me pictures of your rooms and I will be happy to tell you what to get rid of and what to move around! I am sure your agent can do the same thing. C-mom

Nice to have the Brits kick us off today with a couple of crackin' runs! Hi Deb! I was getting worried about you... glad to hear things are moving along, even if not as fast as you'd like. Bill, I'll second what 2Kat said, to some extent... but I do think you had a more serious respiratory infection that took a lot out of you. Sometimes the head is eager to go before the body is able. Chalk it up to a crappy race you weren't prepared for (ribs, really?) and move on. Tim, good week, man! And you people with low HR just amaze me. I can get mine to 130 walking out to get the paper. Like Hopeful, I tend to run high. Nonoruns, nice run and I just love your running partner. What kind of dog do you have? Our old dog is barely able to go for walks of more than a couple miles. I'm trying to think of what kind of dog I want that could run with me. I don't think I've ever been up so far in the thread on a Sunday.... but I also don't have a run to report yet. Fueling up now for my long run... I have 12 on my schedule as a cutback week, but I've been working all week as a peak week (switching weeks) so this would be long (19-20), and next Sunday would be the 12 before the relay the following week. Sort of a mini-taper. Not sure if that's needed, but before I run three more or less 10k distance legs around the clock, I figured a mini-taper wouldn't be a bad thing...