Aamos great news about your DH. I hope the rest of his recovery goes as well and as fast. A lot of good runs today even with the subliminal complaining about the heat! Actually Spareribs this is just the way I like it when I run. I am so happy to be able to go out in shorts and feel warm from the start. Today's run was just a bit over 10 miles. Happy warm weather running all.

Aamos! Thanks for the update. I believe D. is an interesting case, I think most docs only say that when it is so. Lou, Darn. We are taking lilmissrosie to Dulles (en route to London and then Madrid and then to Salamanca where she will study for 6 weeks) I thought we'd just stay up there for the night and see if y'all wanted to meet for dinner, ah well, maybe another time. KARIN! "Wait, wait..." was taped here in Virginia, in Va. Beach this week! My boss was at the show! She and her husband went down to VB for the taping on Thursday night, stayed the night, took Friday off and whathaveyou. I love that show. I listen to it on PodCast. I'll be at the rec. center laughing outloud and the guy on the machine next to me thinks I'm a loon. And that's just the way I like it! (Are we allowed to complain about the deer flies?)

Just a real quick "fly by" post from my SIL's computer... Have to head out for the last regular game of the tournament... both boys play at 2 pm on fields several miles apart! Argh! Not sure how we're going to pull this off. DS1 played a good game the first time out, but against a team 2 years older (he plays on a '92 team, the opponents were a '90 team). They lost 3-0 so that was a rough start. Then his second game they played a team that just trounced his (different) team 2 years ago. They played really well, especially the last 20 minutes, and tied 1-1. If they'd played the way they played those last 20 minutes for the whole game, they'd have won handily!! DS2's team is just unstoppable. The two-years-in-a-row state champs played their arch rivals first game and won 1-0. Got some great photos of DS2 I'll post after I get home. They really like the kids on this team, and scrimmage with them during the winter, but had to put on their opponents hats for this game. Something that is hard for 14 year olds to do, sometimes. Second game this morning was cold and windy, but they won 3-0. So... I'm pretty sure DS2 will get to semi finals and hopefully the finals tomorrow. DS1 could be done today... Got in a nice run on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail yesterday. 10 miles in about 1 hr 25 minutes. Timing using my dress analog watch... yep, I left my Garmin at home. Egads, talk about withdrawal symptoms. Today I ran 5.2 miles (measured later with the car!) in about 45 minutes, lots and lots of hills. My BIL lives in the "hillside" district of Anchorage, and it comes by that name honestly. I got sunburned yesterday, windburn today. Never happy! Glad to hear Aamos' DH came through well. That's a relief. Twocat is wishing winter was back (smack those fingers with a ruler! how could you...!). Evryday is taking a break... hope it wasn't something we said! Holly is painting nooks and crannies (what color did you pick again, caramel?? hope we get pics!). Enke is racing speed traps, Spareribs is tuckered out and Ilene has a pain in her butt. There, I think that's the most I remember... Good running everyone. I prolly won't post again till after we get home.... Long late drive in store for Sunday night!

Enke-- I've tried to get the radars to record my blazing speed a couple of times, but nothing ever showed someone told me they need something metallic to respond to. don't have a plate in your head, do you?

No apparently I only have holes in my head I just figure the radar was politely trying to tell me I'm the size of a Mac truck. Franc, thanks for the info. I think you are forgetting I run about 10:45 pace or slower on long runs. AND, unfortunately, 7am is just too early for me, although I was tempted!

Week long rain stopped long enough for sunshine in last evening's Fremont 5K Fun but I guess I know what franc113 and enkephalin are talking about cold today as more than half the runners at the start of this morning's freebie Green River Marathon from Kent, Washington to Alki Beach in West Seattle were wearing gloves and lots of runners <>me/me)>>> were shaking and chattering with cold at the finish. Off to the ice bath (feet and ankles only) then hot tub. got to run first mile with dove but she was already on the way to tomorrow's North Olympic Discovery Marathon when I finished. No wonder it took me so long, . . . I tried to keep up to Huskydon up Henderson Hill as his relay team brothers decided he was so much faster than them that they added a couple of miles to his leg this year. - HUSKY - you might as well run the marathon next year! ============================= ps - i think ilene has sr's butt. [[[[[censored]]]] - i get dibs on hers.

Your first half marathon and you got 1st place in your division? Sa-weet!! Congratulations, Wildchild!

Carolyn, congratulations! That's amazing! I'm so happy for you. You even WON something!! Amy, thanks for sharing the great news! Erika, your sons are doing great! I hope that both teams get to continue. Is it hard on DS1 when DS2's team does better? So far, my younger son doesn't seem jealous at all of his big brother's success - he enjoys telling other people about it. He's trying shot put, but doesn't seem that excited about it. Well, I'm on Day 2 of my forced rest week, so I will give a quick summary of DS15's state track meet this afternoon. Beautiful weather - low 70s, better than the 80s they were forecasting. His team's 4x800 relay team won the championship in 8:15, so they'll advance to the New England regional next weekend (just before final exams start, ychh). In the 1600 (mile), he came in 6th, but was still happy because he PR'd in 4:32. DD10 and I got there in time to see his 3200 (2-mile) race. How exciting! The boys really bunched together for more than a lap. It turns out that the senior who always wins told my son that he purposely started out slowly, hoping that DS would pass him and burn out quickly. DS fell for that trick last week, though, and resisted this time. So DS's 1600 split was 5:12 ("slow," lol), but then he poured on the juice and kept up with the senior the rest of the way. His second split was 4:49, for a second place finish time of 10:01. Not a PR, but just 3 seconds behind the senior. Last week the senior won by 15 seconds or so. On the high school track forum, one of the coaches wrote, "Great finish for the youngster!" I always enjoy hearing the comments of strangers watching DS run - "He's so small!" I'm so glad I went, and that I drove DS home. He was giddy and bubbly the entire way! Jabbered non-stop about how he's aiming for 4:15 next year and 4:00 as a senior. The kid doesn't lack in self-confidence or a competitive spirit - hmm, who does he get that from??