Good morning everyone I will try to start us off for the day and week. Tramps....Great picture yesterday. You mentioning TV 38 out of Boston reminds me of watching Esposito/Orr/Bucyk/Cheevers/Cherry in the great run they had in the NHL. Tall.....Great picture there too. Your lady and her daughter are certainly lovely looking. Your temperatures this winter should be feeling about 10 Celsius degrees warmer with her around Runningindc.......Great start to your blog. You will enjoy it and I will keep track of it as the year goes on. It is fun to record your running this way. My chest is STILL sore and certainly a rainbow of colors from my fall last week. Hopefully I can get back to running today. Have a great day

Good Monday Boomers. That weather headed to the East Coast just dumped almost a foot here. It was messy running in it yesterday. Cars see you on the side of the road and try to see how much slosh they can throw in your direction. Opted for the treadmill this morning - 5 miles in 45:10. Legs felt carpy after doing 7 with the YaxTrax yesterday. Weekend company for the football game left this morning so life is back to normal . Everyone will be back again next weekend, though, as the Packers got another home game with the Dallas loss. A Sunday night game (5:30) in Green Bay on January 20th? It WILL be cold! Have a great day, everyone.

Congratulations to the weekend runners, especially MC's fine performance regardless of how he feels about it. But I do have to say, MC, that I have never in my life pinched another guy's butt (NTTAWWT). Sally also had a good run and result at an unusual distance of 17K, and of course there was Econo's greta HM PR. An easy 3.2-mile run today with an old friend. The snow was starting to fall, but we got our run in before anything got too slippery. Have a great running day, everyone.

During yesterday's 9 miler I was running with a friend. Average pace was around 11 m/m and I was chatting it up the whole time - yet my heart rate was averaging 171/172. Doesn't that seem high when I didn't feel like I was excerting myself?

Sorry to hear about your SIL, Mary. Having gone through the consequences of a serious car accident last year, I know how this can be an ordeal for an entire family. I sure hope things work out for you all. That HR reading does seem more than a bit high. At an easy "conversational pace", my HR is in the mid-130s, and at a faster pace in the 140s. Of course my max HR should be lower than yours. My DW is closer to your age, and when she runs a good pace on the TM, she's just into the 150s I think. For what it's worth, I've never been very happy with the HRM performance of my 305, and rarely use it since it tends to be inconsistent and I often lose the signal completely during a run. I tried running with it at the Grand Rapids HM, and according to the readings my HR dropped down to about 80 for the 2nd half of the race.

Rest day, but first one in a while I don't feel I need. Resting anyway, jjj

Mary - 170's seem so high then for a conversational-pace. Do you have someone else's HR monitor you could borrow for a run? Mustang Sally - just caught your race on yesterday's thread - congratulations on your PR - excellent racing!

Jlynne you need to move east where the snow forecasts are typically way overblown! Our "big" snowstorm that was going to drop potentially 10" here in CT left us with maybe a quarter inch of slush in places. The roads, except for a few small stretches, were fine. I just got a pair of YakTraxs from my DW and thought I was going to get to try them out today. Fortunately that day will have to wait. Congratulations to all our weekend racers. I will try to catch up with the RR through the day. I have only read MC's so far. He did run a great race, if you have not read his report you should just so you have something to envy shoot for. Nice MLR today: 14.42mi@8:39. Good day all.

Thanks for getting the show on the road Vista. We'll try not to make you laugh cause I'm sure it hurts. Get well fast. Sweet pictures TallRunner and Tramps. Sorry to hear about your SIL Mary. . We'll pray for all involved. I may move furniture around today cause Holly has all the best work outs. It's a little brisk and windy here with the snow that stings when it hits your face. This time the dog hid when I asked if she wanted to go. I was planning a 6 mile out and back. After going a mile into the wind and pelting snow I asked my self, "WWED?'. (What would evanflein do). Then I thought..."I ain't doing that"...Or "That's nuts"....Or something along that line. At the next intersection I made the route a loop instead. The last 1.5 miles was back into the wind, but I could stagger it and the trees blocked a good part of it. 6.5 miles Since Valentine's Day is only a month out, I need to work on a poem for Mrs. P. SO far all I have is: Fee Fie Foe *art. You're the one who has my heart. If any Master runners can help finish it, that would be kewl. Thanks.