Morning, Folks - Tim - I gave up on lunges awhile back. I have never been able to do them without my right knee bothering (which is a problem knee anyway). When I did one that made me almost wet my pants it hurts to $%^* bad, I said no more. I do squats with weights and lots of hill work. dg - Yea! You get to start running again! Ev - Keep posting those lyrics. I look forward to reading them. Stumpy - Good luck, and keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. Some really great runs posted yesterday and today. All you Boston peeps are gonna kick some BM butt! A peek at the thermo this a.m. said 27 when I left at 6:30 and read the same thing when I got back about an hour later. I keep looking at my poor yard and it is so tempting to buy some new plants, but alas, I know we'll have more frosts and it'd just be throwing money into the mulch pile. I'm suppose to run what feels good for the next weeks or so and keep the HR at 160 or below. So even though I was told to do 3 miles this a.m., I did 5 and threw in my version of some sprint work: run semi-hard for 2 blocks, recover 1 block. Did for sets before I started feeling it a bit in the tum so just took it easy going back home. 1. 10:08/8:46/147 2. 10:13/9:15/160 3. 10:07/7:10/157 4. 9:50/8:23/158 5. 10:16/8:13/159 For about the last .5, I could really tell I didn't eat a whole lot yesterday. Have to get back into eating right for running. That Nancy Clark book sounds like just what I need. Have a great day!

dg, your emoticons yesterday said it all. Lunges hurt my knees too, so I just don't do them. I like running up hills better. 32F, sunny, a touch of wind, 11.13 miles total. So after three days off, although I've been feeling a bit fluish the past week, I tried a HMP tempo run. 2 mile w/u @ 11:14 7 miles of hills @ 9:45 2.13 mile c/d @ 11:42 A litte bit faster than the one I did two weeks ago (9 miles), and with feeling a bit "off" the past week, I'm happy enough. Just don't know if I want to race a HM in a week and a half if I've been slightly under the weather. Could turn out pukey. Ok, this ticks me off.....running along a nice trail, covered in tree canopy, then I pass the SMOKERS from Boeing that are out on a smoke break....got a nice lungfull of cigarette smoke, like 3 times today, puke! Can't they just stand in the parking lot instead?? Why do they have to pollute the green space?

Hey hey hey -- I got out there this morning for 2 mi -- planning on another 2 when we get ready to barbeque tonight! Better to be sick at Disney with my husband here and staff it I need it! Seriously, I walked to Downtown Disney last night and bought 3 soft pretzels -- huge ones. Had 2 for dinner and 1 for breakfast. I'm just going to eat them until the cold has run its course. They seem to do the trick to keep my stomach OK from the drainage. I'm 2 1/2 weeks from my favorite race of the year -- so I need to build back some miles quickly! We take the AutoTrain home tomorrow, and if it is on time, can pick up Renee on Sat. She'll need a run after all that boarding, so perhaps Sat. night will be a long run? Time will tell! Stumpy -- good luck and let us all know how things go!

thanks enke, Twocat! Twocat, I hope you get similar news soon. Where are now on that 4 week trial? How's Vegas? enke, nice running. all is well? That stinks about the .... stink. I changed my Sunday neighborhood route once because of bacon. Nono, good news.

dg - The tum's a bit sore 'cause it's aggravated again, but it's definitely getting better. Finally got a return call from my doc's PA re getting a new prescrip for phenergan (to help my nauseau) and she says, "And you had a question regarding your physical activities?" Well, yeah, like about two weeks ago! "He says you can resume whatever activities you want to." Uh, thanks? Since I already have? Got back to the office in time to watch the last 35 minutes of this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/marathon/. It's about a NOVA team of running novices and their preparations to run the 111th Boston Marathon. I was practically crying like a baby by the end.

4 easy tonight and then back to work. It is our Open house night so another late night and then maybe next week I can get back to normal. Its been a long week with long hours. Mary, Get feeling better next week the weather is getting warmer. Tim, Women are either the cure or the death of you. Be careful with those knees remember thats the first thing to go in a stud. I have trouble remembering that I am 49 not 29 sometimes and do things that I really shouldn't also and then my body lets me know pretty quickly. Ok Back to work Larry

Tim, Women are either the cure or the death of you.

Surely hope the "cure' comes first TimBo