Good morning all! I realized over the weekend that the Hartford Marathon is just 12 weeks away and I hadn't started planning. (How often does a marathon sneak up on runners?) So I put a quick outline together and ramped up the miles as much as I can expect. I also flipped to running mornings during the week, tough to switch... That all said I had a great 9-10 miles of hills this morning! Everything was clean from last night's rain and the temp was perfect. Enjoy your day, Craig

So I gets up early this morning unsure whether to run Tempos or Repeats. After thinking about it for awhile... Ummm, what's that ya say? Spareribs already posted my run? Oh. Never mind. Roger and out. Bill

Well, 'ribs's surrogate postings have surely improved since yesterday. Maybe he just doesn't like beer.

4@8:15

4 easy

Hmm, these guys need help.

Holly - did you try the arc trainer yet? My friend who runs a lot but has been injured says that's what works best for her when she can't run. I tried it yesterday - it's cool. If you set it on hill intervals, it periodically even changes how high you "step" - works lots of different muscles. I did it for 35 minutes yesterday (level 5 out of 10) and was really happy with the workout I got. The only problem is there is technically a 30-minute limit on it, and there's only ONE machine. I have discovered that a woman uses it the same time every day - she's been beating me to it by 5 minutes, so I have to get to the Y 10 minutes sooner, I guess!

Wow a lot of posts already. I am sitting here with no lights. We have power but we have a digital light system. The advantage is I can hit one button at night and turn off all the lights at once. The apparent disadvantage is that when the computer that seems to run the thing goes out I cannot turn any of my lights on. This is the second time this month the system has gone down Hopefully, the repair guy will be here "any minute now." predawnrunner glad your legs are feeling happy again post trip. WillRunForBeer when the DW pulls out a longer run no amount of embellishment will help! hopeful4ever do you find the HRM helps with daily training runs? What do you do with the data? biketm ah, yea, good luck with those repeats tonight. CNYrunner I can see you are not buying the lie on the couch, watch TV and eat Twinkies for five weeks training advice. How about hang out in the back yard, drink margaritas and sleep training schedule? Bad, bad 15 miler. Spareribs I am like totally confused. SueT48 nice speed work. See Tramps there are such things as mile repeats! DickyG nice hill run. Craneium between you and Ribs what is or is not actual running reporting seems to be getting harder and harder to figure out. rochrunner as long as things keep moving in the right direction. And the brevity award goes to: lyndenrunner with first runner up dtoce. Holly S. looks like you are getting good use out of your free trial! Best of luck getting the cat out of the closet to which it no doubt immediately ran into to hide out! busiman good luck training up for the Hartford Marathon! tomwhite see training advice to CNYrunner above. breger1 and my confusion continues. mainerunnah I saw your post at the Reach the Beach Relay forum about vests and lights. I would have replied there but did not want to bother registering last night when I saw your note. My advice is that unless your team is really looking to keep costs down that you have everybody get their own vest and lights. These things get really, and I do mean really, gross after just one person wears them. Think having somebody handing you a race shirt after a 10K in hot humid weather which you then put on to run 10K in and you will have a pretty good idea of what it is like, except you have to wear their headband too. Yech! This year the team I am on has an bring your own policy. Teresadfp the 30 minute limit at the gym seems pretty standard. For me that means there is no point joining one unless they have sufficient machines that the limit never kicks in. I take it there is no other gym you can use in your area. I ran 8.64 miles today. My longest run post marathon. It took a bit of doing though. When I woke up a thunder storm was pulling through. So I started working with an eye on the local radar screen. When a break appeared off I went! This is one huge advantage of being able to work from home. I also want to thank everybody that replied to my Missoula RR. Rather than clutter up the daily with replies I am going to break protocol somewhat and reply over there to the various questions people asked. Good running and good day all.

Of course he runs well, he's electrically powered. Must be tough finding extension cords for anything more than a 5K. Has he ever thought of batteries?

Hmmm, I never even noticed that before...I'm going to have to launch an investigation asap! Thanks for the info ... you made me chuckle.

Side note: This weekend I found a large wicker trunk at a flea market. Just the thing I needed for tucking at the end of the sofa and putting blankets and throws in. When I came in from the gym today, I found DD crouched beside it with a strange look on her face. Turns out she had put the dog AND cat in the basket and shut the lid “to help them learn to get along.” Happy Wednesday!

That was laugh out loud funny! Rest day for me. Maybe some weeding. Other than that, I'll be doing an impression of lox.