[Hollywood southern drawl on] But Mainerunnah, you're a damn Yankee too. [/Hollywood southern drawl off] Rest day for me. Dad was sent by his new doc to emergency room yesterday afternoon. Yep, DAD. So, my sister, who's scheduled for her first two day vacation since Mom's stroke in mid-May has packed up Mom and taken her overnight to her house. Sis's vacation starts today, and luckily, it is the next island over from us here. Mom's arriving late morning. Dad's unfortunately on his own until early Monday. My Sis is about to go crackers, so she needs 2 days staring at the ocean. Mr. Nono heads out tomorrow to the West coast for a week of work. It'll be interesting to have Mom at the new house. She's never dealt well with change, but we'll do our best to keep her entertained and comfortable while she's here. I went out last night and bought her 8 new summer outfits so she'll have lots of new things to wear when she arrives. On the plus side, the doc said Dad's admitted to not sleeping much over the last two weeks, so they are going to try to keep him comfortable and encourage a lot of sleeping through the weekend. Hoping...

good morning, eight early sunny swedish miles followed by fjord dip and sun bake on the rocks. now that's summer... good runs, susan

Easy paced 6.2 miles w/ DW 10:10 average mile. Very nice summer morning 64F mostly sunny, humidity? not too bad, a little breeze would have been helpful. Started a half marathon training plan today, 16 weeks to get ready. Actually I could do a half at anytime but it would be ugly. My goal of course is to look marvelous. I've never been too good at following plans, but at least it will give me some structure. Somewhat sad to read about everyone's family health issues, but nice that we read & offer our thoughts & prayers. maine them are some awesome workouts you're putting in Susan 8 sunny miles followed by a dip & bake sounds GREAT! nono best wishes with Mom & Dad Roy nice of you to get the Mrs. out there running Peter I think life is much easier if you're the "crazy" of the neighborhood, I hope your neighbors are more normal

mainerunnah enjoy your 16 miler today. nonoruns what can I say other than this must be very tough on you and your family. Best wishes as work your way through everything. The Jogger not starting the thread? Slacker! fjordrunner all you Europeans have this huge time advantage for getting here first! Nice 8. Peter NCwho knows maybe you can talk them into be crazy? Sarge nice run with DW. Good luck with the HM! Holly S. sigh, I too find nothing produces quite the workout running does. But, hopefully you will be back to running soon. Enjoy the ball game with DS. Some of my fondest early memories are from going to Mets games with my dad. Yesterday perchcreek what a training run! Those intervals are very impressive. biketm if you are mailing out checks can I get one? Tramps nice temps for your run and good 6 miler. hopeful4ever hill running = great training. Nice run. wildchild good run and enjoy your backpacking trip. What do you mean you are not doing the monthly miles? Just get a satellite hookup and bring your PC! dtoce nice speed work run! SueT48 good hill workout. Low humidity sure does help! Nice day again today in CT! evanflein 4 lbs since June! Wahoo! Yep, keep them off! BCMorant seems like the weather is breaking for the better all over for our runners! Good pace on your 8 miles. Easy is easy if it feels easy. The actual pace is, I think, secondary. In my view you can go "slow" and if it feels hard it is. Aamos sounds like you had a great day yesterday. 8.5 mile run while at work. Does it count as "at work" if you are off running? stumpy77 when I get out for morning runs I find the hats hotter than they are worth. Have you tried a headband? Not that I wear those either. Just wondering. charleygross hope the knee keeps healing up. tselbs nice that you can help your DD study for a stat test. Even cooler that she would ask her dad! My guess it was worth being tired for the run. CNYrunner I would have run on a rest day if I was off traveling (new route, yea!) and the weather was that nice. mirko do you do tri's? Just wondering since you did a run and swim in the same day. munchkn883 in my quest to figure out some of the handles, what does the 883 stand for? SteveP hope you burned up the course in your race today! Me I ran the 5th race in the local Saturday series. This one was at the ever popular distance of 4.83 miles and I managed to finish the course in 30:56 which was 2 seconds faster than last year. (SueT48 thanks for the speedy wishes yesterday. Guess they worked!) I am really happy about the new course PR and I hope it augurs well for the longer races this fall. I lost by 2 seconds to one of my "rivals" and 4 to my occasional TP who has been clobbering me all year. Both good signs as the races increase in distance where I hope to gain some time on them both! Last year I was ahead of my TP, but she is 22 and thus getting faster. Me . . . sigh. To be in a 22 year old body again. Not to be 22 though! Life is much better now. Bill I was not sure what to say about your post yesterday. Having somebody you know go like that cannot be easy. evanflein I am not sure if this will help, but sometimes despair and suicidal thoughts are something you grow out of. As a child I was very depressed and close to suicidal. It was bad enough that my parents sent me off for professional counseling (which did nothing to help). People who know me now cannot believe it as I am nearly always upbeat. I hope your DS1 comes to the same revelation I did that being happy or not is something you are because you decide to be and learns to love his life. The old joke he who dies with the most toys wins is flat out wrong. The winner is whoever spent as much time as they had available being happy. (End personal philosophical musings.) Ribs as does everybody else I am hoping for all the best for you. Be well.

Maine.. nice 10 miler and now 16 on schedule.. wow! Fjord dips are back! ahhh Buyer Beware I keep getting "free" mention (glorification) of my runs through SR's "special free trail offer". I see WRFB and PDR opted out quickly. I didn't read the "fine print". I am getting LESS comments on my runs and some major eye rolling. So I tried to get out and drop the service. This is where I encountered the "fine print". There is a substantial ongoing "discontinuation fee" imposed to stop mentioning the client's runs. This is highway robbery. I refuse to pay this. So when ever you see Ribs mention my runs, it's because I'm NOT paying him. I wonder if some Beer money is going his way?? 4 Magical Healing Miles with Tory in 37:51, AHR 144

Tough dualthon this morning. Started out with a random 11.3 mile run around the neighborhood. That's long for me. Then, with little time to recover, I ended up with baby duty. "A couple hours" ended up being 4 and now I am finally free, but hungry enough to eat a horse. So I am now on my way out to see if I can find a horse! (Actual run went well. Slow, but I wasn't dead at the end.)

Good runs today! Perch-- Schedule called for sleeping late and a rest day. Mission accomplished. Humidity's back; wish I had a fjord!