4.2 miles at 7:20 am---7:41 pace---felt limber and fleet today. 28º and bright sunshine Enjoy the day all!

Bill, Nice run.....I was part of a contemporary praise band for several years. We called ourselves "Good for the Soul". And what good was a name like that if you didn't include a few "Soul" pieces. I played Rythm guitar and sang back-up. Sadly, since we moved I haven't picked it up in years. It's going to take days to get my GI system back on track. Oh the Sugar !!!!! I think everyone was in a competition to see who could come up with the richest dessert. Hit the pool this morning......I'll get an after work run in tonight. Then I'll be out of town for the ret of the week training in Chicago.

Spent the weekend dropping, cutting, and splitting a couple of trees for next year's firewood. Ow, ow , ow. Stiff and sore for this morning for a slow 5 miler sans Garmin. Byll--my sister works in a factory making these. Stumpy--great news

Good Morning! CNYrunner – thanks for starting us out. Stumpy/Kameele – good news! Breger – it doesn’t surprise me at all that you have another hidden talent – very kewl! Slo_Hand – sugar overload for me as well. I’m not hopping on the scale for a couple days, because I don’t really need to know the damage. Jlynne – I love hard-boiled egg and Miracle Whip sandwiches on ww. Lucky me, because I’ll be having that for lunch for the next 2 weeks. Mariposai - can you at least squeeze in a nap? Tramps - that's me next weekend, when I begin digging and planting. No run for me today, but I am returning to my regular x-training. Today was weighted squats, dead lifts, weighted duck squats, dumbbell curls, lateral raises, superman lifts, push-ups, and various stability ball crunches. Happy Monday!

Tramps.....You got to be kidding ! I have an Accustic Seagull right now and I had Godin LG.....

Sweet! No kidding.

Wow that's cool Tramps! I had a beautiful Guild D-35 in college that people wanted to trade for all the time (never would). I sort of have my heart set on a Martin Acoustic this time. But I'll definitely research those Grodin's! Peter I'll join! I'm sure Slo-Hand will. How about we name ourselves the "Running Over the Hill Gang"? That works on many levels. Bill

wildchild thanks for the weather update! For once I am not jealous that you are in Colorado and I am in Connecticut! biketm you are certainly my sole brother when it comes to the attitude you bring to your hobbies and I suspect work as well! I think it makes life a lot more fun. Too bad it is not free. Let me count my sports injuries . . . evanflein I have been running in Landreth's since I recovered from my AT injury a few years ago. I like them in many ways. But I am thinking of experimenting out since the toe box on them is a touch smaller than seems ideal for me. stumpy77 congratulations on being able to return to running! Your welcome back run of 1.7 miles seems fine to me. In fact, when I can resume that is about my first run goal! As Spareribs wrote, be patient and it will all come back. breger1 and Jlynne I am happy to report no spare eggs at my place! SLO_HAND alas while we are egg free I cannot say the same for the sweets. Like your dinner ours seemed to include an huge excess of desserts! Fortunately, we made most of our guests take them away when they left. Mariposai what the heck are you doing up at this hour on the west coast! Tell them you need to sleep and to tell the potential patients not to come down with anything or get hurt until a reasonable hour! Geez . . . no consideration! Holly S. sounds like my morning workout. Gym today. Later I am going to check out the stationary bicycles and see if I can tolerate it. The big news over here was last night's dinner! There were several incredibly picky eaters here and they all managed to find several things to eat. I simply do not understand how people live off of a really, and I mean really, limited repertoire of things they will eat. One eats basically nothing but beef and potatoes. Occasionally, fish. Plain. Just grilled. Another only chicken and lettuce based salads. A third, and this is sad, is anorexic and eats basically nothing but an occasional vegetable. In the end I managed to get them all to try something outside their typical diet which I consider a major accomplishment!

Darn - I totally forgot to put a hard boiled egg in my lunch today. Can the Running over the Hill Gang use a very bad banjo player? Hey, my DH actually has a degree in guitar from Berklee College of Music, and owns 6 or 8 guitars, so maybe he could join too. DD and I did a long core workout using Mark Verstegen's Core Performance book yesterday. It was my first, and I'm sore today. But in a good way. That's what I did yesterday in lieu of a long run, so I wouldn't feel like a total wuss. Twocat, I don't understand picky eaters, either. Variety is the spice of life! Well, as usual, I'm experiencing two different seasons at home and at work. This morning I had to scrape ice and snow off the windshield, but it's supposed to be 60° in town today, and the trees are getting green. So I get to do a lunchtime run in shorts to make up for yesterday's run in many layers and hat and gloves. It'll probably be like this for another 5 or 6 weeks, then springtime will arrive in the mountains.