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Dave, feeling better today?

Holly, we'll take "some" improvement!

Greata run Carolyn, 20 on a workday, whoa.

Congrats Jlynne.  Please report in detail about cake reward.

Kevin, we will be looking for a run report, no more 'scuses.

I was up early so I went out on a beautiful morning, moon is a cresent, looking just like a bowl--never saw moons like that up north--and got inspired to run about ten and a half miles in an ambling pace sorta around 9 minute miles (so long as you don't count the first two when I was gaping at the sky and just being goofy.)

grins,

A

Good morning Amy, burger and all that follow.

Good foot work Amy, being able to look up and gawk at the moon and run at the same time.  I would have tripped over my own shoes.

I am glad someone like Jay is able to recap everyone's accomplishments.  I'm not very good at putting thoughts into words, though I do read everything.  Everyone here motivates me to keep on trucking or running (which ever).

11.0 miles in the predawn with 8 x 1/2 mile (3:51 average) with 1/2 mile interval (4:10 average).  Heart rate topped out at 150 then slowed to low 140's each repeat.  Then 5.0 miles this afternoon, just slightly easier though the legs just kept turning over quickly (8:25 pace).  It's off to dinner.  Wishing everyone a has a delightful day anyway they can legally.

~~aak!

Way to start the daily!  That's how I feel when I try it.

I don't know how much how I feel is connected to the weather/winter.  I just have these days where I feel down and I can't think.  It's like a mental head cold.  I have to read something 6 times to understand it.  For example, I read something on-line about a study on high intensity intervals, and I swear it took 8 reads to understand what the study results were.  I would normally give up after 3 reads but it was making mad.

I must be doing better because I finally fixed a complicated programming issue at work that I have spent the last week on.

I got dressed to run my usual slog around the neighborhood, but I am going to ditch that idea, quit work at noon and go up north for a couple hours of xc-skiing.  I haven't gone at all this season and conditions are supposed to be perfect today with 4 inches of freshly groomed snow on top of a huge base.  I imagine I'll be an uncoordinated mess out there on the trails but there shouldn't be too many witnesses around on a Wednesday afternoon.

Today was my first 5 mile run since the ultra. Man, I take a long time to recover.  The massage yesterday helped.

If someone had told me the stir I would have created for that Dallas Morning News post, i never would have believed it. The post went almost viral, with almost 1,000 viewers on FB alone. On Monday the News will give me a report on total readership but I know it got reposted and commented on a lot. I got personal email, people calling me anti-gay, demanding I should be fired, all kinds of things.

Of course these are the people who thought it was serious, not the ones who knew it was a satire. I once wrote a post advocating that the Dallas Arboretum should be paved over. I wrote another one describing a new race coming to Dallas in which spectators are given buckets of stones to throw at the passing runners.  I've written all kinds of stuff but never got feedback like this. I've had to write back to people to explain it was a joke and say I'm sorry that I didn't make it more obvious.  What a riot.

Some running group up in Oklahoma got hold of it and starting dumping on Dallas.  Opie saw it and posted that he knows the writer and that it was a gag.  If not, the thread would have gone on and on.   Spareribs

spectators are given buckets of stones to throw at the passing runners.

reminds me of the cartoon of duck hunters shooting at ski jumpers in mid-air:

"and the beauty of it is, you don't even need a license."

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However, for triathlon training, I used to have my kids and their friends form a gauntlet in the pool I'd try to swim through with them spashing water in my face, pushing and punching me under, grabbking my ankles, etc.

(dashing in)  Hi Aamos!  2 miles for me, in gentle rain.  No stones thrown at me during the run, either.  phew!

Re: time change...I was just thinking I was hoping Daylight Savings Time would kick in, because I'd be able to run in the morning darkness again.  I like it.

tw -- Pickles is boss -- do what she says.

Tetsujin, that's priceless! Ribs, I agree with Holly. Some people just take life too seriously and they're always looking for an offense.

Hi Aamos! Nice amble for you this morning. Good for you on starting the daily. I do it every now and then, but I cheat by staying up too late...

Glad you're feeling better, Dave. No fun being in a funk.

We got snow! It's been so nice and sunny (and no precip) for the last two+ weeks. Well, it clouded over this week and now it's snowing. Just when the bikepaths were plowed down to the ice layer from last November (yeah, that made yesterday's run interesting...).

So, today, I'll head home after work and hop on the treadmill while dinner is in the oven. Get to try my new shoes! I got the Brooks Pureconnect2 and New Balance 1400's on sale at RRS. Didn't expect much since most of my shoe orders go back pretty quickly, but so far these are both nice! Different, and that Brooks design is sure interesting (sort of a wrap-around deal) and they're both so light! And they don't hurt my toes!! Wow, I can hardly wait now that I've decided to not run outside. Yay! New shooz!