Jay- if you are dealing with the red ribbon logo Overhead Doir Company of ______, I am disappointed in your experience.  I was a lawyer for the big company ( Overhead Door Corporation) for 10 years and that is NOT the service level the dealers should be providing!  I just got my first pension check, in fact.  It was a fun by stressful job.  Kids got crushed under garage doors.  Overhead owns Genie, too.

2.1 rushed treadmill miles before early flight to Dallas.  Back to my running roots/routes for a few days.

DD is tapering ahead of her 25K Trail Run tomorrow, so I ran solo this morning.  68F and 87% humidity felt reasonable so I decided on a Tempo run. First 5 miles were 9:20, 10, 26, 16 &13 which would fit well as MP for a goal marathon time of about 4:05. Miles 6&7 were both at 8:56 or HMP for a goal half time of 1:57. Last 1.4 miles at 8:35, which is about my 10K pace. Total of 8.4 miles at average of 9:05 pace. Felt wonderful.

Not quite sure what a coach would say about today's run or my goal paces, so perhaps a good job that I don't have a coach! I've very much adopted the 'experiment of one' training method since I started running two and a half years ago. Apart from setting myself a target mileage for the year, I have no training schedule and I mix in a few trail miles most weeks. I often run many of my miles with a group or with DD and let them set the pace. My prime concerns are to remain injury free and to enjoy my running. I've very much surprised myself with how competitive I have become in my AG.

TammyinGP, the Facebook pictures on the bus looked fun. Of course party lights on a bus will always enhance the x-country experience. Btw, did Coach Keven dye his hair, too? I saw he was rockin' the pink bandana. 

9.5 miles around town for me this morning.

Paul

Been a long week of work with a couple 12+ hour days, but yesterday it calmed down and I left early and stopped at the gym on the way home for a good workout.  Since my left calf has been bothering me again I spent the last few days on the ARC trainer at the gym.

I went to the gym again this morning but after I was done with the ARC workout I tried the treadmill out for a half mile and my calf felt fine. So I'll give it a go running tomorrow morning. I'll dig my compression socks out of the back of my sock drawer and see if they help.

Did anyone get to see Uranus with the naked eye last night? (I love saying that.)  Uranus was in opposition to the sun and at one of it's closest distances to Earth.  I tried to pick it out but I couldn't tell if I was looking at the blueish planet or just another star.  I thought I was seeing it, but when I used binoculars, it didn't look blue.  So who knows what I was looking at?

Meteor shower tonight but I don't want to stay up past midnight to watch.

I did mean TomW as opposed to TSelbs yesterday.  No sighting of TSelbs in awhile, it seems . . . 

A number of years ago, I accidentally backed into our garage door, putting a bit of a dent in it.  Not a big one, but also not unnoticeable.  The Hub was out of town at the time.  He asked how I could've backed into the door, what I was doing, etc.  To this day, I haven't told him how/why, just that I obviously backed into the garage door and that's really all he needed to know.  The subject came up the other day again.  I just gave him a matter-of-fact shrug and continued doing what I was doing.  The Story: We keep the door cracked enough for the cats to crawl under.  It was pouring down rain that day, and I was trying to get close enough to keep the rain from going under the door.  . . . I got a little too close. Someday I'll tell him the whole short story . . . maybe. 

Jay said he'd be nice if my chiropractic work helps.  Something to look forward to! 

I got home too late last night from Bonkos to even consider getting up at O-dark 30 this morning.  Will get in a workout after work.

OK - Back to work (unfortunately, my work space today is not a bowling alley . . . .)

Hey y'all, 5 miles pre-dawn with delightful temps in the upper 40s.  At lunch I joined a work colleague who I've been working with.  We did 6 x 400m and his times are coming down....both for the intervals and especially for the recoveries.  Total of 7.5 on that for a 12.5 mile day.

Which sounds like a bit much since I'm doing a half marathon tomorrow....but as the RW folks know, I don't have too much common sense!  We'll see how it goes.  No expectations or goals.  Just going to have fun and if the shirt matches the logo I'll be happy (ran this race, the Ironclad Half Marathon last year and suggested making the ironclad more prominent).

Evanflein, I bet you were there.  Going to try and post a couple of photos from the cookout/award ceremony.  My mom still doesn't believe me about the nipple chafing. Update--going to have to learn how to post pictures here.....

No running for me today, I was rudely awakened by sharp pain at 05:00. I unfortunately knew exactly what it was from a couple years ago: Kidney Stone.

Popped some ibuprofen and went about my business because there's really nothing you can do other than drinking a lot of fluids. So far so good, not debilitating like last time. I probably could have run this afternoon, but I'm still fuzzy from the pills, and I had to take the boy to buy a new computer after school.

Maybe tomorrow, but home in time to watch Oregon lose to whoever they play tomorrow.