Mornin' everyone.

Yesterday’s excellent workouts:

Rochrunner (4 miles, relaxed pace on the Clinton River Trail)

Steve (9.7 miles along the Gulf of Mexico with no snow shovel sightings)

BerthaSlayer (5 miles, post-Cuba trip, streak still intact)

Leslie (5 miles with 6 X 1-min. hill repeats, finishing in the rain, no thanks to the cats)

C-R (3.1 lunchtime miles on the TM)

Dave (ARC & weights at the gym)

Lamerunner (snowy run on groomed rail trail in 2F temps with howling winds sounding like snowmobiles)

Marj & Henrun (running along Biscayne Bay and Henry did some biking)

Holly (6 morning TM miles)

Twocat (1 hr. on the elliptical in anticipation of the 20K being canceled, which it was)

Rochrunner, remodels are a short-term inconvenience for a much longer term benefit.

Some traveling helps keep things in perspective, doesn’t it, Lori?

Marj, I also don’t understand why anyone would jump on a treadmill when there is glorious weather right outside their door.

Leslie, that photo of the river rushing and foaming under that bridge is downright frightening!

Jlynn, I keep telling people that we’ve been getting older since the day we were born, and we’ve had to adjust to changes all along the way. Some changes have been easier to adjust to than others, but still, we adjust and move on. Don’t dwell on the 'old days' (you can’t go back to change anything, so what’s the point?), but rather make the best of the days in front of you.

Good luck with the other job, Mike!

I’m glad you got some dry stuff, Tet. And good luck with pretending to be fending off mental old age, as best you can tell...

5.6 Yaked miles in another 2-3" of freshly-fallen and still falling snow in 12F temps. This was a light powder, which was slicker (not the city type) than yesterday's packed snow. So, on some side roads that weren't adequately cleared yesterday, I was still doing some slippin' and sliddin', even with the Yaks. I chatted with the newspaper delivery guy who realized he forgot to give us our paper yesterday, so he gave us a freebie today - nice. I also saw footprints in the snow of another crazy person dedicated athlete who was out early this morning. Now DW and I are going to our fave dive for breakfast because I worked hard out there this morning and, darn it, I've earned it!

Have a greta Saturday!

Jay

Hey Jay and marj and all to come.

Nice recap and trax run Jay.

That is a good perspective marj and I'm starting to understand that better myself.

That bridge pic was both awesome and frightening.

Ran 8 with the club this morning and it was 49 degrees and sunny. Wonderful time. Hung out with the 10mpm crew and had a great conversation. Made the miles slip past like a gentle breeze. Now to paint a closet and pull up some carpet. Yay me.

Cheers.

Dave, were you still in Michigan for that 18F day?

EZ 6 miles around the lake with a buddy, mostly jawing all the way. I didn't really have it this morning, so welcomed the chance to go slow with some walking.

Hello again. I came home to NH after DS's eye follow up appt. Eye still looks good and vision is better than before the infection, so now he just needs to keep healing and make sure the new cornea does not get infected. Probably he can ski recreationally pretty soon, which is good since Spring break is coming right up. He may dabble in a bit of nordic too.

I ran on the local rail trail this morning, quite a slog. It had been somewhat groomed, but there was a bunch of soft snow on top, plus a lot of snowmobile traffic. At only 12 degrees, I thought the surface would be firmer.About 7 miles, much harder than necessary.  I may go swim to redeem the day.

And I hear you on the age thing. My body cannot tolerate anywhere near what it used to, plus of course my stoopid knee is always an issue. I think mrun has the right idea; just get out there and enjoy what you can.

Happy weekend!

good afternoon all!

nice workouts that Jay recapped so succinctly.

What was your breakfast at the local dive? 

went out this morning for a 9 mile run with a friend. It was still quite cold and foggy at about 33 degrees and about 10 minutes after our run, the fog finally burned off and it's now nice and sunny. good run though. i haven't done that kind of distance in a year or more I bet. not super fast, averaged out about 10:30's I think, but it was a comfortable pace. ended up with 9.3 miles in total.

Tramps  I wanted to put on the invitation to my birthday party, "Celebrating one year closer to death!" For some reason my DW nixed it.  Women! I will never understand them.

Holly S. for the peppers it helps to have a hispanic neighborhood nearby. If you do grocery stores in the area will likely have the peppers. If not, you can get the dried peppers from Amazon. The fresh peppers will require a bit more ingenuity. You can replace the Fresno chilies with jalapenos. They are pretty similar in taste. The Fresno chilies are sort of red colored jalapenos. The Anaheim peppers can be replaced with whatever frying peppers you store carries. You are looking for one of the larger milder peppers. But not a poblano. You want one with a soft skin. Good luck with your pepper hunt!

I got up late and after procrastinating got my body out for a 16 mile run. The temperatures were not bad, low to mid thirties. The roads were okay. The sidewalks are covered in snow. But the road shoulders are mostly clear. Other than one van that nearly hit me (I guess turning the steering wheel a little bit was too much work for the guy driving it) I managed to get through the run without incident.

After spending the day working. I put together dinner. I made this cauliflower with quinoa recipe as a side. It is one of my favorite cauliflower recipes mostly because the quinoa with prunes and peanuts that goes with it is so delicious! Make just that if you want, it is good all by itself.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cauliflower-with-quinoa-prunes-and-peanuts

The Hub changed medical providers to my NP and saw her Thursday for the first time.  They hit it off, which I knew they would, but his blood pressure is high.  He doesn't want to take meds, so she told him needs to lose 10-15 lbs and that will probably work.  Why am I telling you this?  Because I'll have to forego looking at 2Kitty's delicious recipes until he get his weight off.  I guess we're both sorta dieting since I'm providing mental support. 

10 chilly, sunny miles today at Headwaters.  Lots of people and their dogs out enjoying the sunshine and no rain!

Things were a bit frosty this morning.  I stepped out onto the deck to uncover my plants, I had on slip-on shoes that don't have a whole lot of traction, and DOWN GOES LESLIE!  Landed on the right side of my butt/back.  Scared the crap out of me!  I crawled the 2 or 3 feet back to the door and into the house.  It wouldn't have been too bad, except I landed on the part of my butt that I'm having a lot of trouble with. I just sort of laid on the floor for a couple of minutes assessing the potential damage. 

After talking with my PT last week and doing the hamstring exercises he gave me - which are helping the hamstring, but not the butt issue - I think I may have Ischial Bursitis Syndrome, or Weaver's Bottom, as Dave (my PT) said it's also called.  The exercises are definitely helping the hamstring issue - and would help a lot faster if I stopped running - but the pain in my butt (no pun intended . . . okay, maybe a little . . . ) is not getting better, and by the end of the day yesterday at work, I could hardly sit.

I'm icing and taking ibu, but at this point I'm ready to see if someone will give me a cortisone injection to help relieve some of the inflammation.  I left a message for Dave yesterday and will be waiting anxiously to hear from him Monday.  I swear, yesterday I was ready to to go urgent care and see if they'd give me a shot.  I can take a lot of pain, but this is getting beyond what even I can take.

Yes, running makes things worse, so I will be limiting my running this next week in the hopes things calm down and don't destroy me at my races next weekend.  Then when I come back, I'm willing to stop running for however long it takes to get things happy . . . .keeping in mind I have a 50 miler in July.

I swear, I'd like to get through one year - just ONE YEAR - without having something happen.  Waaaaa!

Speaking of water, bridges, etc., the spillway of America's tallest dam, which is in Oroville, CA (a few hrs east of us), has a huge freaking hole in it, so for the first time in the dam's 48-year history, they're having to use the emergency spillway.