Hey fine folks.......

3 miles of Kansas hills  for me this evening.    It was a touch warm and the breeze kept me cool.

No time to chat, LMD has a homemade veggie pizza coming out of the ovn. 

Later.........

LOL!!  Mary Kay! Hah! I'm more likely to have a pr of pliers & a screwdriver in my bag than any type of makeup - unless you count sunscreen lipbalm as makeup!!

& Yes, Leslie - having a hot tub 30' from my "work station" = bathing suit in the car...& change of clothes, etc.. I actually have a ski rack on the top for the board when Mairead is with me - she doesn't like it in the back with her...can't say I blame her...it looks a little weird & has sharp edges!

Got my run out of the way before the breezes fired up! 5 surprisingly frisky miles w/Mairead before heading back up to Breck for the back end of the week. It's amazing what a little more sleep will do for the quality!!!

Boss lady is STILL trying to talk me into working more  

Think I got on a massage team for RAGBRAI in July!!  Woo-Hoo!!  There's a cute little 26 mile group run in my hometown just the wknd before.....

C

Morning, Peeps ~

Happy Thoisday to you all.

Unfortunately, the weather report for this weekend is not changing; rather, it's gotten a tad worse.  70% chance of rain, basically from about San Fran north, beginning today and all through next week.  Highs for Saturday in the low 50s.  Boo hoo!   I have a different strategy  for my hands this time.  A friend gave me two pairs of cheap - but warm! - gloves as a joke.  I'll be wearing a pair under my regular gloves.  If they're soaked when I come through the start/finish, I have another regular pair I'll change in to with the cheap gloves.

 On another note - 3 EZ miles this a.m. in colder than anticipated weather.  Glad I wore my winter tights.  The calf is still causing me problems.  The few times I had to stop for traffic or adjust clothing, it would immediately tighten up.  Rolled it really good last night and this a.m., and have been stretching it.  Even brought the tie to my robe with me to work so I can stretch it throughout the day.

Nice to see you all are still here! I'm procrastinating about lots of stuff and was in filling in some of my log and thought I would swing in for a few. Looks like everyone is doing well and some new members too-sweet! Good luck this weekend, Leslie. I got your last race report and am going to make time to read it-I started but you're right-it's long!

I'm doing OK-just when you think life couldn't possibly get any crazier well it has. Or I like to think of it better as a trail run where there are lots of trails and you go down one path to see what it's like, then you come to another path and decide to check out that one and you just keep going-checking out different paths.

So you all know I was taking classes towards becoming a physical therapist. Late last fall, I figured that goal was too far away and way too expensive. I explored other paths-pt assistant, respiratory therapy, nursing but came across another program being offered at the college I've been taking online classes through.  The program started in January, it's six months long and not costing me a thing-I'm studying/training to be a Software Support person for Electronic Medical Records. I just finished 3 online classes which was a jolt to the schedule-I'm used to one class at a time and these are college-level, 12 week courses being crammed into 7 weeks. They weren't kidding when I was warned to plan 25-30 hrs/wk for studying and homework! It didn't take long for me to give my notice at my Stowe Mtn Lodge gym job. I'm still at the other gym in Burlington but I can only be there when I have clients and it's fine to sit and study in between clients- I couldn't do that in Stowe. Monday, two new classes begin for 7 weeks.

My other big news is two things-Jack and I are trying to be a couple again. It's been a little over a month and so far things are well. The other is I had knee surgery last week. I had a tumor removed from my left knee-nothing cancerous, just some cells going crazy. It's been there for a while and never hurt but was starting to get big enough to interfere with my knee functioning correctly. It would sometimes get in the way where I couldn't straighten my leg and walk very well. So I haven't run since March 8, surgery was on the 9th and I can pedal a bike for 15 min already!! I can walk on it just fine-depending how stiff it is, I have a slight limp. We all know about stiff knees! :-) So it's also an early end to my ski season but I planned it this way so as not too interfere too much with running.

I guess that's about it-I've thought about stopping by before but hated to post all about me. Go figure why I am tonight-guess I miss you guys. I'm presenting at a trainer's clinic on Saturday and I haven't hardly started my Marathon Training 101 presentation for it-that's what I'm procrastinating about. The boys are fine-both bigger than me but I'm still Mom and can make life miserable when necessary :-)

Speaking of the boys-I need to get Charles. Take care! Kelly

Have a great race, Leslie.  Hope you don't get TOO soggy.

Knock 'em down, Les!

Hey Ultra!

Good luck Arla!

Hey Stump!

Nice easy 3spot for me this afternoon. 

Pretty speedy, there, Joe.  "...one for the gold..."  I like it.

Kelly - thanks for the newsy post - here's to a full recovery for your knee, sounds like it should be fine very quickly.

Leslie - sending warm thoughts...

Planning 14 today and 20 - 22 tomorrow, should be pouring rain and wind with gusts up to 45 tomorrow -what fun!