Nice pictures Cindy! You beat me to it! I was just waiting for some more snow and we're getting it! Of course, that's when I went out for my run. I could hardly see where I was going on the way back running into a northwest wind and icycles on my eye lashes. Glad it was just water and not sweat. This is our grill at 3:45 this afternoon THis is our grill at 10:15pm tonight and it's still coming down So I got 6.5 miles in today. The snow was grippy so I wasn't sliding too much-just the silly cars weren't giving me much room on the side of the road. Going to Stowe tomorrow to teach-skiing should be fabulous!! Have a great weekend! Kelly MTA-I shrunk the pictures! I guess not small enough.

Love the snow pics Kelly.....great runs for you as well. Hope your feeling better today Leslie.....when you went to the ER those couple of times, what sorta tests did they run on you? It's been a week since my last run. Went out this morning and within a mile I was hurting. Really hurts on the outside of the knee and up the thigh into the butt area. Really stinks.....I guess I'll give it another week of rest and see how it goes. Go figure, light work schedule, no school, all the time in the world to run now and I can't. O.K., that's my pity party! Have a great weekend.......Jewels

2.1 miles 3 deg -12 wc just about my HTFU limit. Worst thing about a short run is about the time you warm up its over but keeping most of my runs short til I get over some owies. Leslie I'm no dr and I am a long ways from a Holiday Inn Express, but maybe stress is a contributer, hope you can get it checked out by a real doc. Joe fantastic year, 2k mi and a marathon!! Kelly let it snow,come to CO and we'd take a lesson from ya!! Cindy how far from the mtn house to Breck? That I -70 vail pass pic didn't look like fun. I hate sun afternoons on that road!! Jewels take care of that knee thigh thing, is that what they call Runners' Knee? Carol maybe your gym friend will run with ya outside if you did the swim with her? Ev apparently you and your wife have been up front with each other evr since Arla are you done with the 20 milers and about to enter "taperdom"?

Finished up the rest of my shopping this morning.....Kenny and girls went Christmas shopping together. Hopefully since they went with him I won't end up with a dual bag vacuum cleaner or pots n' pans. It is definately not any type of tightness. I've had my share of that and can easily stretch things out within a couple of days. This is "can't go any further pain". Outside of knee pain first and then the butt bone area gets super sore. Don't know if they are both related or not..... Anyway, went and visited my niece in the hospital this morning. We are more like cousins rather than Aunt and niece because she is only 8 years younger then me. So.....this is her 2nd back surgery. They had to remove the old rod as something collapsed and the rod was too short so they had to replace it with a longer rod. Her surgery was last Wed. morning and she is barely walking. She's going to heal just fine.....but it puts a little perspective on how lucky I really am to be able to do what I do. Thanks everyone.... and Leslie, make sure you get things checked out as soon as you can! Jewels

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Ugh!! Ev - Isn't it great when a run turns out nice like that? Jewels - Yes, perspective is everything. But something's going on with your knee. You shouldn't be getting that kind of pain. Have you talked to your doctor? What about your shoes? (not talk to them, how many miles on 'em.) Carol - It sounds like you have a load of work to do before Christmas. Maybe you should ditch it all and go to Hawaii! Arla - How are you? Where are you? Kelly - Must be busy, busy, busy. Cindy - We know she's incommunicado most of the time. I don't think I understand completely - do they move to their mountain house this time of the year so she can work at the resort?? Joe - I like Carol's idea of a Buddy Garmin. Don't worry, folks. I plan on calling my nurse practitioner on Monday. She's very opened minded, and if I say, hey, can we check this out? She'll be all for it. Made a big ole pot of Navy beans and ham hock and cornbread for dinner. Yum!

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Hey Gang! So good to see ya'll happily thriving in here! I know I seen Arla on page 2.... ...Thanks Stevie Ray...& I'll give that tinypic thing a go...that last one came directly from a Blackberry (& viewed on a BB they all look the same!) rather than a regular camera (wth is that anyway!?) Good lookin snow there Kelly! Hey! you only ski? or do you also ride?? (I primarily ride) Mt Dew Challenge (including Shawn, Gretchen, Hannah, etc...) going on in Breck this wknd....freaking cold yesterday in the terrain park tho!! Yup, Carol...I'm being careful on the mtn roads...I have an "appropriate" vehicle & going slow is a condition of ski traffic .... & sometimes the conditions pictured are very temporary (thank goodness!!) Jewels: in lieu of spending $45+ for a stick or foam roller...take a hot bath (pref w/Epsom salts) & dig out your rolling pin ....it may feel loose, but it's gotta be pulling somewhere...pay attention to right above, outside edge, the knee & up by the hip....google it to see where the attachments are! makes it make sense why it pulls where it does.. R2: (me & Doug giggling about your HTFU limit comment!! - 9News has wc @ -10 this am so far!!)...mtn house is 45 miles over Hoosier pass from Breckenridge in the Winter - a bit SE...about an hour on a "good day" fortunately, CDOT keeps hwy 9 (Hoosier) diligently open due to the proximity of Cheyenne Mtn! (NORAD) so, I-70 is an infrequent nightmare of ours....ski tfc makes that even worse! However, my DS#1, who currently lives @ the mtn house, drives up & down I-70 btwn Dotsero & Silverthorne all day long in a 2 whl dr van! as a part of his job! & to answer your ?? Leslie - sorta! I "base" out of the mtn house while working the resort....which means I'm trying to have consecutive work days up there, where I just drive back & forth btwn Breck & the mtn house on work days. When off work, I'm back down in Littleton. Trying to be set up for life in both homes - only the mtn house has no internet...Breck has some free wifi spots which require me toting in my laptop & having "free time" & I can access (most days) via Blackberry...but it's a challenge to write much on that....more concerned w/ironing out the wrinkles for running....Hey! one of my new co-workers is a born-n-raised Arcata native!! She said to give ya a wave!! Hope you get your stomach issues worked out....I'm still a big believer in Ginger! Nice runs Ev! ....since you're having such nice weather, could you run a few for me...I'm missing like 25 miles this week...oh! & last week too Joe: Doug says we should develop a "dogometer" to track mileage! ....could make some $$ Huge Congrats on the 2000 btw!! mebbe you could help Ev get my mileage in...that way I could tell Mairead there are "doggie miles" happenin' I spent 15 hrs travel time going up to Hastings, NE & back yesterday/last night, to get some of the kids to bring back here for Christmas - Doug's daughter & her SO, who are legally blind, & their two little ones....we're really trying to have as big a housefull as possible! Would be the first time to have all of the grandkids here for Christmas (if DS#2's moody wife allows it! right now she's being difficult on all fronts! ) DS#1 will be dropping off Abby after the FB game today (I didn't get tickets to go watch that I'll miss her performance, relieved that I'll miss sitting through 8* weather for a FB game! ) Now, I have today & tomorrow off to try to get as much done as possible, before going back up to Breck to work Tues/Wed...& come skidding back down for Christmas stuff.... I hear a baby talking now....& I'm the only adult up! Laters! Cindy