Woods Lady-thank you for your kind comments. Your 360 is great for the little time you've been running-(I have 36 years of running behind me). Good luck on New Year's Day.    

Wild Child- even if I'm not wearing a running jacket (which I wear on cold days) I just carry my subway pass and a credit card-I also have a couple of Race Ready running shorts-ideal for carrying stuff and not getting weighed down.

Karin-I'm jealousl-wish I could be at Fenway on Friday (I'm a great hockey fan).

Hmmm, I think Twocat means FICA as opposed to FICO. I think we're talking Social Security and not credit scores here... But that's right in that the employer saves on payroll taxes, and the employee saves on federal taxes.

7 miles at just under 8:30 avg pace... temps were -11F for the most part. Where I turned around at one point the sign said -13, but my car said -11 where I started and it's pretty accurate. Legs felt pretty good but oh boy am I out of shape. Had to stop a couple times on the uphill parts (over the railroad overpass) to catch my breath and stopped a couple times to de-ice my eyelashes.

Glad to see that we're not the only ones paying for the grown kids cars.  DW moved DS's car off the road (winter parking ban) and said--Do you know that the brakes go almost to the floor?  Oh yah, it's been that way for a while   our friendly mechanic has it now and I hope he'll be gentle.