Early morning Saturday run for me, as we have a horde of homebrewers coming to our house for the monthly meeting of BURP (brewers united for real potables), the largest DC metro homebrew club. Still some work to get ready, but at least yesterday I cleaned out the tap lines and faucets for my beer so as not to be embarrassed. 8 easy miles with a few striders thrown in this morning in a light rain, 32F, but not overly unpleasant. Workout: 7.1 miles, 8:27/mi, AHR 144 Overall: 8.1 miles, 1:08 Good runs -- go racers!

...checking frantically for a flight to MD this morning...

Good Morning! WRFB - still holding out hope you'll bring a keg to Boston...hint...hint.... Tall - Hot tub party in the snow? That sounds like fun! 7.15 recovery-paced miles (ave. pace 10:18) for me today in 23 degrees with a light new slick layer on the roads. Though I was treading carefully, I still managed to slip and skid down the apron of my driveway, feet shooting out from under me as I landed flat on my back. Sheesh – there’s grace for you……Thankfully, no lasting damage. Off to swim lessons, then more of the rabid housecleaning so we can take photos today to use in the listing ad. Happy Saturday!

Afternoon Gang Just had a look at a Honda Pilot, you should get 2 kegs in there So, did a 6 miler in the drizzle undulating as usual, must look for a flat course over 3 miles. Anyway 6m 1:04:45 10:48 pace AHR 152 72% Good Runs All Roy

WOW I did it....made page 1!!! About 5.7 for me this morning with my TNT group. We were on the ATT and there was a little drizzle. Really enjoyable. WRFB -- Can you guys pick me up at the airport before the beer party??!!

I guess it's been slippery out there, with falls for Wildchild, sound, and Holly. It doesn't sound like the damage was too serious. Be careful guys and gals. Sarge, it sounds like you had quite a bout with the strep. Your walk/run makes be think you're recovering. Nice long runs for dtoce, breger (with repeats), enkephalin, and Peter. Good job on the speedwork for biketm (in snowstorm). When I got up this morning, it was just above zero and so I did the TM again. I did 12 miles at 1% and 6.3 mph (9:31 pace). Now that it's 5 hours later, the temp is about 30 and the sun is out. Oh well, what's done is done and it's behind me. A good day and good runs for all. TomS

sounds like it's shaping up to be a greta weekend with the brew party, hot tub party, birthday party! Holly, glad you bounced back up without any damage. That ice can be trecherous treacher bad. Sarge, ease back into it. I'm just now back from a relatively minor bout of the flu...it's really been widespread around here this year. Jlynne, glad you made it out and didn't have to use the TM Tom, glad you had the TM so you could still get your run in! 12 miles on TM It's just above freezing here with drizzle/light rain. I'm gonna get out on the trails here in a bit and will post the run later this afternoon. Go Boom!

Right now Lent is in the way of my drinking beer, but I may go to Boston just to mooch off Lou and Harriet as the taps reopen March 23. What a nice gift they bring to the Boston party! Foot hurt all day yesterday and so far today. I was going to jog 3, but I may walk some instead. Here is an observation I have. Ever notice that when people get hurt they drop off the board? From the point of view of the injured person, they get tired of posting "today I am hurt and didn't do anything", or "45 minutes on the elliptical." To us, it feels like "I am not really training, so who cares that I walked 3 miles?" I get like this, so I post or don't post and kind of indifferent about the whole thing. But when you are training it's a heck of a lot of fun to post your run. Much more mental energy involved, you feel like you're really part of the group. One tough aspect of PF is the way my work goes. I stand up in front of groups, for about 8 hours a day, then have a lot of walking (back to hotel, through airports, standing around), then long plane rides. I don't think this is good for PF, because when I run on the road as I did in Baltimore, I didn't have time then to ice it and do all my other post-exercise exercise. But whether I run or not, from the point of view of reading the posts, I take more enjoyment at reading about how others are doing, if I see that they are trying to improve, or if they are seriously training for something, or if I see that there is a neat lesson learned that someone shares. The Boston trainers are fun to read right now for example. And there are some people who just post the neatest or funniest stuff. Batman is always entertaining, BTB and biketm come to mind as being kind and insightful. So whether I post or not, I still stay up with the daily. Sorry to ramble today. SueT. I got home last night 9 p.m. and immediately started a batch of dough. Bread getting better and better every day. Spareribs