That nuisance Tet and all his old woman worrying!  Okay, just kidding Tet, and great pics on your earlier post. But what do you think of our heroine now?  Nice work Ek!!

 

Gordon, good to hear from you and having a training partner.

 

I think dg, that Twocat who has argued with me over fueling issues in the past, is right with the slow steady consumption.   I liked CNY's approach, which is similar to the way Aamos does it.  Bring your own handheld for a couple of miles, then toss it and go with the aid stations.  There are some good arguments for this which have been discussed here before.

 

Speaking of hot female runners from Central NY, how about 6:55 pace for her?  Wow!  Nice running Karin.

 

Good work and prep Holly. A few details wouldn't hurt!

 

Nono, good luck in Philly.

 

Jlynne, nice PR and never sell yourself short.  All PR times are marvelous.  I mostly say this because I had one today, a post-surgery PR though.

 

They had 178 runners in the 5K I ran this morning.  Last week I did a fiveK in the rain on a flat course. I thought it would be a flat course today, but it turned out to be surprisingly hilly and a bit warm and humid.

 

Still in all, I felt pretty good during it, much better than last week. I ran 24:12, (7:48's) 15 seconds faster than last week and on a harder course so I was pretty happy. 20th OA and 1st AG. When they called my name to come up as the winner the race announcer said, "You won't believe this guy is racing just one year after open heart surgery," and there was a lot of applause which really moved me, so I imagine the picture they took of me looks like I just bit into a lemon. So little by little I am making progress. Spareribs

WTG Erika and Karin. Great job today! And Ribs - what could we say about someone running 7:48's a year after having open heart surgery. You are an amazing person. I hope you'll share some of the pictures they took today, even if you were eating a lemon!

Eliz - best of luck tomorrow. You've had a lot going on in your life lately. This race will be a great stress reliever. Just go for it!

I hope we get some race reports tomorrow. Congratulations to all of you.

 

P.S. The steak and spinach salad were marvelous.

Erika what a great race you had today. I hope you are having a well deserved post-race party.

Never ran a step today...ohh well...there is tomorrow.

Holly, terrific job on your HM. I can't wait to read the report.

Erika - Holy cow!!  Way to go!!!!  I can't wait to read your race report.

 

There was some incredible running from lots of peeps today.  Congratulations to you all.  And yes, Woods Lady, you are officially a runner.   And hey - could you please send some of that rain down our way?  We despartely need it.  BTW - Just where abouts in OR are you?  I'm in Eureka, CA.

 

We did a very casual 10 trail miles this morning.  Except for the fact that it was very humid and warm, it was a really pleasant run.  We stopped toward the end so Charlie Dog could swim.  We kept throwing the stick back in the water, and when he'd come out, we'd stand right next to him so he'd shake the water off him and all over us. Felt really good!   Between that and the berry picking the last mile - well, let's say our average pace took a nose dive.  Aaah, too bad.