Tim & Mary....we are looking forward to your RRs. Sweet. Lots of runnin here in Traverse City, Mary. If you want to put a couple of miles in e mail me "smpankowski" at hotmail dot com 4.2 miles..Got to see a rainbow....Sweet. I'm not knockong myself out at work as much and things are getting caught up around the house. Sweet. The bathroom scale and I got into a screaming match. Some changes must be made. Freakin' thing feeds of off humiliation. While re-roofing the garage, I noticed a fox den in our back yard. The rodent poplulation has been down and foxes are kewl. However, they do eat pets and our cat said she wouldn't like that so much. They can carry dieases and, though I'll teach our grandson how to foam at the mouth (his poor teachers), we'd rather he didn't get rabies. FWIT, I miss Ribs and Karin.

Aamos--probably a little late, but we really love Gilbert's for chowder (in a bread bowl) along the waterfront in Portland. Never had the clams there, but they look awful good coming out of the kitchen. If you venture over to Bean's while you're in the area, Harraseekett (sp?) Lunch and Lobster has really good clams (those I've had ) Plus it's right on the harbor. FWIW, saying clams with bellies is redundant--clam strips aren't clams Kevin

I'm so happy that my pie and yumminess thread has responses. but just in case no one wanted to talk about such delicacies, I was totally prepared to carry on a whole conversation with myself in that thread talking all about pies and ice cream. And there would be absolutely no mention of brussel sprout pies or fried clam ice cream at all. That's just wrong. Ok, I ran today (had to with all that pie talk!) This was track workout #2. It was HOT tonight. It had to be at least 90 at 5 p.m. when I started and of course, it feels even warmer on that black track. I had to take water breaks after every mile. I think this session went even a bit better than last weeks. I did sort of the same thing as last week. A mile warm-up (9.21) Miles 2 and 3, I did 400m alternating speed and recovery laps, with my speedy laps being 1.53, 1.56, 1.58, 1.53 and recovery laps consistently about 2.23. Then I did 1.5 miles of cooldown at 10 min/miles. I think last week, my fastest speed lap was 1.57, so I felt good about getting a couple of 1.53's in there. And I'm sure the football team that was practicing in the middle of the track had nothing to do with it. Nor did the district attorney who was also running laps and who just happened to win the murder trial from last week have anything to do with me running faster. Nope. It's just pure training and discipline that is paying off. . .