Hey y'all, getting late so a quick post.  Went for a 6.5 mile bike ride around the base this afternoon.  Glad I only have my old (but still awesome) steel Pinarello here.  The road is in pretty rough shape in places.  Not sure on the pace (yet).  After work I went for a run along the same course (although longer since I came from where I'm billeted.  7.8 miles.  Also the first time I've run around the base without walking.  When I was here two years ago I was just starting to "easy" run again.  Then the last couple of weeks (and still) I've been trying to ignore and run through the right knee pain.  Anyway, decent day for me.  We'll see how tomorrow goes.

Have a great night everyone!

Oh Nancy, you'll love that Victoria marathon! I had fun doing that with MustangSally, Sans Souci and Labduck! All names from the past, right? So no surgery? At one point you said you were off to see the knee surgeon. I hope not. I hear most people, especially women, our age don't benefit from meniscus surgery.

Jlynne, sorry to hear that and know what you're talking about. I'm a few (not many, but a few) years younger than you and finding it very hard to recover my lost running fitness from my 10 weeks off. And I was cross training like a bandit, and it feels like it was all for nothing: I feel like I'm starting over at square one. *sigh* Be strong, fren. Hope you feel better soon.

I didn't get to even scan the thread till tonight, and didn't go back to ready the end of Tuesday's thread so need to see what's up with Steve. It's been so crazy busy around here, the days just fly by. But funny, during the day sometimes it feels like the clock stops. I can't wait to be done with all this.

So... today was nice and warm! Got up to 70° by my thermometer, probably "only" 69° officially. (twocat, did you notice?) Tomorrow should be nice, too, and maybe 70 tomorrow or Friday. And, of course, it'll cool off to low 50's for the weekend. That's what I can't stand. How does "it" know that we're off on the weekend so would really like to have these warm temps on the weekend!! Oh well, at least no snow in the forecast.

7.6 miles tonight that felt like a struggle. See paragraph #2 above... seems like it's taking me forever to recover from the 5k race and then the "long" run of 9 miles. Can't wait till that feels easy again, or at least not needing days of recovery from.