Leslie - congrats on your award and be careful on that Bosu! Good luck to our racers Cindy and Doug! Cindy, treat your body well, I know you'll do fine, you've done your 20 miler, just take it easy...and we're waiting breathlessly for the RR... Carol - wow, you are FAST - great race and a negative 3rd split, someday maybe you'll catch your extra-speedy mom Kelly - $*&% flaky clients! I feel the same way about students who don't show up for class (then whine when they don't do well on the exams - like someone's gonna throw 'em a pity party). I agree that you should charge them if they don't show and don't notify you in a timely fashion, they should have to pay for your time. My doctor and dentist both do that, BTW - $20 if you don't give them 24 hr cancellation notice. Jim - good to hear you're sorting out your shoe issues. It's unbelievable how much trouble the wrong shoes can cause. My first pair of running shoes literally broke my foot. Light-ish mileage week this week, then traveling to the wine country next weekend for a HM that has a 15 mi option, the plan is to run the scheduled 14 then do a gentle walking cool-down, ...oh and then take the bus back for the wine festival! Here's the link - looks like a pleasant course, there are 21 wineries along the way, some of them will be setting up refreshments including wine for those so inclined (I think that would honestly make me puke but it's a festive idea): http://www.runhealdsburg.com/site5.aspx Have a great weekend! Arla Modified to fix link

Evening, everyone - Carol - Congrats to you and your mom! She's quite the running whiz kid, isn't she? Cindy - Good luck to you and Doug. You guys are gonna do great. I know I'm late, but if you read this, a couple of names: Pam, my boss' wife - breast cancer/mastectomy survivor, and Marlene, one of my best buds, cancer survivor. Jewels - What kind of speech do you have to give? Deep breaths, you'll do great. Intended to do an easy 5 miles this a.m. Got about 2.25 down the road and realized I had forgotten something rather important and had to get back home pronto. I ended up with 4.5 miles w/an av pace of 9:48, and that's with walking up a long hill. Ha! My coach would kill me! Suppose to be taking it nice and easy this and next week. It's unbelievable how long you can hold a certain pace when you have to get done. Hope everyone else is having a great weekend. Will spend the day tomorrow with my dad at the movies. We haven't spent any time together in a few weeks. Later!

Okay. I finally finished my report - Fatozzig's Place.

Beautiful location for a race. Congrats to Lynda and Jonathon! Glad you got some schwag, too!

Leslie - Awesome RR! I think that's an appealing introductory trail run except for the 18 FREAKIN' DEGREES!! Is it always that cool this time of year? Jim - Fun pics of the race and congrats to Lynda and WOW look at Jonathan kickin' it in! Jewels - Gotta love those assigned talk topics - NOT. You could have some fun with it by speaking against freedom of religion, just to show how an argument can be made for any position. Just a thought - depends on what your instructor might tolerate, of course. Lovely morning for running here today, 57F at 9:30 am, and there were TONS of runners out there, I guess the cool weather is bringing people outside and off their treadmills Arla

Woohoo, Cindy, you made it! Sorry about the ankle issues, but you did it! Wow, Doug did really well, too!

Good job Cindy and Doug! Nice report too! Leslie. Nice pics Jim! Good job Lynda! Catch up with you all tomorrow! Kelly