Only a week late again dg-13.8 Miles + 2 walking +1:16 Strength + :40 elliptical + :10 bike...looks good to me Dutchie-6.58K + upper and lower work...good job evanflein-44.8 miles + 2.16 miles elliptical + 1:00 strength + :40 pool running + lots of walking...superb eliz-8.1 miles + 1.8 walking...we do what we can do... evryday-30 miles...excellent fatozzig-10.25 miles + core + lots of driving home lyndenrunner-25.2 miles pfriese-44.9 miles...nice week tetsujin-too busy tapering to post???

Thanks, Gordon - Mon - 3 miles, 9:23 ap; 1 hour core/strength Tues - Wimped out Wed - 3 miles, 9:41 pace; 1 hour core/strength Thurs - 5 miles, 10:00 ap. Tuff 5 miles! Too much leg strengthening yesterday. Fri - Rest Sat - Rest Sun - Rest This week starts more strength training as opposed to running, but I will definitely get in the 17+ I need to have 1,000 for the year.

Thanks again Gordon. Trying again, sigh. Mon....51minutes of strength training for chest/back and abs, plus 5.5K easy on the TM Tue....strength training: shoulders. And that was it for today. Wed...strength training: biceps and abs Thu....strength training: triceps, followed by 5.5K sort of an interval run and finished with a short endurance leg w/o, including abs and a stretch Fri......rest day as planned Sat....UB strength training: found this exercise dvd I forgot I had. Then the day got away from me and I never got my run in. Darn Xmas shopping! I hate shopping! I hate Xmas shopping even more. Sun...very short run: 2.1K... and lots of laundry! Total mileage: 13.1K, that's double I did last week Fattozig: what do you do during a one hour core w/o? Do you go to a class?

thanks Gordon! I was going to put in results for you because you're not nice to yourself, but then remembered that I could't. Dutchie.. I bugged you about this on the other thread.. but re the DVT, is there any prevention?? Mon:.... 1 mile on the TM in my pj's & Nike Frees. Ha! & the day is not over yet. Tues;... nothing Wed.... nothing Thurs... 20 minutes of the injured runner dvd Fri..... 20 minutes to finish that & also some prehab. 3+ miles on the treadmill downstairs. Sat.... 7.06 miles by the river yay, snow & ice & frozen nose. so happy to get out. Sun... 20 min. elliptical, 3.23 run 9:42 pace, 25 min. biking, 33 min. of weight machines & stab. ball.. reverse crunches & side planks. Gordon.. I'm a week late too. . this is my second week of being sick so thanks for not calling me a sloth last week. though I felt/feel like one. wrong kind of inertia. I'm feeling much better but this thing really hangs on. whine whine (hack cough) whine. totals: 14.7 mile run, the usual walking, 20 min. elliptical, 25 min. biking, (erika, I should keep track of the miles on these.. I see it, but then I forget) 1 hr. 20 min. strength training.

dg.: if it ever was a DVT type thing. Symptoms fit: pain, redness, swelling and warmth. But it disappeared again all by itself within a week. My guess is this might not have been it at all. For quick and easy reference you can read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paget-Schroetter_disease Articles I found seem to suggest that the causes have to do with the thickness of your blood and clotting properties. Genetics might come into play here too, cause some people have better clotting properties than others (hemophilia comes to mind). I also found an article suggesting that oral contraceptives can attribute to it. When diagnosed you will get medication, like anticoagulation or blood thinners. Apparently a daily dose of aspirin is sometimes prescribed. It's not a common thing to happen and I'm guessing not every doctor will know about it. The articles I've read suggest it is more likely to happen in young male athletes.

Day	Plan	Actual	Comment
Monday	rest day	rest day - done
Tuesday	6 miles	6 miles - done	11:00/mile avg pace; treadmill
Wednesday	8 miles	7.8miles - done	9:11/mile avg pace
Thursday	8 miles	8.1 miles - done	9:35/mile avg pace
Friday	5 miles	4.7 miles - done	9:37/mile avg pace
Saturday	14 miles	11.5 miles - done	9:30/mile avg pace
Sunday	rest day	3.0 miles - done	12:00/mile avg pace; treadmill
Total	40 miles	41.1 miles - Done

Paul

A bi-coastal week M-4 mi in CA winter (showers), then 3000 mi of sitting T-strength training class; ball core class W-3 mi TM; 1 mi elliptical: lots of sweat Th-ball core class- AM; yoga PM Fri-5.5 mi before-the-snow run Sat-Shoveling fluff Sun-yoga followed by 1.5 hrs of shoveling cement blocks of snow up to shoulder high peaks, ugh Summary: 12.5 mi + winter work outs Good thing there's lots of Christmas goodies around.

Erika, thanks. It's not my knees this time. I have a pinched nerve in my neck. Pain starts in my neck and radiates through my right shoulder and down my right arm to my hand, which is partly numb. This has been a problem for years. Somehow I earned the Army's Physical Fitness Excellence patch this year, even though some days I could barely comb my hair or pick up the cat. Recently the pain became intolerable, to the point that I could barely drive a car, even with one arm, because the vibration of riding in the car hurt my neck and shoulder and arm. For two weeks now I have been taking hydrocodone, naproxen, and prednisone, and these medications keep me functional, some days more so than others. I am waiting for an MRI to be scheduled soon, which may tell us more about what is going on. On a positive note, last Monday I was hired for a full-time job teaching Latin. I auditioned by teaching a class while doped up to the gills. And Dark Colt is really coming on as a runner. After quitting running for two years while I was away--he was in a funk during my deployment, and wouldn't even go to school for a while--he resumed running this past fall and was at once the best 7th grader on the middle school cross-country team. Today at the gym while I was plodding through 5 miles on the treadmill in 44:20, and feeling lucky to be able to do that, a few treadmills down from me he ran 5 miles in 34:20, 10 minutes faster! Still only 12. He's some kid, and not just as a runner. Earlier this year he got a perfect score on the math section of the statewide MCAS exam, and a near-perfect score on the English section. Last week at the middle school concert he was fantastic on the drums. Physically he's very tough. Last summer he and I backpacked 70 miles and 12 peaks in New Hampshire. Tonight he and Bucking Bronco shoveled snow with me for an hour and a half without a word of complaint: we've had two feet since Friday. You hear more from me about Dark Colt because he's a runner, but I'm a proud papa of two great boys. Dark Horse