Remembering all who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.

5.5 for me this morning.  Thought about meeting the 7 am group but I have a long day ahead of me so I got there late and sort of followed them.  Very humid but it's done.

Appropriate that you arrived just before me, Lori.  Today was the first run up in Maine which includes my own "Bertha"  aka "The Big Hill" and she (it?) won this morning.  Ended up walking up the last 50 yards or so, but still managed a pretty decent pace overall for just under 4 miles.  Nice cool and foggy morning.  Great for running, not so much for doing lake type stuff.  Oh well, we got most of that work out of the way yesterday.  Today comes with puttering around the boat house and trying to get rid of all the pinecones the squirrels shredded over the winter.

Erika---one or the other of those would have done me in.  Both are really impressive.  And nice that you're breaking in DIL2B early.

 

 

Kevin - How far is your lake cabin from your home?

 

BerthaSlayer - well done on your marathon, in spite of the heat and not being able to really run your own race.  And I think the comment from your coach was not called for.  5:42 is not a terrible time - there are loads of people who run slower marathons than that.  If I were you, given that you are trained up so well right now, I would be looking for another marathon to run in 4-6 weeks, if you can find one that won't be too hot.

 

10.4 miles for me this morning in 68-73 degrees.

 

Afterward, I took the dogs for a walk.  Rosie is still learning the etiquette of this, and spends a lot of time biting her leash.  Then she bite's Dexter's leash and sort of drags him around a bit.  Both dogs enjoy snacking on the cicadas that are fluttering around in the grass. 

I think I am going to continue to train to get faster. The coaching was indeed working. The coach wasn't trying to be insulting. I think he feels that longer endurance races may be my thing. Because really I can keep going for hours. And hours. And hours. I have that mental strength, I believe. It is the lack of speed that I personally want to remedy. If I could just combine them. The little race day details this weekend prevented the finish I wanted. I think I will wait until late fall or more likely early spring before I target another full. That means I won't be racing any of the ones that need to be registered for months in advance. Which is perfectly fine with me. So I am thinking of either the Martian once again or Glass City. Both are fairly local if I am willing to cross the border.

Hi everybody!

I ran seven on the treadmill after a fizzy lifting session this morning.  Actually felt good.  That's a big positive, considering I went a very slow 17 yesterday on the airline trail.  21 weeks until the marine corp marathon!  Next week starts the training.  I'm excited to get back into it!  Just need to lose some weight and stick to the schedule.

...hiya pbj......

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well,

turns out we got hit with 90-mile an hour Straight Line Winds

which

explains where all these friggin' trees came from.

............4-hours total

but not happy ones

.................good running to ya

tried to write a 2nd verse for my song

but

couldn't find a word that ryhmed with ''hernia''

In order 1600 yards in the pool (split in 3 different sets during guard breaks).

7x1200 VO2max repeats, which with warmup and cool down was 12.5 miles total.

Due to afternoon storms forecast we went to the pool early, and I got to do the intervals on the TM as the rain poured down.

Holly, good job on the run (go Team A!).

Hi PBJ! Good to have you back into training.

We got almost the whole garden in today! Just need to plant the beans and the beets, the seeds for which are soaking on the counter. I went for a run after over 3 hours in the garden and oh boy that was tough. 7.3 miles. Finished just before the wind really kicked up and some rain moved through.

Thank you to all the veterans who have served their country. Remembering those who gave their lives in service. We watched some shows on The History channel about Germany, Hitler and the years after the war ended. We really do need to remember so this will never happen again.

My owie on my leg felt much better yesterday morning but is still really swollen. The wound doesn't look as bad as Enke's did from her trail run, Tet. I do have a dandy bruise though. I did get in a bike ride after church yesterday while the winds were still fairly calm, 15-20 mph. Today I played in the Amazing City Band at the Memorial Day presentation at the park. After that I worked on some baby quilts I am making to donate to the Crisis Pregnancy Center. We didn't get the yard work done but there is always next weekend, hopefully less windy. We have has those straight line winds here, Tomwhite, kinda scary at times. Hope there wasn't too much damage.

Goodnight all!