afternoon folks!!  no run for me today or any of the past days since my 4 miles on saturday -- worked 3 nights in a row and had some trying times with son -- he's had a rough couple of days with more confusion and paranoid thoughts but we are working with the therapist and hospital -- one hour one day at a time for us........i appreciate all your thoughts and prayers so much!!    hopefully i can get a run in and destress tonight after some of this H&H abates and dh will be home to keep an eye on things.

SteveP -- you are a crack up!!  (just reread yesterdays thread)

Cranium -- congrats on your synthesis presentation (altho i have no idea what that is)  and your thoughts on making sure you wife feels loved and appreciated is inspiring -- we celebrated 27 years last friday and it is a wonderful place to be but comes with work, patience, understanding and love.

 Holly, Breger, Mariposai -- your speed is so impressive!!

Teresa - i am hoping to be at the campground this weekend if things are calm with ds -- he did enjoy it this past weekend -- i know you're running Beach2Beacon saturday but if you're up to a recovery run sunday let me know, i may stay up during the week depending on ds -- you have my cell number in your inbox - would love to meet up with you anytime!!

SteveP -

After having to unstaple and copy a stack of papers a ream thick this a.m. - <rant on> I firmly believe that people who double staple documents, use dinky little staples, and or use staples that staple so frigging tight it takes an act of God to get it out of the document, should be flogged to within an inch of their lives with steel cables covered in thousands of open staples.  %*&#$%  %^%^&*($#   !$%&*^%    <rant off>

Okay - I feel better.

Now then, to my predawn activities.  3 feel good miles, which included having the crap scared out of me by either a possum or raccoon that I probably scared the crap out of in the first place, followed by 1.25 hours of core/strength training.  I feel like I got some good sleep last night (which is rare), but it's 12:30 and I'm fading.  Hopefully lunch will kick in soon and help.

deez - good to hear from you.  Continuing to send healing vibes to your DS.

Teresa - Re: "Amherst" with no "h:"  if you're ever in my neck of the woods and want to sound like a local, be sure not to pronounce the first "r" in Swarthmore.  It should sound like "swath"-"more." 

Really and truly did get up to run early this morning, but we were in the middle of a wild thunderstorm.  Promptly fell back to sleep until 9 a.m.  Spent the morning learning some new stuff on the computer with which to hopefully continue to wow the young'uns that I teach with.  Paddled for 2 hours this afternoon against a strong wind most of the way.  On the way back, I basically just steered without paddling and got back from the nearest bridge (a trip that generally takes 15 minutes or so when I'm paddling) in about 12 minutes. 

Beach walk tonight in the crazy wind, if the thunderstorms hold off.  Setting the alarm early again tomorrow in hopes of finally getting to the boardwalk to run, or even to walk.

Eliz

Nancy, I use to can fruit just like that .  It made me feel thrifty, and ready to take on the world.  I have kept all my supplies, but haven't canned a thing for years.  I was thinking about you when I was running up in the woods today, by the way, and remembering that Renee' told me before I had ever met you - that you are a really good runner.  True, and neat person also.

    I had a  productive 3 and about  3/4 mile run today on the Forest Service Road.  I took up ribbons.  After I got up the trail hill (.433 mile or so) and on the actual road, I ran my pace time for a mile, and tied a ribbon to a branch, then turned around and ran back to my starting point.  Then I went the other direction, which has steeper and more hills, and ran half a mile my pace time , tied another ribbon to a twig, and turned around and came back.  I'm not writing very well about it, but I now have a rough course that I have marked with ribbons, and can use as a guide to how I am doing for time and/or pace.   I ran hard (hey, I don't have to do walk segments any more! Woo Hoo!), and got good and sweaty, then raced myself coming back down my hill trail to home.   A real good and also productive run.   

    Keep cool, everyone.  I'm lucky to be on the coast.  About 75 right now.     Woods Lady

Wow, you must have a tremendous pantry, Mariposai! I run out of room with just the few things I put up.

When we moved here last year, DH built shelves in the upstairs coat closet and made it into an extra pantry for us.  VERY helpful.  The coats we moved down to a closet by the door to the garage, which is where we enter and leave anyway.

Spareribs - interesting article. "What an athlete is born with is what he or she must live with."  is something that we pretty much already knew, but I didn't realize that there were two types of fast-twitch fibers.  Makes Tinman's intervals make even more sense.

I can personally testify that Mariposai's cherries are quite good!  Winter or not!

Another popper inner  to say hello

Congrats Craneium!  Hugh stress relief.

Mariposai, my MIL cans quite a bit and we LOVE living so close   We just got some more jam this past weekend.

Thanks for the link Ribs, I'll have to try that weight thing to see about the FT/ST composition.

I traded my run yesterday for pilates work and took my normal rest day today.  I've been having some rt achilles twinges that I'm trying to be proactive about letting heal.  I'm currently icing daily.

Ribs (or others):  I remember you had some achilles troubles a while back.  Any tips on recovery??  I recently read to continue icing for two weeks once there's no longer any pain/twinge. 

Good night

Amie