absolutely lovely tammy. what a sweet and thoughtful husband you have.

5 miles total tonight on the sand -- did 7 x 400 @3K pace...walked the recoveries.  Mile w/u and cool down splashing in the water (I did have my trail shoes on).  Felt good.  Better than it should have.

Have a good night everyone!

Lots of good midweek long runs above...Leslie, you got up at 4:15 to run 18 miles? Criminy...

Yasso 800's tonight, 8X sub-3:20 (:13, :16, :18, :16, :16, :18, :14, :13)  w/ 1/4 mile jog in between.....and enough WU/WD to make 8 miles.

Time for dinner. Walt

thanks tammy, . . . and your great guys.

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me too slohand

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aamosalina - I wish the other ones would be here too again but there's another buerhle in town.

Hey Lou, it wasn't an opinion, just a suggestion. Take it or leave it.

We're in Kenai for soccer this week, with ok weather and games going our way so far.

Our coach quit. He'll do the semi's and the finals (assuming we make
it that far), but he's tired of the boys' attitudes and snottiness.
Lovely. We got a long e-mail about how he's failed in his goals as
coach, and will be resigning after this tournament. Our kids do have a
problem, with cockiness and mouthiness... but I have to think that the
right person could pull them together and do something great with
them. I'm so saddened (again) that our original coach died
unexpectantly and early. What a tragic loss for her family, our team
and the whole community. I don't think the team has ever really
recovered and moved on.

My running has been going well, but I've had to rearrange my whole
week. Monday I ran my recovery run (4.5 miles) way too fast (8:17
avg). Tuesday I ran 11 miles, with hills and tempo stuff, 8:13 avg.
Wednesday I ran 6.5 miles @ 8:31 avg pace, good enough for what I was
trying to do (5 EZ) but I misjudged the distance back to the cabin.
Today I ran Sunday's 20 miler, because it was a day off from soccer
and Kris spent the night with friends at the main hotel. We got to bed
sort of late from our cookout here, and lots of wine, but I made it
out at 9 am and ran 21 miles at 8:21 avg pace. Lots of hills in the
first half, faster pace on the second half. Very happy with this run,
my first negative split/fast finish really long run in a long time.
Mile 15 @ 8:18
Mile 16 @ 8:12
Mile 17 @ 8:07
Mile 18 @ 8:03
Mile 19 @ 8:00
Mile 20 @ 8:15 (had some uphill to contend with)
Mile 21 @ 8:01

Walked .6 mile afterward talking to my folks, it's raining hard in
Fairbanks. Hope the fires get put out soon!

Semi-finals tomorrow at noon, after a team meeting at 10:30. Then
finals at noon on Saturday and then we're out of here. Will overnight
in Anchorage Saturday night and go home Sunday. Hope to get in another
5 miler and a 10 miler before we go home