Nice run to start us out, Susan. Dave59 – Yahoo Calendar works pretty well for me, but then I transfer events to the big calendar hanging on the side of the fridge. Pfriese – 67 miles on a bicycle! How long does it take you to ride that? It took me 90 minutes to ride 16 miles yesterday, and I thought I was going at a brisk clip. Of course, I realize that my mountain bike is not exactly built for flying. The kids didn’t catch any fish yesterday, but had a blast just casting over and over. DS told me it was the most fun he’d had in ages. Fishing – who’da thought? No run for me today – light x-training instead: front raises, lateral raises, dead lifts, shoulder presses, bench dips, seated bent-over raises, hammer curls, weighted squats, butt-blasters, various crunches, wall-sits, and planks. First time I've done weighted squats or dead lifts in a while, but neither seems to hurt my injury, which is more groin than hamstring. Happy Monday!

Thanks for the start off Susan, and nice run.....AND there are no slow pokes around here Sorry you guys didn't catch any fish Holly, but sounds like it was a blast. Do you wear your HR monitor when you cycle to see how hard of an effort you are riding at? Nice X training....what are "butt - blasters" Erika, super 17 miler at a very good pace yesterday My keyboard is broke again at home, so I couldn't post my runs over the weekend. So quickly, Sat - 15 mile wave run in very H&H conditions, with 3 miles at 8:00 pace and 2 miles at 7:30 pace. And Sun an easy 7 miles in the same conditions, but shorter distance made it more tolerable - 8:58 ave pace. Question for you guys....every since I got my new running shoes a little while back, I have had more pain than usual in my heels - ankles - calves - Achilles. Has anyone ever bought bad shoes that were the exact some brand and model. Don't get me wrong, I am not injuried - at least yet, but this soreness is bugging me. Well, need to get some paper work done this rainy Monday morning. Have a great day all Tim

6 miles recovery pace. This was definitely an HR Zone 1 day. Avg HR 125. I've never had any shoe problems within the same model year. But going from one year to the next, the shoes can be significantly different in the same model. Kinda like cars. Planned obsolescence. But you'd think with shoes they wouldn't tweak them too much year-to-year since there is a built in obsolescence due to the mileage. A car may last 5 to 10 years. Shoes only last 300 to 500 miles usually. Bill

Susan—seems to me heat waves and fjords would go great together! Did you notice yesterday that Evanflein is so popular she’s getting calls in the middle of her runs from would-be running partners?! (Great run, Erika!) 5.2 miles at 9:00 pace today with a nice 127 AHR/63% . Temps were a bit cooler (67F) and humidity was a much more confortable 78%. It felt like I was in…oh, I don’t know…South Dakota or Alaska or something. I forgot to mention my interesting (at least to me) discovery during yesterday’s run. I headed out a different way than I usually do, taking a road that is usually much too busy to run on. Along the way, about two miles from my house, there’s an historical marker half hidden by bushes. I’ve noticed it driving by but had never stopped to read it. I assumed it was another of many local Civil War sites…”Union soldiers camped here…” sort of thing. When I ran by, I finally got to read the marker and, of all things, it turns out it was the site of a 1920’s health food factory and store! Jethro Kloss, a Seventh Day Adventist, opened it at the same time as he was experimenting with creating soy-based food products—soy milk, tofu, meat substitutes and the like. He was also beginning work on a book later published as, “Back to Eden” about herbs, natural foods, and holistic health that was hugely popular, selling over 4 million copies (and its revised edition is still in print 70 years later). Who knew running could be so educational?

Saucks beat the Yanks 9-2..as Popeye would say "how embarraskin'"...also, if there are any other NASCAR fans in the group, I thought that yesterday's race was the most boring I've ever seen..all those "competition cautions" took everything out of the race...and another thing....oh wait, this is a running forum. As usual, the Sunday long runs were superb...Breger (12 miles & 78 degrees), Perch (16 miles & 75 degrees), Tramps (18 miles...about 80 degrees), Lou (19 miles and I'm sure it was 70+ out there), Larry (10.5 miles...also probably 70+), PDR (18 miles & a 48 mile week), Karin (19.5 miles...so what else is new), busiman (15.5), Evanflein (17 miles with a sore toe), Timbo (15 miles in the heat). You people are my heroes. Ribs: I've seen a couple clips of Jersey Boys on YouTube...I'd love to see it if it ever comes to Roanoke, Greensboro, or Raleigh. dg: Great run...that's absolutely super! Look...I'm sending over my 13 lb. Shi Tzu (Billy Bob) to guard you while you work in your garden. Dave59: Yeah...your cell phone. Since I started using the calendar on it, I don't bother with Outlook anymore...and there's also the NASCAR calendar on the fridge... Holly: I have no idea what any of those exercises are, but I'm exhausted from reading your post. Ran 4.1 miles on the hills this morning...9:18 pace..about 10 seconds/mile faster than my previous post-injury best...definately getting stronger...running harder and walking less. Gas is "down" to $3.60 around here...folks are talking about how cheap that is..gimme a break. DickyG

fjordrunner and a "heat wave" in Sweden is just how hot exactly? Holly S. any sort of ETA on when your injury is likely to be over and done with? perchcreek not a double digit run? Of course there was yesterday's hilly 16 miles . . . biketm nice weekend runs. As to the sneakers, assuming you have the exact same model as before: no manufacturing process has defect rate of zero so it is possible that the sneakers are bad. But, I would bet you need a two or three exercise break and that your body is just trying to tell you that. CNYrunner nice 19 miler yesterday. Have fun at your meeting. Geez you travel as much as Ribs does! breger1 good recovery run after yesterday's 12 miler. Dave59 nice speed work. Tramps lol I have to start looking at more markers when I am running! Nice 18 miler yesterday. SueT48 nice long run. Alas, in CT, last year was the year of spectacular weather all summer and this year seems to be the year of the thunderstorm. It looks like more coming later this week. Yesterday nonoruns nice 8 miler. Continued best wishes in dealing with your parents. stumpy77 a not quite satisfying run still beats a day at the office! tomwhite own their own mountain? DickyG when I find out where that 4.84 mile race is your record is going down! Getting up early to run dumb? What are you crazy! Oh yea, GO YANKEES! Sarge nice run with DW. Spareribs yep, good to have friends like that around. WRFB some days 20 is just not in the cards. Still 19.25 is pretty darn close for "bonking!" Aamos I should tell a group of friends I run with that I am not the only one crazy enough to use the word "just" along with "7 miles." munchkn883 I used to have terrible insomnia so I have some sympathy for a "not able to fall asleep" issue. I hope you at least got a nap in. halllar nice double digit run. mirko good 9 miles and despite some rain. dg. let me add my congratulations to your finishing your longest run ever! pdr good job on the 18 miler and your highest weekly mileage week since March! HandyMom first time ever runs on days back-to-back very nice! Try it again next week! You will find each day's run becomes a lot easier. lyndenrunner I love relays - how about few more details? tselbs hehe, I have done that! Once on a thread from a month prior! Hope your 10K was a good one! busiman 15.5 at a good pace. enkephalin what is this like some pact about not giving up details about the relay? I going to get my editor after you and lydenrunner! evanflein and an impressive long run for you too! Even splits are the name of the game in distance running. Nice workout. mainerunnah nice run, and it sounds like you are having the same thunderstorm de jour weather we are getting down south of you. Me Yesterday I went for an easy 7 with my DW to get in some miles and recover from the race on Saturday. It turns out I finished 2nd in my AG which gets me a few points towards what would be a futile quest to win a t-shirt at the end of the season. They use some official USTAF scoring system and the top three in each AG gets a coveted "Elite Finisher" shirt. My chances of winning one? About the same as my chances of winning the NYC Marathon in November. Today was my first run with my TP since we both got back from our travels. I ran down to the local racket club to meet her we then did 10 together, and then we split up about a mile from my house. I ran home she ran back to the racket club. Altogether we each did about 14. After two weeks of recovery it is getting to be time to get my miles back up so that I am ready for that marathon I hope to win in early November. Ok, in my dreams! But maybe a PR . . . Good runs to everybody today.

Holly, I had a question about the award in the Missoula Marathon RR so I put the details there. I am impressed you, or anybody else here remembered this little bit of trivia! All I can say is you all have far better memories than I have. My DW claims that if I ever get Alzheimer's nobody will know.