Welcome to 2009 everybody. I know I am a few days late here with that. But as an old friend of mine, who I have not seen in probably 25 years , used to say, "Better a little late than a big behind." jules2 Good luck with tomorrow's race. Also, remember no running on the lake without permission! Hey! Highlighting a word and hitting a formatting button no longer wraps the word in HTML tags! Put it back! nonoruns need cleats! But I see you got in 6 slippery miles anyway. Good job. anachrotech well 2 on the TM seems like 20. perchcreek too bad you did not have a camera with you! Sarge pretty chilly 10K with DW. mainerunnah always helps to run with a group, especially this time of the year. Why is it almost as "warm" up where you are as were I am? Holly S. Be careful what you say! If House were handling this he would first misdiagnose you three times. Each time he would give you some treatment that would then nearly kill you. Then on the fourth attempt you would likely be cured or once or twice a year killed off! I hope your toe proves way less eventful. Nice long run. BTW international long run day is tomorrow I believe so you are a day early. henrun good luck with tomorrow's long run. JVol44 good luck with the come back. I can really sympathize. SLO_HAND Happy Day Early Bday to your DD! Nice discipline on your training routine. wildchild sounds like a great run with your DD! How come you are in CO and it is warmer than here in CT! Not fair! Mariposai not only a great 13 miler yesterday, but great pics too! The cross country skiing looks beautiful! I would be totally jealous but I am not really a big fan of cross country skiing. But I have several friends who are and would love to have been out where you are. Walt.RB well if 2 TM miles are like 20 then 5.3 would be like . . . evryday nice easy six yesterday. Good reason not to take fish oil! Yech! stumpy77 well real life will not be great but what can you do? Have to go produce stuff! Hmm, a 13° run? Maybe the TM is not so bad . . . evanflein happy New Year to the most dedicated cold weather, TM runner I know. So there is a temperature at which you will run indoors! Mariposai nice 13 miler. The homemade chowder sounds great too! I bought some clams last night that I plan to cook tonight. This will be the first time in my life I have ever tried to make fresh clams. Hope I live to report back how it goes! jdmom3 I must admit to having gone back and forth on the glucosamine/chondritin as various studies come out. I think the latest (current) consensus is that it does not do anything a placebo will not. A web page you can check for new reports is Quackwatch.org. They are reasonably good at putting medical research into English. I think they tend to be a bit too deferential to unproven stuff but it is a small matter. Nice speedwork by the way. TammyinGP and fatozzig today we start undecorating. Long tough job! eliz4015 nothing like a snow run. I did one last week. Not a lot of fun actually. Spareribs I have not checked in recently so I hope you are doing well. I want to wish you an especially healthy 2009 after all you have gone through. biketm you too get an extra wishing of health this coming year! Twocat today I ran with my DW and the local jogging club. We went for 4 miles as I have convinced her to run a local 10K race tomorrow. It is the first in a series of races around here called the Boston Buildup. I must admit I am quite depressed about that. Today my leg felt better than it has in some time and my DW said I looked better while running. But we were going very slow. Still, better is better. My fear, not unreasonable, is that I am going to be told by the doctor they cannot find an muscle infection and to knock off running for two months. If that happens then I will have to miss Boston yet again and requalify to boot. Sigh. Even now I am wondering if I should cancel Boston. I cannot really "run" as yet and that means no tempo work or speed work for the foreseeable future. Not the ideal way to train! So what is wrong with my leg . . . my DW watched me do a pickup yesterday and said the problem is my left leg is not being pulled back, I am just dragging it back. She said it look sort of like I was running with some odd peg leg. So off I went to the Internet to see what sort of problem makes it tough to pull your leg back after extending it. No luck. What I did find seemed to come with a host of other symptoms, none of which I appear to have. Any ideas folks?

Hi Everyone, Haven't had time to back-read the dailies but hope to soon. 10 miles for me yesterday doing the Boxing Day run in reverse. After several days off and a few pounds heavier it was slow going and my calf is super tight now. I am still not happy trudging through this snow and wind carp but getting more used to it. 4 miles today, sunny, still below freezing... can't wait to get back to the mild PNW weather. I am still planning on doing that 10 miler in the cold dark forest next weekend. Soon off with the kids to play on the giant snow mountains made from the plows. Holly, glad the toe finally exploded!

hi all, a quick good afternoon. jvol... good luck with completeing your rehab. nice 5. i know the feeling. slohand , good luck with surviving your mileage leap. glad your knee is ok. Nancy, those are so beautiful! thanks. Holly. wow. I can't believe you did that. hope it's still feeling better. btw. i took your advice the other day. thank you. Ribs... thanks! that will be helpful.. and yes, good news that I can do the other things on the same day. I'll replace an off day with this, a good way to up my mileage a little. srl, how's Tobias? Carolyn, Evryday, . nice runs everybody. rest day. washed floors. happy weekend.

Good afternoon folks, {{{Hollys Toe}}} {{{SR's Butt}}} Slept this morning and just got back from work. No run for me as I ran three 10+ milers in the past three days and didn't want to push it....time to rest. Did my 40 for the week. Out for some shopping later at Trader Joe's and some yard work...hopefully will get my LR in tomorrow if we don't get too much rain in the AM.

Twocat sorry to hear of you leg problem...Hope you can figure it out soon... dont' give up yet, there's still time for Boston.

10.13 miles in 2:00:14 for an avg. 11:52 m/m. Sunny, breezy glorious day for running. 43F feels like 38f with 10 mph winds. Splits: 12:20, 12:15, 12:12, 12:04, 11:59, 11:25, 11:26, 10:52, 11:27, 12:37 Gu and water, stop and stretch at 1 hour, gu and water without stopping at 1:45. One potty break at the end of mile 6 (gas station bathroom, door wouldn’t lock, I was scared ). I think if I reduce the coffee consumed the morning of the half I will not have to stop for potty break, I think. My fuel belt holds 16 oz of water (4/4oz bottles)…it was empty at the end. No need to tie anything around my waist, but I was zipping/unzipping. I glance at Mr. garmie once in a while to see miles (so I know when to turn around) or time (for gu), but I rarely try to figure out if I am on pace as I like running by feel. This is just what I wanted to do (well I was thinking a slower pace, but I will take what I get) and I couldn’t be happier. Hi OOOGLLLYYYY….beautiful family Holly, please take care of that toe Mr. Ribs, speedy recovery for your butt Stevie Ray, I do hope that Tobias is doing ok today. Thanks for the great report on your Honolulu marathon. I always enjoy reading your race reports. Good day and good runs everyone

srlopez, we are very arty and abstracted here sometimes! I hope little Tobias isn't in a funk today {{{Spareribs butt cheek}}} {{Holly's wonky toe}} I ran 19 miles this morning along the beach path. You have to give those surfers credit, year round in any kind of weather they are out there...squirming in and out of wet suits just for me!