The snow came as predicted this morning, but at present it has let up, with about 6 inches so far. I planned today as a rest day when I heard the forecast. Sure doesn't look like May 1 out there. I did get out for a lovely trail run after work yesterday - as seemom said, it was 80 in town, so I didn't run at lunch. After work, I headed up the mountains toward home and stopped at Golden Gate Canyon State Park. I don't have a park pass yet this year, but the ranger office was closed when I got there. The ranger was just leaving, and said I was free to run without the pass. It was 60 degrees and breezy - just perfect! There was a little bit of old snow in the woods, and I saw my first pasque flowers of the season. It's a very hilly rugged trail, some in the woods and some traversing an open hillside. I'm psyched to start trail running again for the year - well, at least once this new snow has melted. I'm fortunate to have this beautiful mountain park in my backyard. Quite literally - my property borders the park! Teresa, congrats on the 10 miles - double digits! Woo hoo! Happy May!

A couple of nice runs......yesterday was a 3.27 and then today is one at 5.18. I am happy with them. I would love to be there to watch enke with her race this weekend. That is going to be neat. I was wondering just how much running experience was in this group. There are approximately 289 people who are "members" in this daily thread. Of those, 131 are using the training log to record what they are doing for runs. Realizing that some have only started doing so in the last year and that many of you have been running for years, these figures get somewhat distorted. In any regards, I took the "total miles" of everyone who is recording their miles and added them up. The total for miles is 232,377 miles. Some people who I KNOW have a few miles on their sneakers more than what is recorded would definitely bring this total up considerably if we knew what they had run in their lifetime. For instance, Rochrunner was at 159 miles......Soundrunner was at 845 miles.....Lyndenrunner was at 26 miles.....McSolar was at 207 miles....PJH was at 10 miles....CNYRunner was at 758 miles.......anyway......you get the idea. What I was hoping to do when I started out was see if we had history for 1 million miles run as a group. I am almost sure it is there, but we don't have record of it. I will keep monitoring this and when we get there, I will let you know. It probably won't be this weekend or next. By the way, the top three total miles lifetime recorded is Hermosaboy with 9162 miles......Charley Gross with 8329 miles.......and ultrachick with 7941 miles

maybe odor eaters, too?

Good luck, enk! You and I have the same thermostat, I'm afraid. I can relate! I'm glad it gets light very early in the morning here, because I think I should run at the crack of dawn come July. It's my only hope.

Not enough time to go home from school and be back in time for yet another concert, so I went running at Valley Forge park this afternoon. I learned two things: (1) I'm an idiot for not doing this sooner - it's a 10 minute drive from my school and (2) Washington and his men must have marched, not only in the snow, but UPHILL BOTH DIRECTIONS everywhere they went. I was supposed to do 5 miles with some speedwork in the middle. I'm calling it 5 miles of HILLS, HILLS, and more HILLS. The middle mile was marginally the fastest, though, so maybe it was a weird sort of tempo run? I'm psyched to do it again, though. It was a little creepy at first because I got there around 3:15 and there were hardly any other people around. By the time I left, though, more after-work runners, walkers, and cyclists were out doing their thing. I may make this a weekly or twice weekly run until school is out. (In 35 days; yep, I'm still counting.) And it's definitely where I'm going to do my long runs in the fall. I did an out and back trek twice to make the 5 miles, and I barely covered even a small part of the park. Off for some heavy-duty kid-wrangling. Happy Almost-Friday, all. Eliz

Eliz, I LOVE Valley Forge Park! I used to live in Ardmore, and my family used to go there for picnics. I also rode my bike there with my friends a few times, and yep, I remember the hills!

4.5 on tired and sore legs. Day off tomorrow just in time. Not sure whats going on with me but I am so hungry all the time. My DW left me alone tonight and I fried potatoes with sausage and onions! I can't remember the last time I had fried potatoes. Better open the windows and air out the house before she gets home. Hope everyone has or had good runs Larry

3.4 miles with the anchor who went with us to NYC!