Great weather here this morning.

10.17 miles of hills @ 8:53 pace. Our community Dam project is nearly completed and I ran across the dirt this morning ...the pavement isn't finished yet. This was the first time in months that I've been able to go across it...Things are getting back to normal. 

Good luck to all the racers this weekend and good running everyone.

Morning People,

Nice Runs.....Good Luck Tall !

A very sucky run fro me last night. Planned on a 20 min tempo.....I took off for my warm up and just felt like I had bricks on my feet and huffin and puffin like I was on the final yd's of a 5k. I know that hammering the bike for 24 hard @ss miles the night before (with 9 miles of running that morning) had nothing to do with it.....at 2.3 miles I stopped, looked at the route in front of me and debated with myself.

I won......I took off...a 7:11 pace.....lasted 10 mins......overall I trudged thru 8 miles of one of the most crappy runs I ever had.......just because.....it was for the mental game. The body had nothing to gain. I just had to show who's who when it came to the boss.

This moring a very nice recovery run. 3.8 miles at a crusie pace of 8:27.........nice.

Wishing everyone a GREAT Memorial day weekend. To those fallin in our defense......a moment of silence.

Busiman, Tall & Bill,

Best wishes for fantastic races this weekend!

Up at 5:30 to get Renee and I out before the crowds and do our 2 little recovery-paced miles. Easy enough, then woke the fam, and headed off island  by 7 a.m. for a quick trip to Lowes & Walmart.  We had breakfast at a bagel and coffee shop.  Got back, and cleaned the home theater carpet.    All done by 9:59 a.m. That's my kind of morning.

Now to open my to-do list for today!  I sure hope we get a little beach time in today, 'cause the rest of the weekend doesn't look so good.

Good luck to Tall and Busiman.  Frank it's good you are getting that nap.  You had me concerned you were coming down with something the other day and that is not good news.  But you are a tough one and should have a good day.

Just when I thought my back felt a bit better, I yawned in the middle of the night and you know how when you yawn your back muscles all flex?  It was just enought to give me a jabbing pain and send me back to where I was on Thursday.  So another rest day for me.  I had hoped to do 5 today for a 40 mile week, but will settle for 35.  Spareribs

13th day in a row of running for me.  I'm enjoying it.  This morning was just 3.0 miles at 11:07 pace.  Over 25 miles for the week - first time in a few months.

Good luck to those of you racing this weekened!  I may do a 5k on Monday with a friend, more for the charity than the racing aspect.  It's in Scarborough, Maine, close to the water and fairly flat. 

Last day of high school soccer today. At yesterday's game, DS1 got a goal! Not a usual thing for a center-defense player... It was pretty exciting. He said he just saw the opportunity, didn't have a clear pass to anyone on his team (not a good thing) and was able to follow the ball all the way up. Coach said, "whatever works" and they won 8 to 0. Poor team from the airforce base. They really didn't stand a chance. Today is final game against cross town rival. We'd love to win, but would be delighted with a tie, or at least not too wide a spread.

Got a text from Bill this morning. 3:58 final time, which he's happy with but not the BQ he'd been hoping for. Sort of ran out of gas after 18 miles or so. I'll let him tell the full story...

Yard and garden work on tap for today. Probably won't get anything planted till next weekend though.