So Tim is pinging off the walls and using hotdogs as an ice pack! Just as I had imagined! I was feeling very much recovered from my HM on Saturday, which was more like 8 miles at HM pace followed by 5 miles of LR pace than 13.1 miles at HM pace. And it has been 3 days inbetween. Soreness in legs was gone and I felt a bit energetic this morning so I went to my litte pond to do an interval workout. When I got there I noticed my Garmin was completely dead! I was so much at a loss! What do I do? I thought I'd just have to run around the neighbourhood and guesstimate it to be 8 miles. Somehow I didn't like the idea of not knowing how far I had run. Scrap that idea. And I really wanted to do some speedwork. So I decided to do a 20 min jog warm-up, then 5 x loops of the pond (which is less than a mile, around 0.8 mile?, but I really don't know) with 2 minute walk intervals. Luckily I had my timex ironman watch with me. Then 26 min c/d. Just during the warmup I quickly discovered that running for time, and not distance was incredibly liberating! I went completely "by feel", as I didn't have that little pace device on my wrist telling me how much I suck. Here are my loop splits: 7:50 7:28 7:23 7:12 7:12 So nice eh? Here is the amazing part....other than the first loop, which I knew I was running a little slow, and I believe it takes time for the muscles to crank up their enyzmatic machinery, all of the others I felt like I was running slower than the one before it, when in fact I was running faster!! I was going to quit doing laps once my time slipped over 7:30 again, but my watch BLANKED out after the last one. Luckily I had memorized the splits. I figured it was a sign to stop. I could have easily done one or two more. Running by feel ROCKS! 8 miles total, more or less.

...so I went to my litte pond to do an interval workout

I think that having the legs to do intervals over a pond also rocks. 'Cause the ponds here ain't frozen. That's some speed.

Hey Amy, you forgot one other option.............shirtless . Surely I won't be the only one will I Tim

SInce you're asking......I've often pondered this. As a breat cancer survivor, I think I could get away with it and not even break any kind of indecent exposure law (my surgeon did a greta job!) After all, I don't even have nipples, let alone boobs! List is on the way, hope it helps! 6 easy for me in 52:33, about an 8:42 pace .........AND 75 degrees!! grins, A ps maine...really? It was that cold in Portland? I thought it was warmer. Good thing I asked, I think I might be contemplating too much stuff. Erika, send your email address and I'll send you the list too.

Aamos.... erika dot vanflein at alaska dot edu Thanks!

Yep, it was chilly in Maine today! I wimped out and went to the Y. Since I've had two longer runs the last couple of days, I stuck to 3.2 miles on the treadmill, and then 20 minutes of pool running. Only 9.2 miles to go for another 100-mile month. Gosh, it's nice to be healthy!!

Climbing the walls here -- so did a half hour of yoga. I used to practice regularly -- can't remember the last time I actually did a session. To say I'm out-of-practice would be putting it mildly. Now that I've cut my number of running days, I guess I'll be trying to fit more of this in...

Good runs out there today. I got in a nice easy 6 miler this evening. The calendar says fall, but the temperature says spring, here in beautiful OK. About 74 F during the run.

74!! I think I want to move to Oklahoma!! It was very chilly and windy here in Mass. - no run for me today - just sleep after working on-call last night and dealing with family issues before coming back in here for another 12 hours.............so cool tho - last night i was here for less than 5 hours and I actually saw 5 babies born!! well - kind of cheated because I was the 2nd nurse in the delivery room for 2 patients each having twin girls!! i'll take it!! what a great night!! you guys are going to rock NYC!!