Since coastwalker picked the door number 3 option of not including my treadmill run from yesterday in the roundup I figured I would take advantage of the dateline and start the daily before he (or you or anyone else that typically posts in the daily) was living through Friday. I did 7 miles on the TM this morning. As mrrun suggested, the pollution levels are so high they are encouraging people to spend as little time outside as possible.

I have been pretty tied up at a conference here in Beijing. I have been reading the daily, but my internet service is limited and posting with my cell is doubly difficult here. I am doing this post on my laptop before the morning sessions start. Today I head home as tetsujin209 noted. I leave at 5:00pm today (Friday) and arrive at 5:40pm on Friday.  With a bit of hustle I could get in two runs for the day!

deez4boyz I sure hope things work out for your DS. You are such a wonderful person, there is no justice in your going through this.

stumpy77 your DW and mine could have a stress out party! Mine is terrific at it too.  Boy do I wish it were otherwise.

Holly S. congratulations to your DD!

tetsujin209 your post made me think of a variant of Green Eggs and Ham.  I will not run in minus ten. I will not run in plus 110. I will not run here or there. I will not run anywhere!

Mornin' Twocat, Metalmancpa and everyone still to come online.

I sure can't touch these two for early/late/far away postings! I hope Metalman slept well, and for more than 5 hours.

Thursday’s workouts:
Twocat (7 TM miles, wherever he is/was, and whatever day he is on)
RunnerKSA (2.1 tired TM morning miles + 3 post work TM miles)
Tramps (4.5 miles)
Stumpy (3.1 lake loop miles in 23° temps)
Jlynne (30 TM minutes at the Y + 1 hr on the elliptical + weights)
Quickadder (5AM run with DD in mid-40s temps - 7.8 miles at 10:14 pace)
Holly (4.5 TM miles)
Tomwhite (40 min X-bike)
C-R (early run in 45° temps)
Wildchild (3 round-the-block miles in new snow and screw shoes)
Surly Bill (20K at 8:02 pace on the Bay trail in mid 60s temps)
Falconfixer (7 post-work miles at 8:15 pace)
Deeze (5.1 miles with the morning crew)
Evanflein (5.2 miles in colder/better footing)

My first and last comment on health insurance is that it has been broken since long before the ACA, and the insurance companies are as much (if not more) to blame as the providers, and Congress hasn't and has no idea about how to fix it. DW and I are on Medicare, so it is a easier/cheaper - until it comes to shoe shopping... OK - done.

Fatozig, I hope your foot issue is short-term, and I’m very glad that you are backing off till you figure it out.

I got out at J o'clock for 6.2 RW miles in refreshing 12° temps, with just a sliver of the moon still rising in the east. I continued the technique improvements that I started working on yesterday, and felt very fluid this morning. I have to keep working on this stuff till I can get it into my muscle and mental (there's the problem) memory.

Have a greta Friday!

Jay

I got out at J o'clock for 6.2 RW miles in refreshing 12° temps, with just a sliver of the moon still rising in the east. I continued the technique improvements that I started working on yesterday, and felt very fluid this morning. I have to keep working on this stuff till I can get it into my muscle and mental (there's the problem) memory.

 

Have a greta Friday!

 

Jay

Somehow, fluid and 12° do not seem to go together.

I managed to get my clock an hour fast yet again.  Not sure how--either I'm losing it or someone in the house is screwing with me.  Anyway, by the time I realized I was up at running time, it was too late to.  Oh well, got to work early agian.

WaWa is my happy place!  None in Tennessee, but I'm in PA and Florida often enough to get my fix.  I asked my son for a WaWa truck pez dispenser for Christmas, but not sure he will show up with it.

3.2 miles outside in the cold gloom, but it was good to be out in the fresh air.  Of course, if I so desire, I can have fresh air for my treadmill runs.  All I have to do is open the windows.   Not quite the same, somehow.     Taylor Swift on the iPod.

1.6 miles after work on the treadmill.  4.8 for the day.

Yesterday's legal work involved someone who eats dogs.  That's all I can say about that, except both my boss and I realized that whenever we think we've heard it all, we haven't......

Hello folks. I have been distracted by a big software update I have to do this weekend so I haven't been around. My unconscious mind is so focused on the task that I am not to be trusted on any other activity. I am almost walking into walls around home.

But now I have almost all the prep work done and there isn't anything left to do but worry about everything that can go wrong. So I have time to check in here.

I have been squeezing in a few miles most days in my effort to get to 100 miles this month.  This morning was 4 miles in the park.

I think I might be needing one of those balaclava's for my early morning Sunday trail run. I think the plan is 13 or 14 mile at a place called Collings Mountain. Very near where leg 1 of the Wild Rogue Relay started for those in my van 1. 

just a very short 2.5 miles at the track last night. It was so bitterly cold - by my standards. The fog never lifted out of here yesterday, so despite being 50 and sunny in Medford, it was only 30 in Grants Pass, but that fog made it feel much colder. 

and no run tonight. Going to my bosses Hannukah party - which means he's serving up latke's, there'll be lotsa music (he's also a musician and has mostly musician friends that hang at his place) and of course, lotsa drinking at his parties too. 

Cheers!

^^^^ yeah, but not so much in middle Tennessee.  It's legal in Tennessee, though.  In 6 states it is not, as I now know.

metalmancpa's got the Right Idea,

I've run with a balaclava for many years, and the air gets about 20-degrees warmer

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..bitter cold today........ankle was niggly so I moved it inside

20-min HeavyHands

and

40-min on x-bike with resistance

.............good Running to ya.......