Mornin' everyone.

Yesterday’s excellent workouts:
Tramps (snow dusting-free 6 miles)
Dave (3 miles + massage)
Holly ( 6 TM miles)
Catwhoorg (6 mi. in 70F temps)
Leslie (30 min bike with some hard stuff, + core & stretching)
Rochrunner (1 mi.TM, plus 3 mi. trail walk)
TW (30 min Greenway + 30 min. PoolRun [not root canal])
Jlynne (5 sunshiny, blue-sky miles with new compression socks and an ice ball [ouch!])
Tet (9.5 mi, 2-way walk-mute at 26F on the way out, and the return trip at 47F)
Twocat (10 mi on Tuesday with new mittens & lots a’ work yesterday)
BerthaSlayer (6 mi TM time trial; nailed it)
Flats (6.4 TM miles)
Henrun (3 sunny, warm, grateful to be able to do it Riverwalk miles
C-R (5 mi. club group run with a social after)
Mike (6 speedy, Ryan-induced, cold hands miles)
Evanflein (5.1 underdressed, sunset, chilly [-5F] miles)
Steve (3 heated [not the weather] post-work miles)

Tramps, we have a friend who’s 90 year-old father is still swimming competitively.

Leslie, the TENS unit I bought about 3 or so weeks ago is doing great things for my achy hammy. I also have a lacrosse ball that I roll on a lot to break up knots in my butt, and that works too.

Jlynne, sorry, but I hate Pedialyte. How was dinner?

Twocat, Saucony makes great mittens that are lightweight, lined and will keep your hands warm. My hands/fingers get cold very easily, and the Saucony’s are the best I’ve found.

Henry, when DW’s siblings complained about having to go to too many weddings, they were told to be careful, because there would be too many funerals soon enough. I’m sl glad you are healthy and moving.

Have a great trip, Lori!

Best wishes for successful surgery for your dad, Steve.

6.1 mostly relatively moderately speedy RW miles this morning, but it was too much too soon, so I had to back off for the last mile or so. 24F with light clouds and a light NW breeze.

Have a greta Thursday!

Jay

Good morning, all.

guess this morning was a brown bagger.  I was SO tempted to reset the alarm, but it woke up the cat, so I had to get up to feed her.  So since I'm up............  then crossed the street to the lake and hit a patch of black ice and sort of skittered across the sidewalk into the grass.  So, since I was out I kept going.  Then the last mile was clenchy.  and that's all I'll say.  3.1 at high 9's.  Better days to come.

Our new admin assistant is a runner and was asking me about marathons and training plans.  I sent her a link to Hal Higdon's but turns out she's not quite a novice--she's looking for a mathon where she might have a shot at a BQ.  Any suggestions for races in the New England area that might offer a reasonable shot at one?

Steve--hope everything goes well for your dad.

Nice to see the daily get back up to 2 pages.

BerthaSlayer so far as I know there are no prizes for risking your well being by running in slush which might very well cover up ice. I would say the TM is a good call.

flats my DW uses the TM after work because it is dark. If that is why you use it, join the Rosie Ruiz Fan club this fall! The relay includes a night leg and after that you will have a full night time running kit plus lots of experience using it.

Henrun oh 70° I am so jealous. 

tetsujin209 very poetic run and post.

C-R quite true, people who do not run do not realize how social running is.

Mike E I am always amazed at how fast you are.

deez4boyz that is a nice little break! Any travel plans?

SteveP best wishes for your dad.

mrrun I hope the jokes are better than those Disney runs! 

coastwalker glad you feel well enough to get out for so long again. Now be nice to your hamstrings!

stumpy77 good news that you were not hurt slipping on the ice. I liked the Vermont City Marathon, but it is not super flat.

Ran 8 with my training partner. I think she is stating to crack and will want to win races again. She is denying it, but it is the way that she is talking that makes me think it is just a matter of time. A few months I would guess. Today is not as busy as the last two. I do have to go into the city for a workshop late this afternoon, but that gives me most of the day to work on what they really pay me to do: produce research papers. So that is what I will do, work on my papers.

Hi All,

I did pretty much the antithesis of MikeE's run and ran the slowest 3 miles ever last night. I'm a group leader on our local meetup group for the C25K program, so Wednesday's I run with anyone that might show up at the track. so far, no one has showed up, but last night a new runner did, so for 20 min we did the run/walk ratio. Then I ran a bit more at the end. Ended up with 3 miles in about 39 minutes. 

Who's doing the monthly mileage thread now? I forgot who offered to take it over from Carolyn.

While I feel bad for DS, I am feeling a certain level of satisfaction.  

 

I can sympathize with you on that score.

A 20/20 morning: 20F and 20mph. But as Erika can attest, wind chill doesn't mean much when you're dressed for it. I ran with some triathlete pals (nothing stops them!) and it was a group of six for a loop around the lake. Since it was another sunny day (giving us as much sunshine in February already than the whole month of January!), the worst part was the first quarter mile out of the parking lot when the headwind was just hard to run against. But as the path curved around the lake, most of the rest was sheltered or at least not head-on. And as a tailwind, I was actually starting to feel overheated.

So, six miles at a 10-flat average pace. I had to take a couple of walk breaks in the last couple of miles due to a hamstring tightening up for some reason.

Usual 6 at lunch, the promised cool down is late. I will not benefit until tomorrow I guess.

Biking later

Turning phones off ? Fantastic, I will have to look into that for the future.

Of course we probably have 8-10 years before DD will be getting a phone.

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............posting later,

Pickles is pitching my Butt out in the yard to rake for a couple of hours........

 

 

.......just a Quick Question,

did HITLER look like a 5'2'' woman??

 

 

'cause I think I just found his Sister

Hey!  I think we might be brother-in-laws!

One 5 years and the other 4 months

My plan is no phone before High School. Lets hope we can stick to that.