Look at that all I had to do was catch a 10 hour plane flight to Israel and now I get to start the daily for the first time ever since joining CR and now RA! Today was a 6.26 mile recovery run. Well sort of. It is so nice here, warm and dry that after getting started I decided to pick up the pace a bit so it was a bit of a fast "recovery" run. Felt soooo good though. I still hope to catch up with yesterday's thread later on today. A pipe dream I suspect given my schedule today but we will see. Oh yes, for all those thinking wow that must be great to be able to travel overseas on business let me tell you just how exciting it has been! The conference hotel is really nice. The taxi to the conference site was also really interesting. Then if you have not been in a conference center ... well let me tell you they are all just about the SAME! Yep, you get to see the same thing pretty much everywhere. Exciting no? Then at day's end you get to go back to the conference hotel and see it again! All while jet lagged to the point of collapse. No you have no idea what kind of excitement you are missing! I can hardly wait to get home . . . Good runs everybody. Enjoy the day.

Wow... Twocat starts a daily and Cashmason is the second poster...! The only thing more amazing is to have an Alaskan go third! Hi Twocat! Enjoy your trip! DH and I used to travel overseas a lot when he worked for a company that offered reward trips. My favorites were running trails in New Zealand, and through the Brandenburg Gate (and closeby parks, etc) in Berlin... Hi Cash!! Got in some yard work cross training tonight (oops, Monday night). Trimmed willows and wild roses ("prickle bushes") around the perimeter and cleared a trail so DS2 and his friend could push the wheelbarrow full of leaves and birch branches out to the powerline. I'm tired of having piles of leaves and grass pile up on the lawn edges... it's just not warm enough here for it to compost real well. We do still have a red ant problem in the old wood pile... DH got the rototiller going and tilled the garden, and DS2 mowed the entire front lawn and picked up all the old dead leaves and birch branches. Cool!!! Our birch is in full swing with the pollen shed, and we're all fighting off allergy symptoms. DS2 is on ClaritinD, I'm on Nasocort and Xyzal, DH is doing fine thanks to his 5 years of allergy shots done a couple years ago, and DS1 is fine (did I mention this kid is perfect??). So, we're all battling the seasonal birch allergies, but modern meds make it much better. I'm heading for bed soon.. (11:08 now) and will try to get up early to run tomorrow a.m.... Vendor dinner tomorrow so no run after work.

Wow Perch! Those look like killer "hills". What some people won't do to start the thread . . . . good job TwoCat!! Out for 4 miles this morning with Brinkley. Neighbor's house was looking pretty dark, so she either forgot to set her alarm, or just decided not to get up. 9:35 avg. pace - 164 avg. HR. Garmin said my High HR was 197, but I find that very hard to believe today!! Haven't had much time to read lately - hope that everyone is doing well. Is today the day that Ribs picks up his new puppy? Happy 2's-day! ~Mary

Good morning, Nice start Twocat! I used to do a great deal of international travel and the running helped break up the sameness of the generic conference feeling---hermetically sealed in a hotel banquet room with no windows and then busting out into the French countryside or all around Edinburgh or an up close view of Table Mountain....I hope you can get out for a good run. Erika---serious yard work there. I need to do the same and it looks like I finally have a good window of time this weekend to get the garden in shape. Mr. CNYrunner has been nurturing acorns we gathered on various hikes last year and we'll plant our 20 new little oaklings this weekend. Of course I need my granny's genes if I want to see them as real trees. Nice hills Perch. Tim....being sick didn't sap all your speed. Isn't 10 miles just perfect. My happy distance. Good running Mary---recovering well from the 25k. Yeesh, I haven't even gone running yet and I am chatty. I am actually running this evening since I'll incorporate a local 5k into my workout. There's a Tuesday night 5k series (from April to October at 6:30 PM) just 3.5 miles from my house. The races are a part of the Sugarloaf Mountain Athletic Club offerings and the real speedsters as well as the long time club leaders are there most weeks. The course starts in the Community Gardens and includes a portion of the course I raced on in college---classic cross country-- trails, woods, over ditches and up a short but intensely steep hill. Good forced speed in the midst of a longish run. Okay, today I HAVE to get more work done. Wildness yesterday. CNYrunner

Good morning, all! Yeah Twocat - nice kickoff this morning! Tim - unsolicited hugs are what family is all about. So glad you're part of the masters running family. You do a tough run and then clean your bathroom - and you think I need medication???? nono - I second Cash's opinion. 176 isn't bad considering the ambient temp - 90 degrees is seriously bad. Mary - any updated puppy pics? Wind was blowing seriously this morning, and I just couldn't make myself go outside (I hate the wind). So 7 easy miles on the treadmill (yes, Amy, 7 miles can be easy on the treadmill ;-). Yoga scheduled for my lunch hour -can hardly wait for the corpse pose. My right achilles has been twinging and telling me I haven't been regular enough with the yoga lately. Good runs to all!

5 mi this morning in a fairly chilly FL. Felt great to be out. WRFB -- I like your AHA site much better! Thanks for the feedback on the 176 hr -- I've never paid much attention to it before, and it just seems high. I didn't feel bad, but then I'm not 20 anymore ('cept in my head!). Good runs to all today!

Good Morning, I had to finish yesterday’s thread before posting. Enk – why do you need an 8-week plan for a fall marathon? You have a lot more weeks than that until fall. PJ – that is a wonderful story about your foster daughter. You should be proud of the fact that you to have helped her grow into that fine young woman. Henrun – a bike tour sounds like so much fun, although it might be tough on one’s backside. How many miles per day did you ride? Perch – yikes! Tough hills! CNYrunner – I hope you can run slow enough for me on Thursday...I think all my fast-twitch fibers may be dead or hibernating.... 8 mile run for me today in 44 degrees, with miles 3-6 as a “tempo sandwich” – 1 mile MP, 1 mile tempo, 1 mile MP (8:44, 8:15, 8:45). Ave. pace for the run was 9:25. So much left to unpack, but today’s forecast of a sunny 72 begs for an after-dinner bike ride with the kids.

Mary-Very nice puppies... nono-When I ran my 10K,my HR got up to 205 8 easy miles this morning,ran with "The Gazelle" for the middle 3 miles,she has such a beautiful stride... Have a good one...