Good Morning. Here is a long weekend staring us in the face. Actually it looks like a very pretty face staring back. Holiday weekends always are exciting and show so much promise. I trust you have plenty of nice plans ahead for you. I am still in the midst of my baseball tournament with three more games today. These are great but you do get weary after a while. I found myself driving up and down the highway too often to my liking. Anyway, I will focus on the positive. It really is a great chance to enjoy the nice weather and watch some quality baseball. Tall......good luck on the racing. Hopefully you are feeling better by now. Twocat.......congratulations on the accomplishment. Savor the experience and don't be afraid to do something special for yourself with some of the money. Evanflein......So the hotel never called back but you FOUND your Garmin huh?......Hmmmm. I might be tempted to call them again and offer a $500 reward to them if they return the Garmin. You know they won't find it but the thoughts of them scrambling now to find it will at least give you a smile. I couldn't get a run in yesterday, but did manage a nice walk. Today shows more promise to work in a run between games. Good luck to anyone racing over the weekend. Enjoy the time with family and friends (for those with this on the agenda). Make sure to RUN....and check back in here every so often. Joey

Memorial Day weekend here in the States and the racing season is starting in full swing in most areas of the country. Best of luck to all these MANY racers! 5/24 halllar - Bayshore Marathon. Traverse City Michigan 5/24 mrbill - Bayshore Marathon, Traverse City MI 5/26 marathon derrick - Bayshore marathon 5/24 Mariposai - Mazama Fun trail run, WA 5/25 fatozzig - Forest Park Trail Run 50k, Portland, OR 5/25 Soundrunner - Forest Park 50k, Portland OR 5/25 Tallrunner - Ottawa Marathon (A) 5/25 charleygross - Vermont City Marathon 5/25 busiman - Vermont City Marathon, Burlington VT 5/25 SueT48 - Vermont City Keybank Marathon, Burlington, VT 5/25 mainerunnah - Boston's Run to Remember 5 Miler, Boston MA 5/25 deez4boyz - Boston's Run to Remember 5 miler, Boston MA 5/25 CNYrunner - Buffalo Half-Marathon, Buffalo NY 5/25 Jlynne - Christie's 4 miler 5/26 Jim24315 - Marin Memorial Day 10k - Kentfield CA 5/26 fussyrunner - Cotton Row 10K, Huntsville, Al 5/26 hermosaboy - Brian Kraft Memorial 5k Lake Nokomis 5/26 huskydon - Laguna Hills Memorial Half Marathon, Laguna Hills CA 5/26 Mtnchk1 - Bolder Boulder 10K, Boulder CO For me it was a 6 mile GA run this morning in 54 minutes. I couldn't get myself to run easy (or easier). A friend/co-worker of mine told me yesterday that he's running his 1st full marathon in a couple of weeks - it's a rails and trails sort of thing somewhere out west - gotta go look it up. I had no idea he was training for anything though I knew he was a runner. But he told me his longest run has been 15 miles. He said he "didn't want to get injured running 20". I told him politely and carefully to go very easy early on and take some short walk breaks. He's a new runner who has some talent - he ran a 1:57 half marathon a few months ago - but I'm worried about how he'll end up. Bil

from Twocat:

In nonrunning news some work of mine won a very prestigious prize.

I don’t have to know the exact nature of the award to say a big CONGRATULATIONS!!! I always knew you were one of the smart guys. {{{{Tall}}}} Seemomgo – I was hoping the fall, 2009 meet-up wouldn’t be quite as challenging as Denver. You seem to have lots of cold weather (I hate to be cold), and your altitude would be tough on this sea-level-dweller. No run for me today – light x-training instead: superman lifts, front raises, push-ups, leg lifts w/ankle weights, face-up and face-down, reverse flies, various crunches and oblique v-ups. Good luck to the weekend racers!

Tall, I'm pulling for ya! Eliz, drive safe now coming down this way. Now if you were coming in earlier, I'd say "Let's go running!" But, by Noon I hope to be putting a second coat of stain on my back deck and then spending some time over at the new house figuring out the punch list so the builder and I can call the construction complete. Did 3 1/4 this morning -- planned on a bit more, but even going out at 6:30 I was getting fumed to death by cars. And, Renee and I can no longer run on the boardwalk now that it is "season." A bad day or two will convince me I need to set the alarm even earlier, and motivate me to get out of bed. I have a feeling I'm going to be a 5 a.m. er or an 11 p.m. er this summer, but regardless, I will achieve my goal of getting in the miles even if the shoobies tourists are here and driving their cars too much.

Morning all, 10.17 miles of hills @ 9:06 pace, wonderful morning, great run today but I had a hard time getting out of bed...glad I did. Great runs to everyone today!

Morning Folks, 3 blustery park miles in the wind last night - didn't know we were having tornados! now catching up on the news.....back out shortly C

Good morning, all! Vista - hope you get that run in between games! Tall - glad to hear you are feeling better -take care of yourself! Mary - best of luck with the 5K - hope you get that age group win! TomS - hope your daughter enjoys her first marathon! Interesting that most of you indicated that the crib was your first memory. Mine also, but not a pleasant memory. I remember being awakened in the middle of the night. I was a bedwetter, and my Dad was standing over my crib threatening to hook up an electric cord to the bed so I would be shocked when I had an accident. They wondered why I began stuttering as a child...... A blessed rest day for me -actually got to sleep until 6:15. No workouts planned at all for today. Good luck to all the weekend racers. Everyone have a wonderful holiday!

From my garden to you. Happy Memorial day weekend to my American friends.