Slow and sluggish 3.25 mile loop this morning. I really wasn't feeling it this morning. Mentally, I wanted it, but physically, I just couldn't get much going.

QOTD: How much of your running is done in the dark?

This question popped in my head the other day because I remember hearing people ask others "Have you done much night running?" Specifically, I hear this question at 100 mile events, and it is always asked to people who are running their first 100 mile event. The vast majority of my running is done with a headlamp, usually early morning rather than later in the evening. Hence, my mantra is always, "Just keep going until the sun goes down, and you will be fine."

Another 3 last night...in the dark.

Like AT said, great weather patterns we are having.  65 and sunny one day, 1-2 inches of snow today.  Welcome to winter - just in time for day light savings and spring in 2 weeks.

So DW has been telling me a story about this "stalker" she has.  It's been a bit of a joke.  He is not a real stalker - at least not yet.  DW works at a dental office.  This guy is a patient and took a liking to her.  DW is very friendly with everyone and of course I am partial in saying she is beautiful, but she is.  Every time he is in the office, he asks where DW is.  (btw - she used to work the front desk/reception area but now works in billing back in an office).  This guy was in on Sat (DW was not working) with his wife for her appt.  He asked about her whereabouts to the front desk once his wife was back in her appt..  The other girls in the office also joke about him being her stalker so they made sure she knew he was asking about her Sat.  Well yesterday DW is at the grocery store with all three kids and who does she see in the parking lot? Yup, with his wife and young child.  Apparently he tried to hug her as one does when they see a long lost friend.  He was asking about her hours and why he didn't se her on Saturday.  I've told her she needs to be clear that he is making her feel uncomfortable - is she doesn't say something he will just keep pressing.  The funny thing in all this is he is 5'3" or something close to that.  DW is 5'9" and often wears shoes that make her close to 6'. I am just hoping to be in the office one of these days when he shows up. 

QOTD: most of my runs are in the dark.  But most are also road running.  When I do make it to a trail, it is daylight.  I don't do well on tech trails in the dark.

Have a great weekend!

Morning folks. Unfortunately, the PA weather did not fully make it to MD/DC. We're just getting a cold rain and it's not staying long, which is too bad since we are in a drought.  Running-wise, I'm taking a rest day and heading to the gym for a strength class. I hate these classes, but they challenge me in ways that I typically avoid, so it's needed and good.

qotd: Usually in the early winter, but on the roads not trails.

Snowing today, so probably some snowy miles later and maybe the gym at lunch for weights. Last night, 8 miles with the Lady on the flat Perkiomen trail, out/back style. Last of the mild days for awhile according to the forecast.  It's a busy place on a mild evening night, thus lots of leash time for the Lady. I have not run this path in years. In my faster days I used to knock out some pretty spiffy runs here while training for marathons. Nice views of the Perkiomen Creek in many places in the section I ran, but mind numbing flatness.

QOTD: Very little of my training is done in the dark. I don't mind it,  but with most trail heads around here having dawn to dusk signs posted it tends to make me feel like a law breaker. No sidewalks around here or much lighting at all so road running at night is a bit hazardous if I leave my neighborhood. I've done enough night running to be comfortable doing it when needed.

 

Since you both are phonetically Jamie's (she's Jaime right?), go to work when the guy is on schedule and when he asks for Jaime, you can come out. Problem solved.

 

Seriously, we have a few guys who "hang around the desk".  If girls are uncomfortable in anyway, I talk to the patient. Your wife should let the dentist handle it and make him aware he is crossing the work / patient line. Once I talk to them it never happens again.

I like the way you think! I would hover over him ...just a bit.

But seriously, yes I truly believes she needs to say something to him about it making her comfortable AND tell her boss.  She doesn't like confrontation so I believe this is why she continues to be so friendly.

All she has to do is give me his contact info and I can make this go away real quick.  Of course she would have to violate HIPPA laws to do so which would get her fired and possible legal charges and the other result would likely see me in jail.  So there's that...

17 degrees and about 6" of new snow greeted me for yesterday's 5-ish mile run- Spring is in the air! 

strength train this evening; date night tonight- local restaurant is having a catfish fry replete with coleslaw, hush puppies and potatoes

qotd: more out of necessity- usually about a month and a half December and January (evening) and then again in July and August (early morning) to beat the heat. I don't mind it so much, but if I wasn't working I'd run a little earlier in the Winter and a little later in the Summer- probably like NH does! 

Yeah we eat fish/seafood most Fridays (probably 80-90% of the time); old Irish Catholic habits die hard