Been awhile since I posted here, so apologies, but its been that kind of month, with many interruptions and aborted running plans! sigh. 

@red - no close in halves planned at the moment. Getting to hot in central TX and my training hasn't been the greatest. Current target then is to race in the fall. Either the Fort Worth half in Nov

@MattJ - My son likes Delhi but is not so crazy about Hyderabad. He spent 5 years in Singapore and his family loved that. DIL is not crazy about Hyderabad. Hard to describe what they encountered. Areas of growth, with sidewalks and paved streets alongside abject poverty with open sewers, no pavement and paper shacks. The expats they met like it but mostly stay to the western style "enclaves" and have drivers take them between enclaves. We visited Singapore a number of times but have been warned not to plan on visiting Hyderabad. My son is a marathoner and I'm not sure how he will continue to train. It will take awhile for the facility he'll be building has its workout center available. That said expat life can be very rewarding. Son and DIL have many friends from Singapore that they stay in contact with. I hope you negotiate some long weekends to allow you to travel the area as well as East Asia, and Europe. Son and kids enjoy Indian food, as do I, but DIL does not. Hope they get a good cook!

- just saw latest post MattJ - ya'll are certainly welcome back to DFW. Heck they let this ex-yankee into the state back in 2003 and haven't thrown me out yet. But I did have to serve 12 years in Atlanta to get acclimated! LOL

@Larry - sorry to hear about the family medical issues. A tough situation to deal with to say the least. I wish you luck on being able to come back as a contractor after retirement. I moved as part of my retirement and the department I worked for has a director who is not up on telecommuting so not likely to get any work out of them now that I've been gone 6 months. Am also not sure I want any normal work hours anyway. btw: I'm also an Engineer but have had a number of career changes within the engineering field. Starting as an Aeronautical Engineer and migrating thru managerial and technical positions in commercial and defense companies winding up as a software/systems engineer in a logistics data quality organization. Hope the running continues to improve. For me its mental as well as medical health these days! btw: I lived in Enfield (Hamilton Standard) from 72-79 and Orange from 86-89 (GE Corporate Engineering). CT is one of our favorite states. DIL is from CT and Son graduated HS, Uconn (EE) and Yale school of management (on his tab!). We have strong ties to the state.

@Francis/@CM - I have to ditto MT and say that training by time instead of miles is a great idea. It takes a lot of pressure off of wanting to run/jog to fast in order to get the mileage in. I had fewer injuries once I switched from mileage based training to time based training.

My training has sucked of late. To many family interruptions. DD2 has suffered severe hormonally induced side effects (Postpartum Psychosis)  from the early deliver of the twin boys in Feb. Has been hospitalized twice resulting in DW and I doing a lot of twin watching (worth it but worrisome and inhibits planned runs). It looks like they've gotten the meds straight and we might be getting back to a new normal which should allow me to run most mornings as I had been planning. The long run I posted earlier in the month was the last long one I got in. Most runs have been shorter, time and energy constrained events.

Keep on keeping on folks! 

congrats to your son Simon - thats a huge achievement.

hopefully all well with the new DD meds bobev.  such a difficult time, especially I'm sure with twins.  

vinodrinker - that dpes not sound too unusual for you (given the name).  you'd be shocked i'm sure - i'm sat here drinking alcohol free wine.  it is pretty dire, but at least i wont have a hnagover to worry about tomorrow i guess!

great XC race yesterday, and just 2 weeks to the next half now (Christchurch). training is going very well, and i'm feeling pretty good!

Bobev, I hope your daughter sees some improvement soon. She's lucky to have such a good support system to help with those twins.

Just got back from my long run. It went pretty well I though although it was pretty hot and humid in the first half of the run before it clouded over and the wind started to pick up. It's the first run of the year I've carried water and I was glad to have it. I think I'm starting to get the mental shift back about the long run and it's not feeling so daunting. I'm only doing 10K long runs, but my consistency is good this month. 3 weeks to my 10K race and I'm really hoping to improve my PR.  

Vino- I hope your wife is ok. Nice pace for the 7kms, was it on the sand.

Bobev, you are really dedicating a lot of time to your running-fitness-health goals- good job!

Sunday cross training, holiday Monday 8kms with the last one fast.

Vino- I hope your wife is ok. Nice pace for the 7kms, was it on the sand.

Bobev, you are really dedicating a lot of time to your running-fitness-health goals- good job!

Sunday cross training, holiday Monday 8kms with the last one fast.

Simon, no mostly footpath and road, but just a great place to run on a calm so called winters day.  It hasn't started to get cold here. Still knocking around the 17-20oC area so running is still quite warm.

Struggling this week to get decent runs in with work and home taxing at the moment but have a 25km run lined up for Sunday.  Some very wet weather forecast for the next day or so as well wont help :-(

Another best wishes for your wife vino - hope everything is ok. 

 

Last tempo before Chch Half today - 8k in 34.11 so pretty much spot on my hoped for half marathon pace.  Still no idea how I'm supposed to do that for another 13k.

That makes me feel so much better Mandy as I've been thinking the same thing about some of my pace runs! At least it's not just me!  Good luck in ChCh.

Vino - I hope your wife is better!

Frances - Looks like you are making good progress!

I've found a new person to run with! She's heaps faster than me, but her easy run will match a tempo and she's in early marathon training and wants more time on her feet. Yay!

Go Vino   Craig !  I still can't imagine running that far.