Sprinkles:  I was looking at Daniel's calculators earlier today (very slow day at work) and he said I could run a 3:35 off my 10K....I literally laughed out loud in here all by myself and then thought, "I must be crazy!"  And I am with you on the sick feeling....I pretty much always feel sick after a tough run or race!

Holy god.  My head just throbs.  I'm going to revisit the 3:39 idea in the fall.  I think maybe first I'll try to aim for sub 3-50.  Marathon is a new beast for me.

Me too...and my first one didn't go well at all!  I am running Monumental in November and thinking just sub 4, and then hoping to pick a spring marathon and go for the BQ (maybe Shamrock, but seems like it is often windy, and well, that's my achilles heel!).  We shall see!

Sprinkles - Hydrate and fuel

Not trying to burst any bubbles here but you young ladies know that they have started to figure out that your BQ times are not as fast as they should be.  There was an article about this in runners world last week.  You may want to move fast towards that BQ if you want to get it at the current time limit.

I will be pushing it for November myself, but I am going to try.  Either way I hope to be there to see you and DH cross the finish line at the Monumental.  I am not 100 percent sure that will be my goal race, but I am about 100 percent sure that I want it to be my goal race.

Indiana...I read that too. to be completely honest, although Boston would rock, I am not obsessed with a BQ. I'm gonna go balls out in May and see how it goes. I doubt I can make it in before the next time shift, but hey,.. Maybe when I hit 35 or 40? I forget the cut offs.

Indiana...I read that too. to be completely honest, although Boston would rock, I am not obsessed with a BQ. I'm gonna go balls out in May and see how it goes. I doubt I can make it in before the next time shift, but hey,.. Maybe when I hit 35 or 40? I forget the cut offs.

I read that article too.  I think the point of the study that the article summarized wasn't that BAA would be lowering times for women, but that the qualifying times for younger women are "easier" as a percentage of world record time than the qualifying times for older women, whereas for men the qualifying times are about 50% slower than WR times at all age groups.  I don't see BAA changing things in the next couple of years; they tightened things recently and staggered registration and that seems to have solved the pressing issue of overloaded registration, and as the article pointed out, the current times mean that the gender balance of the pool of all qualifiers is about 50-50, which seems to be important for the BAA.  At the end of the day, it is the BAA's race and they can do whatever they want with it.

I'd like to qualify, just to say I've done it.  It is one of those generalized running goals that I have, but it isn't something that I'm charging at.  But in my case, it has to be a goal for some time in the indeterminate future, because hitting a 3:05 will be a couple of years of work away, yet.  So I might need the extra five minutes I'll get in 3 years.  (Sprinkles, open is 18-34, then you get 5 additional minutes at both 35 and 40, and then 10 minutes at 45).

Indi - don't swim upstream, it's what Salmon do to die. weather and body say don't then....

sprinkles/dream - good thing it was cold out or your shoes woulda caught on fire With those times. donuts!!!!

me - ran 2 miles with my 9 yr old (first time). he turned for the house and I kept going for 4 more. It was the hardest 6 mile run I have had in years between the 85 degrees, humidity, and 20/25 mph winds. I set out for 9 and turned in at 6 which is uncharacteristic of me. But, I was able to do 2 with my oldest son so it was well worth it.

Woohoo, super race Dreamn!  Very nice time. Congrats!!

Decided to extend my 16 to 18 today.  It felt alright.  67.4 for the week. A new weekly PR.  Now time to cut back a little for my HM next Sunday.