Morning!

Lisa - Thanks for the info & invite to the Inn for Woodstock!  Does look like a fun event.  However, I would pass on the clothing optional part....that would not be a pretty sight ....I wear spandex for a reason....LOL.

Did not get to my  trail/hill run last night.  Had a work meeting that went on & on & on.....ridiculous.  Out now for a few before work.

Carol

Good Morning, we've made it to Hump Day

5.4 miles (tempo run) this am, cool and cloudy.

Lisa - I hope the day goes quickly.  Enjoy your run with RB!  Btw, wish you were up north this weekend, I'll be at my mom's in Traverse and could meet you on the trail.

Hi Carol - ugh, sorry about the work meeting, so frustrating!

Marjorie - yes, it definitely cooled down after the rain yesterday.  Not really good summer weather, but ideal for this morning's run lol

Hi Tessa, Camile, Ginny, Judy, Sue, AnnieSusan, Gatsby, Damaris, everyone I'm missing.....

Judy....what is this famous bread that you have trouble getting?  Glad you found it1

Lisa....hope your recovery run went well.  It is cool here today too, feels like October and not July.

Karen....did you get your 12-miler in?  sorry that you have not been feeling the greatest.

Carol....there will be not "clothes optional" run for me either, although if people saw me naked they would certainly pick up their pace!

I had another spectacular 4 mile run this morning!  I did not walk once and maintained about a 12:00 minute pace and , again, I thought I was going at my slow pace.  I don't know what is going on, but I wish there were a way to know why I have been having these great runs.  It certainly is not normal for me to running this well at the faster pace.  I haven't changed anything in my routine or my eating habits, so it remains a mystery.....

Ginny

Yay Ginny for a nice run at the faster pace!

Add me to the list of NOT doing clothing optional races. I don't have inhibitions about nudity, but I have no illusions either about this 51 year old, bore and breastfed two children, lost nearly 50 pounds in her 40s body. Geese are not the only things that have headed south. If I took my top off at Mardi Gras people would be throwing beads at me to get me to put it back on. Not to mention that why would you want to give the deerflies more of a target? (Ouch. That has raised a really horrible thought about where one would have to apply the deerfly tape.)

Karen, Jeanne (Hay Burner) from runango has asked if there is room at the inn in Hartford and Newport? I don't mind sharing but I don't want to say yes and find that we have exceeded the limit of people in the room(s). I have met Jeanne several times, she organised our Great River relay team in 2008.

Lisa, not sure what happened with the people the law enforcement officers were removing from their cars, but the officer wasn't pleased to have us appear suddenly from out of the darkness. Not that two women of masters age and in running gear including reflective vests are that threatening a demographic. Feeling well recovered?

Woodstock looks fun to me too but I can't justify out of town trips two weekends in a row. Nor can my budget handle it.

Judy, enjoy the bread and the new songs.

Laura, it's cooled down here too. I am actually worried about this weather for the Midwest. These temperatures are not what the crops need, especially since the planting was late after the cold weather well into the spring.

Susan/runnersmom, glad you had a good trip despite the whiney Scouts. Jeez. How old are they, six? I expect whining from people who have not reached double digits, not teenagers! Mission trip? Is he gone for two years?

5.1 this morning with RN. I got permission to install the fitbit one on my work computer so running with it. It is a cute little thing. I'm finding, though, that it interprets changes in elevation as flights of stairs even though I'm not climbing stairs, just running up hills!

I did get my 12 in last night. It stopped raining as the train pulled into the staion, stayed dry for me to make it home, change and run 12, then started raining about 20 minutes after I was done! It was a tough run though. Temps had dropped with the storms but it was so muggy it was hard to breathe. And I was running 1.5 mile intervals at 7:45 pace with 1/2 mile recoveries.

Tessa, yes, absolutely we have room for Hay Burner. The hotel room has two queen beds and the apartment in Newport I think has 3 beds, 1 or 2 of them doubles....I'll have to check. But definitely enough room. There are quite a few runango people in that area it seems.

Back for more later. I had an early meeting up in PA this morning and just got home. Want to run a couple errands while I have the chance. It's beautiful here, so of course this is my last rest day of the marathon training plan. And I'm a little stiff from yesterday. So I'm going to take the rest day - next one scheduled is September 15.

Judy-did you make the bread and sell it?

Carol-clothing is not OPTIONAL for me either.  Nor would I want to run behind someone who thought that it was.

Laura-someday!

Susan-awesome pictures!!  Thanks for sharing!  I will definitely come out and cheer you on.  maybe do a self supported loop with you too if that's okay. Not bandit-ing the race, just running a route that I have many other times with my own fuel and aid.

Ginny-I know!  I have long pants and a sweatshirt on!  In Detroit, in July.  Groan.  I do want summer.  Someone complained about the heat and I intend to track them down.   Just take the good runs!

Marjorie-nice miles!

Tessa-ha on the beads!  I am feeling well recovered.  During the marathon I felt good up until about 4.5 hours and then I was just tired. Makes sense.  I'll maybe do the half at Woodstock but I'm curious to see how strong I feel for Detroit.  Not focusing on fast but on feeling strong, I'm confident that speed will follow and if it doesn't I'd rather feel strong and slow then fatigued and slow.  LOL

Karen-sounds like you're sounding headache free at least.  good job on the run. no rest for a month??  I'll pass on that plan.

Oh.  I did run 4 miles this morning.  Saw a deer.  In a person's backyard.  We don't live in the country.