Fran - Sorry, I forgot to welcome you!!!  Jump on in anytime...we are helpful/friendly - tho a bit enabling when it comes to crazy running things!

Carol

Argh! I made the mistake of looking at the results of this morning's race. I would have easily gotten third overall, could possibly have gotten second. I'll be honest, I signed up because I love the ten mile distance, but also because I looked at the last two year's results and figured I had a really good shot at winning my AG, and possibly overall masters. I run faster than the winner of the 45-49 AG in training runs. Oh well, it's all about who shows up, and I didn't.

And while I'm bitching, can I complain a little about DH? Lately, everything about him is "you run too much". Seriously, I run and work full time and clean the house and cook dinner and do laundry and do everything else. He works and rides his bike. My weekday runs are never more than an hour and a half, his rides are often 2 hours, not to mention his group rides when he sometimes doesn't get home until 8-9 p.m. And I run too much? He of course blames my getting sick on racing and traveling, although he's had some sinus thing for the last several days. But I "always" get sick when I travel for running, apparently, like that time last year when I got a bad cold after some race and he caught it and it wrecked his last two races of the summer. I pointed out that that was after a work trip, because I was better by North Country, which was the weekend before his last two races, and when he was coming down with the cold. Then I told him I was probably not going to run today, even though this is my highest mileage/ last big week before tapering, because of last night and I didn't think 8 miles one way or the other would wreck my marathon. He agreed. Then he tried to get me to ride my bike with him this afternoon. So apparently, all running is bad but all cycling is good. I love the guy, but I can pretty much guarantee that if he dies before me, I am not going to get married again.

Happy Saturday!  Back from 15.6 run with RC and DH.  Beautiful day for running... 50s and sunny, ocean was sparking... and I have to keep reminding myself of all the upsides of living here as I'm dealing with refinancing our eye-wateringly large mortgage that is the price of living in Northern California.

Lisa, sorry your sciatic nerve is acting up.  Has that happened to you before?  Would deep tissue massage help?  That helped me when I had piriformis problems a few years ago.  I vaguely recall the sciatic nerve was involved in my issue too, but might not be the same thing.

Ginny, I would have bailed on that race too.  Discretion is the better part of valor or something like that.

Cindy, hope your 7 went well.

Marjorie, autocorrect can have some funny results.  Last weekend in St. Louis a bunch of us were staying at the Drury Hotel and iPad kept changing it to the "curry hotel".

JulieD, sounds like spring might actually be around the corner?  Fingers crossed.

Hey Carol, have fun at your half tomorrow!  That's the best kind of spontaneous.

LC, you doing the same HM as Carol?  Happy running to you and your friend.

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Karen, the mouse and his marketing machine really know how to suck in us runners!  Sorry DH is being a butthead.

And a shout out to Fran... come on in, the water's great!

Hi to everyone else!

FYI to everyone first.  The Northern Lights are expected to be much further south than normal tonight.  I posted a new thread with predicted areas expected on women's.

Welcome, Fran.  Which half are you signed up for?  That's exciting!

Annie, also good to see you again the weekend.  Congrats on the good feedback from the doc.

Ginny, I've sure ditched local races when the weather's been bad, occ even if I had registered.

Lisa, bummer on the leg! Remember..."the hay is in the barn," so no worries about resting. FWIW, I like my Stick or rolling pin much more that the foam roller. The latter always seems to hurt, which may be good for me, but I usually opt for what feels good.  : )

Marjorie, nice that you "planted a few seeds" for your dad to think about.  Hopefully, the church will also influence him reg the 6 mos. Prob not, but we can hope.  : )

Laura, the same thing happened to me several years ago with DH's truck. It had auto locks and I wasn't really used to that...it was running...had to call a locksmith...late to work.  Handy guys are worth a lot.  : ) You might consider getting him to show you stuff...I've learned a lot since DH died.  Good luck tomorrow!

Amy, l'm looking forward to meeting you, too!  I'm looking forward to the race.

Cindy, 37?  Let's hope it's sunny if  that's the temp!  I won't worry yet...when I went to Houston, the forecast changed every single day...a lot. Guess I'll bring many  clothing choices. : )

Carol, good luck tomorrow!  Glad to read another person here is impulsive about races!

Karen, bummer on missing the race, but prob a wise choice.  On your getting sick and not DH...my DH's job before I knew him had been Environmental Health. He once told me one factor in some people getting food poisoning when others don't is related to dose of toxin. Bodies can handle small doses, not bigger ones. Since you're small, you might be more affected.  There were other factors, but it's been a while...   Could be something else, too.

Gatsby, sounds like a very nice day for a run!  CA does have advantages!

Julie, Ragnar does sound like fun!

I signed up on T or W for a half today, Run at the Mill in the Run for God series, which I had heard nothing about.  What a nice surprise!  It was very well organized and a lovely run thru the peaceful GA country side.

I was scheduled to do a 12 miler and thought I might as well do it with company. : )  I got up at 4 for the almost 2 hr drive (Note: I'lll skip tonight's dance party in favor of bed). We started at 7, a couple minutes before sunrise and had very soft light for a while and the fields were covered with sparkling dew.  It  was 42 which felt chilly for about an hour, but  warmed up after the sun got higher.   It was on quiet country roads and we ran past cows, green pastures and pretty barns. Spring has come here...a few dogwoods were beginning to bloom and irises, violets and other small wildflowers were on the roadsides and the trees had small leaves.

I was impressed with how well organized it was despite the small size of 1-200 I think. Plenty of waterstops, a few port a potties on the route, etc. They even had a couple bands on the course...a total surprise...and a van of loud early preteens moving around to be our cheering section.

I finished in 2:18 which seems to be my new time. It was hiller than the last half...constant rollers today, but runnable, nothing  like my neighborhood hills. I did get first with only 2 of us in AG, though I think third finished just before awards. The award was a red metal size 13 footprint with Run for God and this quote as cutouts:  "...And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us."

They had the usual bananas, oranges and packages of PB crackers, but a church group cooked hot dogs.

It was just a nice surprise. I might do it again...

I missed your post, Camille. I think we are too far south for the Northern Lights. I look forward to seeing you next week!

I ran (6) 800's, today.  They weren't terrible.  My legs felt OK at the time, but they hurt a bit now.  I have a goal 5K in about a month, but I am racing a "test" 5K next week.  I am trying out a new way to taper for next week’s race.  In case it is a flop, I won't do it next month.  I read about it in the racing forum.  Evidently, I am supposed to cut my mileage drastically and run nothing but 400's.  (5) 400's on day 7, (4) on day 6, etc.  I’ll either be really fast or really exhausted.  I posted this in yesterday’s thread, accidentally, so this is a repost.

I was planning on going to a funeral for a colleague today, but someone hit my car, yesterday (hit and run).  I live almost an hour from my job, and I really need my car to get to work.  I can’t carpool, because I work a different schedule than most.  There is no public transportation.  I could have had the insurance deal with the repairs, but I didn’t think I could deal with anymore insurance company stress.  I just spent the last month dealing with house repairs.  I had most of the car repairs done, today, and paid out of pocket.  There is still a small dent, but the car is almost 10 years old.  I’m just going to live with it.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get to the funeral, which I do feel bad about.

Ginny:  Racing is supposed to be fun, not an obligation.  Skip it if it is too cold.

Cindy:  I hope you had a good run.

Julie:  Do you mean that you are going to do your long run on the TM.  That is hard core.  Good luck.

Lisa:  I’m so sorry about your leg.

Carol:  Good luck on your half tomorrow.

LC:  What a hard week!  Enjoy your race, tomorrow.

Fran:  Welcome.

Hi Marjorie & Amy

Karen:  I hope you feel better soon.  Stomach problems are the worst.

Gatsbyburd:  sounds like a nice run.

Camille:  That sounds like an awesome race!!

Carol, re: your question about the weight loss, I started using the app My Fitness Pal in the middle of January. It was time consuming at first, mostly because of the way I cook. I cook lots of  things from scratch, and don't necessarily use recipes. That meant if a was cooking a pot of say, chili, I would have to measure every ingredient before putting it into the pot, and then when the chili was finished I would have to measure all of it to find out how many 1 cup servings were in the whole thing. However, once you do that and save it as a recipe, you are set. So after the first couple of weeks, and entering a number of recipes, it was easy to use. Now it takes very little time.

However, I still have about 15 pounds to lose. You are working on 10--don't you think those last 10 are the hardest to lose? I love Karen's comment about cutting off an arm, not a leg! And Ginny's dental suggestion!

fran, welcome!

karen, sorry about the illness...and about the DH comments. And the race results.

LC and Linda, yikes about the car problems.

camille, I am heading over to look at your northern lights map, although it's overcast here.

Hi to all I missed!

annieSusan