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Hi Judy!

I noticed in my Log That Run records that I ran 20 miles this week! Not bad after 2 months off. I fess up; it was about 19+ but why not round up?

Rain and fog here and probably no run; having a few friends over Thursday so have to get organized, the house clean, and finish baking. Also joining a volunteer organization that helps with low income home renovations so need to make that meeting today.

Judy's post about new shoes got me wondering: who here has the least amount of mileage on their running shoes? I'm up to about 350 miles which usually gets me looking for new but more for a change in color than anything else. I also try to beat the knee problems that seeem to come aong with older shoes, Anyway, I'm not heavy and I'm wondering if I retire my shoes too early.

If your days are busy today, don't forget to take a little time for you!

Carolyn 

Good morning!  I had fun meeting Julie yesterday!  I hope your trip home goes smoothly! DD got in early and is really sleeping in. She woke me about 5 looking for some cold meds-wasn't feeling good at all. I'm crossing my fingers that it was just lack of sleep after finals and a weekend with her high school friends.  One of them turned 30 and gave herself a ball (dress up, dance type ball).   : )   Planning on 5 later.

Judy, hope you had a nice run with coach. I'm with you on bread and carbs-love them.

Cindy, I hope your day improves!  Healing vibes to your poor kid.

Carolyn, I'm not good at tracking miles on shoes. I just estimate and usually replace every 3 months. Tried to find a more perfect shoes this time, had too many miles on the last ones and ended up with same shoe.   : )

Tessa, enjoy DD.  Sounds like you're making it to plenty of  concerts. : )

Lisa, it was nice that you contacted Bill. These things just don't make sense. I think the only comfort is in the love people give/show when bad things happen, which you've done for her family. I believe that's where God is, in the goodness, kindness and love. Someone (Mr Rogers?) said when bad things happen, look for the helpers.  Enough rambling...

Have a great day, everyone!

Ok, I have to rant in a "safe" place.

It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach to read posts on Facebook suggesting that the reason for the tragedy in CT is that we've excluded God from our public schools. Regardless of my own feelings about the separation of church and state, all I can think is Really?!? That's the kind of God you believe in? One who allows children to be massacred as vengeance for the fact that we don't pray in school? Because that's not the God I believe in. Or one that I want to have anything to do with.

Ok, rant over.

Julie and Camille - great that you guys had a nice FE. I love the pic!

Crazysue - yay for the run with no bathroom emergencies. I'm lucky that I don't have that issue very often, but my Saturday RB struggles with it and it is so frustrating for her.

Off to check DS2. Whatever this bug is, it seems to move fast. He's already asking for food and says he's hungry. It was the same when DS3 had it.

Hey all,

I ended up walking 5 miles at 4 mph on the TM last night. Incline starting at 5% and up to 11%. I am trying to do this once a week since I know I will be doing some power walking up the mountain at the Mt. Mitchell Challenge. Tonight I will run, probably 6-8 miles. Actual marathon training plan starts beginning of the year, so for the next couple weeks I'm just trying to stay over 40 miles per week, all easy miles.

Julie, thanks for posting the pic of the FE. Hope your drive is going well.

Good morning Judy!

Carolyn, nice on 20 miles after all that time off. I generally rotate shoes out somewhere between 300-350 miles. I start to feel it in my shins. And I'd hate to get an injury because I was trying to squeeze a few more miles out of something that only cost $70 to replace. I know some people get a lot more, but I don't want to push it.

Cindy, you've been having the worst luck the last few days. Hope DS is feeling better quickly. And I'm with you on the stupid, insensitive FB posts. The amount of politicizing on both size on facebook and twitter just made me sick. I pretty much stayed off of both most of the weekend. I'm still trying to process what happened, I don't need a bunch of fighting over what one thing someone has decided is the solution to this. If the solution were a simple "one thing", we'd have tried it already.

camille, glad DD made it in okay. Hope she's just tired from everything and not coming down with anything.

Morning, crazysue! Hooray on the incident-free run!!

Off to get some lunch and then get ready for a webinar scheduled. My boss gets totally freaked out whenever we do one of these so it usually ends up wasting most of my day. Hasn't been too bad this morning, but not looking forward to this afternoon.

Oh, I got my Christmas bonus yesterday. Honestly it's pretty small ($50 per year of service) so I forget every year that we get one. I got it and said "well, it's better than nothing" to my friend that was sitting in my office at the time. Then I thought of Lisa and her DH, and said, you know what, it IS better than nothing, and it's a nice surprise, and it will pay for quite a few race entries! Attitude adjustment time here!

And is it wrong that DH mentioned his mom is going to Florida right after Christmas to stay with his uncles, and maybe we could visit there (Naples trumps Toledo, sorry to say), so I went online this morning to look for races down there? They have a nice half marathon on 1/20. Will see what happens, but if he wants to go down there for a few days, I think I should have certain dates on the ready..

karen

Karen-February is Dances With Dirt in Florida. And... did you know that if you do all 4 ultras (at any point in time) you get a belt buckle.  Gnaw Bone Indiana is the other one in March.  Just keeping you informed is all.

Bill later emailed me again saying that he is setting up a bank account and will get info to me for the Virtual Run.  (I had explained our idea to him)  he also said that it all hit him pretty hard yesterday because others have told him the same thing.  "I know Karnel always believed there was a reason for everything and I hope and pray that this ws the reason because she was so good with children. this makes as much sense as anything."

Cindy:  Why can't we all just use facebook to celebrate each other and give support to each other?  I'm tired of the political rants and people pushing their agenda.

Nice job Carolyn!

Cindy:  I'm sorry your DS is sick.  I hope he feels better soon. 

Yesterday was a rest day.  Today, I got up early.  The week is going pretty well. 

Just a short note before bed.  Can't seem to keep my eyes open!  I ran 5 miles tonight right after work and my legs were like jello when I was done.  It was a nice accomplishment, though, because about mile 1 1/2 I was already tired.  Got a second wind  a mile later though and finished strong.