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9.2 speed work miles for me. I did 12x 1 min/1min recover. Heading to abs after work.

GREAT run! I felt awesome out there! It was raining and cold..but still felt awesome. A little eerie because it was the same mileage and same route as last Wednesday when everything went down. My speed wasn't that "speedy" but that is okay. Waking up those legs a little High mileage starts creeping in this week.

Back to work! Lots to do today. Mammel has been very nice..he has already stopped by my office and offered any help and if I needed to leave that it was okay. The team had also sent some arrangements to the house. They are being super supportive.

Lori – Interesting about the heart rate and the doctors! You would think that they know with a runner!

Docket – Nice run!!! So, how much weight gain did your parents get? That is my worst fear and what has stopped me from trying to quit in the past! Maybe I will be the rare one that doesn’t. I am sure I am one of the RARE marathon runners that smoke.

Carol – LOL, enjoy all this “you” time you are getting now!!! How long until your trip? I think you are going around the same time as Sandy, right? Yes, back to work. Last night I started crying out of nowhere and he and I just cried together. You are right – he has a lot to work through as well.

Happy Monday!

Sandy/Laura - How did you change your registration for GC?

Damarias - 7 on your new TM ???

carol

Well, the weather people lied.  We got about the double the snow yesterday that was predicted.  6 inches was HARD (TWSS) to run in.  Did 5 mi and tried to stay on roads but some roads were too busy so had to hop up on the unshoveled path.  Ooof my quads can feel it already from having to pick my feet up so high.

Fun news of the weekend – my sister is fostering a chocolate lab/mix puppy.  OMG I’m in love.  He is soooooooo sweet.

Sad news of the weekend – my cousin died after battling frontal temporal dementia.  47 years old.  His mom and my mom were sisters so we did a LOT with them growing up.  His mom died at 63 and mine at 71 of same.  He is way WAY too young.  His wife has just been amazing and my heart breaks for her.  And their kids – 20 and 17.  I’m hoping the funeral is before I leave so I can go – it should be but two of his siblings are out of state.  That’s going to be a rough one.

More big snow coming tonight/tomorrow.  5-ish inches.  Looks like Cathy is going to get more of this storm.  And, yep, clearly I’m a true Minnesotan – always talking about the weather!

Lizzie – that’s crazy and super awesome you have already seen some benefits of stopping smoking.  So happy to hear HCF is continuing to improve.  Man what a week for you two.  I’ll probably WFH tomorrow but have to come in Wed for a health screening and I have a customer meeting close to the office on Thursday.  Hope you are recovering from all your extroverting over the weekend!  Nice run this morning!  Oh gosh, I bet that was eerie running the same route as last week.  No doubt you will be thinking of this for a lonnnnnnnnnnng time.  SO SO glad Mammel and your team is being helpful and nice.  Have a good day!

Lori – dang, awesome 18!  Are you getting any of these storms rolling through?

Tessa – yep, seems it’s storm after storm rolling through.  Yep, pretty over it all.  Is it the wine marathon on Saturday?

Gatsby – cold??  Pshaw – 40s is shorts weather!  And damn near a tank top haha.  Nice job on the 22 and then KBs and 6!  You are getting STRONG!!

Karen – can’t wait to hear about the pizza party!  Sounds really fun getting to chat running and all.

Sue – glad you are feeling better.  Wow, I didn’t realize there was another baby on the way either.  Congrats!  And a new house in a month!  A lot going on in your world.

Elina – I saw on the news this morning in Estonia people kayak down snow hills.  Pretty funny!

Carol – laughing at your day including NOT changing any diapers haha.  I hope you have an AWESOME day doing ANYTHING you want!  Nice miles over the weekend!  Yes, HUGE relief to switch to the half.  Just did that all this morning.  I’m hoping it will help me hate winter less.  I’m not going to worry about mileage or training at all until I get back on March 8^th.  Okay, finding how to switch was a CHALLENGE.  Go to the sign up site, search your name, click on name to login, then in top right there is a link to switch.  It didn’t cost anything but it sure was hard to find!

Damaris – okay, I am cracking UP at “better to be fat than dying”.  True!  Lizzie, you will NOT get fat because you are you.

Have a good day!

i could not sleep last night. Partly because I had been extroverting so hard that evening, I think. And then Riley woke up early morning with his ear bugging him so kept shaking his head....guess he needs to go to the vet. Then DH was up at 5 to leave for the airport. I let the dogs out when he was up then went back to bed and slept until almost 9 am! Can't remember the last time I slept that late.

The party was fun. 18 people! I still have trouble grasping that this has become a decent sized group and that if I plan an event, people will come. And at 8:30, when the last of them left, I was feeling kinda like a genius for doing it on a "school night" and starting early. Honestly, don't know if it's some kind of imposter syndrome thing or something like that, but I still find it hard to believe that people are willing to pay good money for this group (there is another group the covers the same area and we even see out on some of our long runs and they literally charge half what I do). But they all said really nice things, and even my neighbors, who I was sure were one and done (and I told the two I was running with that Saturday), said they were going to join again. I think he got inspired by spectating the marathon and not only seeing our other neighbor do it, but a bunch of people that they ran with for several months. It is a pretty cool race, and then seeing his running buddies, thinking wait, if they can do it, and a few months ago we were running the same schedule, I could do it. My coaches loved their coaches gifts (quarter zip pullovers with our logo embroidered on them), plus I gave out a couple random "this person inspired me" gifts, and then I bought a bunch of 13.1 and 26.2 stickers and put them out for anyone that did the distance to take. I was surprised - they almost all went and people were excited about it. Anyway, my heart is full. And my fridge is full of leftover pizza. With DH out all week, I'm gonna have to do a lot of running because I'm having pizza for dinner every night.

Anyway, I have 8 miles on the schedule today with a bunch of 800s and 400s. I may switch with tomorrow's rest day because it's 70 degrees here already at 10 am. And my legs are a little achey from standing on my hard tile floor for a few hours at the party last night - that bugged them more than the 14 miler the day before. I was going to go to a  9:15 class at the Y, but with the sleeping in, didn't make it. I'll probably do a strength training video, plus I need to do some yard work.

Carol/Sandy/Laura, last night a couple people asked me what marathon I was training for and I was trying to explain our group and how people from all over the country were coming to run for Liz' running bachelorette party. I may have mentioned that the northerners were all starting to drop to the half after the weather you all have been having. I could see them trying to picture training in Sandy's weather and giving it the big nope.

Carol, congrats on surviving the grandkids for an entire week! That must have been exhausting.

Liz, happy to hear of a normal morning for you! I'm glad mammal is being human - good to know he has it in him. I'll pile on with the others on the belief that you can totally handle this no smoking thing. You guys were going to quit anyway. Yes, always mention to the doctors you're a runner. I remember when I had my eye surgery, all the other patients were old people getting cataract surgery - I'd only been running maybe six months, but between my age and my HR, they had to double check every time. And when DH had his big bike crash in Maryland and was in intensive care in the hospital, they eventually had to reset the low HR alarm because it kept going off and they'd come running. Funny you just got the XR as well. I love the facial recognition and I love that they got rid of the home button so the screen is bigger.

Damaris, enjoy those 7 TM miles. At home.

Sandy, I am sorry for the loss of your cousin. That is so sad and way too young. Chocolate lab/mix puppy? I'm guessing that's the cutest ever little fuzzball. I'm glad you switched to the half - way too hard to try to get training in with snowstorm after snowstorm after -35 degree weather. And now you won't have to stress about trying to get runs in while on vacation.

Margaret, impressive long run this weekend. You just hang out quietly over there on the west coast and absolutely kill it in training.

Carol - Here's the instructions:

We do have a no-refund policy, however there are several options if you find you can’t participate in the original race of your choice.

First — transfer down to an alternate race so long as there is availability in the event requested.  Login to your profile –> My Registered Races –> Mercy Health Glass City Marathon –> Click Edit –> Click Transfer Event.  RunSignUp will then walk you through the rest of the process.

Will check back in later tonight, just home for a quick lunch then have to travel and see some peeps then DS basketball game.  Fun stuff!

I'll be running the marathon, Lori, unless the weather is hot and Wisconsin (the week after) is better.  But in any event I will save you a beer, a hotel room to shower and my offer to drive you or anyone back to Detroit on Monday morning stands.  I think that will be the airport I'll fly into, but I won't book it for another two months, ha.

People are changing their GC registration? I'm still looking at a 6 hour finish for my full. As of now I will keep it as is. Someone save me a beer. Lol

 

I’m doing the marathon, I will not be speedy, and I’ll be hanging out at the finish line until everyone in our group is done, barring tornadoes, thunderstorms or snowstorms.

Seloc, I’m sorry about your cousin. Dementia is terrible at any age, but 47 is so young.  

Waves to to everyone else. On my phone and supposedly working...