12.56 miles 2 hr 7 min. Carl Sanburg home then lake and back. Nice day.

deb nice landing.

org great knee news

nrdgirl what a thoughful gift.

OC congrats on your new job. Don't outrun the bosses son   yet.

Bad things can happen. I was running in a race and we found a dead woman hanging from a tree. The race started eary so no one had found her. I will never forget the silence when 2000 runners gasp as we ran by. They though it was suicide but were not sure.

nrdgirl:  nice collection of medals!  Were they all from last year?

francessmom:  good that you could all be together with your mom today.  my wife and i are very fortunate to still have all of our parents living but they are now in their 70's so probably won't be long.

debm:  ouch...but way to laugh it off.  After all if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?

Met up with my neighbor who is 57 but has been running for over 30 years.  He is about a minute/mile faster than me so was curious if I could hold up.  Ran 2 miles to the HS track, with a break to do some form drills and strides.  At the "oval" we did 4x300M repeats at 7:30 pace.  Then 2 miles back home at 9:30 pace with 2 short walk breaks.  I succeeded in keeping up although I was breathing harder than him at most points.  Was good for me to actually to do a mixed up run like this and not just out and log miles. 

We are both going to meet coyote next week at the Quicker Quaker so they can both show me up.  Also committed to doing more training together so will be good to have a running partner...especially one who is a little faster to push me harder.

Off to Puerto Rico tomorrow so hope to get in some runs along the Caribbean.  Have a good running week, all!

NHLA - The boss's son has about 20 years on me. I don't think I'm showing him up. Unless we do hills...

NRDGirl - Nice medal rack!

Linus - Puerto Rico in January? I'm jealous. Running with faster runners can be a good way to get faster yourself.

Melodylea - Sounds like a divine run.

Francessmom - We took my daughter to see the Titanic exhibit when it was in Denver. Her ticket was for Mrs. Margaret (Molly) Brown, and mine was for a trombone player in the ship's orchestra, so we both knew immediately whether we survived. Oddly, I played trombone for years, and the Brown summer residence is about 10 minutes from my house.

I was beat this morning, but I still wanted to run, as I rested most of the week. It was 7 degrees outside, but knowing that sometimes we get a temperature , inversion over the valley I checked other local weather stations, and found out that 1 mile away it was 27! So I drove to South Table Mountain for an easy run. I really didn't want to climb hills today, but decided that was better than the cold. 5.4 miles, 55 minutes. The air was sparkling clear; I could see all the way to the horizon in all directions. Then church, lunch at the pastor's house (where I found out his wife went to high school with my sister), groceries, and finally sat down at 5. I might as well have been working today, except it was fun tired instead of drudgery tired.

Run Free!

Hey All - Clocked another 4.45m on the TM today, paced at 9:38, slightly faster for me. I didnt read through the TM tips yet, but was thinking about them as I bumped the incline up and down and the speed up and down. I have a somewhat older TM, so I dont let it do the auto-hills, maybe its me, but it always drops from under me as Im daydreaming. I miss running outside. I was thinking about my trail as I bumped the buttons on the TM. So hard to replicate a downhill, or scenery.. however, its so nice and warm! and no falling on my butt Deb!

I received (in yesterdays mail) a 2011-2012 map of a local trail in CT. Its part of what I run, but damn! I could run from MA to the Long Island Sound on trails in CT! I know Im lucky, but I really do appreciate it. FYI, that run looks like it would be about 60 miles. I was thinking how cool it would be to do on a day off in the long future and call my wife to pick me up an hour away. (by car!)

For the first week in Jan, Ive run 6.2 on 1, 3.25 on 4, 3.8 on 5, 4.45 on 6, brings my RUNNING TOTAL (get it?) to 17.5. Last Jan I hit 11 miles all month. So psyched!

jsm - yeah, Im still in for the Polar Plunge. SOCT.org group name OMGWTF! I thought Id be able to wrangle some more into my group, but apparently this is a pretty stupid idea I am going to skill the skeleton for this one, heard a story about someone drowning in a mini-tri and dont want to be the drowning skeleton.

Melody - yes, we should definately meet up to high 5~! Im signed up for the 26.2 - Ive never done one. I did 13.1 one time in Dec and my time was 2:19. Im hoping to come in under 5:30 for the full. Id be psyched under 5hrs.

NRD- Ill reiterate OC, Nice Rack! (Im so damn corney) It really is beautiful. The rack, and the medals were a big inspiration to me when I saw them at my 5K in October. I said on the spot "Next year, Im getting a medal" The rack they were selling at the race was plastic, and frankly - cheap-looking, but they were asking $50 for it! WTF! Yours is so great, I love homemade stuff. For Christmas, got a nice homemade Porteugese Pork Rub, HM Chai Tea mix, HM tea mix, HM strawberry jelly, HM peanut butter, Love it. Oh, and I checked out that Mercedes Benz medal. NICE!

PLAN - Run at least 40 miles every month in 2013. PLAN - Run for 5 miles on next run, get back into this! PLAN - start training for the Marathon, Memorial Day is closing in fast! Ohhh Spring, I cant wait to run in Spring.

And (if youve read this far) you are all great. I agree with NRD and Melody and everyone on this. Running has great comraderie (sp?) - I met up with an old work friend on my First Race 10K this week. She said she thought she saw her boyfriend in last, but everyone is always supportive of every runner. I also read on one of the RW articles how it is really good to support the running community. I pay for subscriptions to land trusts, I join trail memberships, etc. I still havent volunteered for a race yet. I would like to set some time out in 2013 to give back. - Id rather be running, but I think that will be good for me too. -

Greetings All!!

I tested my theory yesterday that P90X Lean is serving as an equal supplement to running during the winter months.  A slow but surprising very comfortable 6.25 miles in 1:01, a 9:45 pace.  I'm happy with that considering that I haven't run in over a month.  Running in and on loose snow slowed me down from my typical pace and was a little painful for my knees but a couple Advil fixed that.  Felt great though and the weather was good, 27 degrees when I left.

OC: It's amazing how fast the weekends go by.  Sometime we have to come back to work to take a break and rest. 

Linus: a 7:30 pace is hauling the mail, good work.

Melody: nice 10.  I used to run with my Black Lab, those were good days.  In her later years I'd walk her to a local high school's track with me, she's lay in the shaded cool grass while I ran laps, then we'd walk home.  I think she looked forward to me running at the track more I did.    RIP Jesser-Dog.  On a different topic, Loving this primal diet.  Feeling incredible and down to the jean size that I used to wear in high school, 32x34.

Cheers All!!!

Francessmom - The roads had been cleared and [mostly] cleared of all ice and snow so I was running on straight asphalt. I do love running in the snow as well, its when there is only a little, compacted layer of snow and ice that I worry about footing becomign an issue!

Tried posting three time but getting throttle message again. I'd like to throttle something. 

MKC -  Logging into Active / throttle.

It wont be easy, but it will be worth it