Hey all! Happy Thanksgiving!!! Spending the weekend down in the States. Ate way too much the last 2 days and I have another family party tonight. I've been running so I'm hoping I'm at least keeping even with the eating I've been doing. Probably not, but one can only hope.

For anyone who's interested, I've heard of a new place in the GTA that's going to provide fitness testing. Check out the website at www.imfit.ca[/URL" target="_blank"> .

D.

Hey all! Got back at 1:30 this morning. Traffic was awful. Next year I have to remember to not travel on the busiest travel day of the year!!! That was dumb! Not thinking too clearly today. It's so much harder now to go without a full night's sleep. Guess I'm getting old.

Since we're discussing The Running Room I have to bring up my pet peeve. Why is it they always set up a new store in the same neighborhood or street as an existing and established independent running store? I've seen it way too often and it ****** me off. There are lots of places RR can set up shop. Why do they have to keep crowding the independents? Seems kind of slimy to me. They have now moved into the same neighborhood as Endurosport near York Mills and Leslie. I am never going to purchase anything from them again.

Dawn

Strep, I second that. If I was a female, I would love to have Kiefer's children. I can't wait until 24 is back on the air.

My choice would've been Laurier, but I'm more of an old school Canadian, having been in the country for...oh, 12 years. I'm just glad an athlete or entertainer didn't get it. Douglas is probably a sensible choice, given that healthcare is our ethos.

quote:<HR>aurang...I'm laughing. The runner's credo is: "If you want to screw up your training work for Running Room."

Not true, but I know where they come from.

The "walking" apparel entered the store on Friday...pretty soon it will be half and half.

I don't think walkers should be shot, but they surely shouldn't breathe our air.

RR has been really successful, but they surely don't cater to fast runners. As a matter of fact I've been getting some grief because a couple of runners in my Learn to Run are gonna go under 25 minutes in the Santa Shuffle on Saturday and that's almost a no-no...they might burst a blood vessel.<HR>

I don't think that the Running Room will ever screw up my training, I'm not even sure if it's possible for me to run much slower than 5:15/5:30 unless I'm running more than 10 times a week. I'm never going to lead a clinic, it would simply be too vexing.

Hey, I remember when I first ran 5-minute kilometres, I thought I was really something. That's actually what ticks me off about the RR, slow people don't always stay slow. Slow people with absolutely no talent sometimes wind up running for universities.

I'm coming off a break, I was going to race the Santa Shuffle downtown and try to get low 18s/17s. Thankfully I'm working, because I would've probably insulted a lot of people. I ran it in Brampton last year with two friends, one of them a girl who probably runs 22-23. We finished 1-2-3, and I stopped racing after having to stop at a traffic light. We enjoyed the perfect finish even without prizes, but we felt really bad about showing up everyone that was there, though we didn't intend to.

I know a guy that works at the Walking Room. That's still not nearly as funny as the walking clinic. FFS, who pays money to, um, go for walks?

And, finally, have you ever seen the incredibly expensive winter pants, selling for $110 plus tax? Or the $15 socks...

Patti........i know i'm late but i still wanted to say"I'm sorry" that this has happened. You wrote a beautiful tribute of him.

JC, i've been told that you are runing Vegas.....so am I. Are you doing the full or the 1/2. I'm doing the half. We're leaving on Friday and coming back on Tuesday. Are you taking a group down?

Hope everyone is doing well.

deb

Welcome back Florie! It's nice to see you posting again.

Great job on the workouts Patti. Seems like you've gotten yourself into a real groove.

Happy December everyone!

D.