I have a son at Waterloo and a daughter at Western.  She runs but is not competing this year.

Here's a link to the OTFA website.  http://www.otfa.ca/content/home.asp

Here's one to York U.  http://www.sport.yorku.ca/interuniversity_sport/teams/track_field/index.asp

Right leg is starting to come around again.  I walked for 25 min on the TM yesterday.  I also tweaked the right hammy while stretching, but it's fine today.  Each day gets me a feeling a little bit better.

For those who love cold weather...it was -30C here this morning.  Supposed to warm up and rain by Saturday.

Sierra wrote: "*I have a fierce competitive streak "    - *I love that!   One of the younger girls we train with is just like that.  She ran a tune up 1/2 marathon locally in prep for her first marathon (Houston).   Goal was to run strong and get a feel for marathon pace.  But on the way back she kept noticing women in front of her and she couldn't stand it.  Reeled in most of them before she ran out of time.

6.5 ez miles this morning.  Already 70 ° wind, and humid, 

DW leaves in the morning to drive to Ft. Worth to run the cowtown marathon Saturday.  Goal is 4:12-4:15 which will be a 10-12 min. pr.  Trying to get her ready to run a 4:05 in Portland in the fall so she can go to Boston next year.  Pretty amazing as she was never any type of athlete until about 10 years ago.

Good runs to ya.

Tigger, glad you're feeling better. Fred, take care with the sore knee.

I thought I had mellowed out some when I raced again in 2007 at the Love Run (10K) in Camarillo, CA. Since I hadn't trained for a race, I thought I'd just run it easy. But, fat chance of that. Once the race started, it all all came back to me. That racing fever It's funny but if there are men around me that are running a similar speed, I'll race them. But generally, it's the women that I'm conscious of.

Today was 7 miles, and that was about all I could do comfortably. When I started, I thought I'd run 5, so glad I felt like going farther. It was on the track and road. I felt the residual from the 12 miles last Sunday and the consecutive days running without a break. The two slow 3 mile days helped, though, this week. Tomorrow, maybe I'll run 3 miles before we leave for the camping trip. Then, I'll take Saturday off (maybe). We'll see.

Good luck on the 17 KS-50 mph winds would be very tough to run inand the painting job. Since you're running fewer miles this week, it sounds like the job landed in a good week to do it.

No run for me this morningI woke up late, and then repacked my stuff for the camping trip. We're going to the same general area as the other trip to keep our dog out of cactus-that part of the desert (Inyokern--near the town of Ridgecrest) has no cactus. It has a lot of creosote and sagebrush. This time I'm bringing garlic olive oil for pasta, fresh tomatoes, and parmesan cheese. And, two good bottles of a Merlo/blend. I guess I'll have to run a few miles tomorrow to justify the pasta

Have a good weekend everyone.

Also, wecome Simon.

I ran 9.3 miles today. 50 degree weather did not hurt. About a 30 mph wind. My hip flexors were typically tight, and I am not sure what to do about that. I might have to double my reps of hip-stretching exercises. I am running the Quonset Point Ten Miler on sunday, and it is supposed to be cold and very wet. Hey, as long as i do not have to run in scuba tanks and flippers and weight belt, then all the rain is just like water off a duck's back.

Oh, I tried gel for the first time today. I had heard you are supposed to take it with water, so I took it at the beginning of my run. i don't know what I expected, but it seems I had a good amount of energy during the run. It was Karb-Boom Apple Cinnamon.

Lauren, it'd be nice if you could find some wild herbs on your trip to put in that super pasta!

                                                                                Paul

Paul, I hope you won't mind if I offer my opinion here, but you will be much better off if you avoid using Gu's and gels and sports beans and the like for short runs.  And especially don't use them before you run.  The basic idea of these supplements is that they give you an infusion of sugar at a point in a distance run where you are depleted.  When you begin to run there is already sugar in the muscles and in the blood, and as this is used to sustain the exercise, your liver will break down stored glycogen ot continue to supply you.  At slow paces of course you are also burning fat.

You can run for a couple of hours or more on stored glycogen, which means you needn't rely on candy etc to obtain more.  Daws uses this analogy.  If you and i decide to race our cars over a one mile course and I have a full tank of gas and you have half a tank, who will win?  The answer is that the amount of gas in the tanks is irrelevant, since neither of us is going to run out of gas.

Even worse is to ingest this stuff before you run.  When you give yourself an injection of sugar before beginning an exercise, the pancreas will secrete insulin to lower, or restore blood sugar levels.  Why would you want that to happen at the start of your exercise?  Best is to leave that stuff alone until you get into very long distance runs.

5 miles for me today, giving me just 27 for the week.  Next week it's back to normal.

Rooting for KS' wife today.  Temps are perfect in Ft. Worth for her marathon, but unfortunately the wind is brutal today.   Spareribs

Sounds like DW did pretty well, all things considered.  I hope she feels good about her race, even if she had potty breaks.  I only had one race where I potty breaked.  It was mile 4 of a HM when I went rumbly in my tumbly.  By mile 5 I had to pull over for a pit stop that took 02:12, and put me over 2 hrs chip time.  It took me 4 years to finally break 2 hrs.

Today was a new beginning.  Sweetums is recovering from a week long flu, and I am recovering from my leg issues.  But we decided to use up a piece of the day by skiing.  It was only 4k and a bit, and in almost 45 min, but it was a start.