Ribs - guess that washing maching motor they put in is a keeper.  Nice racing.   How close to that pace were you before the surgery and were healthy?

Fred - 3 inches of snow?   Good grief.   So you just go out and run 21 miles?   I know you don't race but you should once in a while so I could say "I know Fred; did you see what he ran last week?"   

Hie Sierra

Nice to see Jim pop in once in a while.  He's famous you know! 

Fred, I've only had 2 coaches.  One in high school and the other community college.  Neither of them cared if you were sick, or throwing up, or whatever.  All they wanted was for us to get the workouts in.   They were right of course.  If we were healthy enough to show up; we were healthy enough to run.   If someone was really sick; they better stay home and miss the workout.

Spareribs, what a great story.  I say keep the winnings, it's no one's fault but your own you're running so well.

I'm still logging miles, last week got me to 38 with a 14 mile long run.  I'm running a half marathon this weekend, I pre-registered quite a while ago so will make the best of it.

Good runs all...

KS, most of '08 was heart related stuff, with the surgery taking place on July 31, so yesterday's race was the 9 months anniversary since the operation.  In '07 the whole second half of the year I was struggling with glute/piriformis/hamstring/sciatica stuff.  But just before that, through the spring of '07 I ran the fiveK in 20 minutes and some seconds, around 6:40 pace.

Hey, I found the June thread with no one having to remind me!  4.4 slow on the dirt followed by full flex and core work at the Y. 

Now here is a gracious thing.  Every Sunday I usually run long or hard, so on Monday it's almost always a short slow recovery run.  I have a good friend, early 40's, South African woman, about a 3:25 marathoner, in April she ran the Two Oceans race in Capetown.  She also runs pretty hard on Sundays, but always joins me on Monday for my recovery run.  Of course she could run just as hard on Monday, but she is always so kind about it and will say, "Now let's go really slow today because I am tired from yesterday," and then runs slowly at my pace.  I know of course that she is just slowing down to run with me and doesn't want to say so.  Pretty classy of her I think.  Spareribs

Hi everyone!

Ribs, I liked the story about the handicap race- they do it in golf, and we all accept age groups and age grading. But it's your decision. 

Fred- or anyone- what do you think of the Aussie Rob de Castella? I seem to remember he was nicknamed "the Gorilla" for some reason. I think he also ran very high miles.

There seem to be a lot of Italian coaches in Kenya, I could understand Ethiopia, given the history, but why Kenya? I read the ghost-written "autobiography" of Paul Tergat, who was coached by an Italian, forget the name right now. From the name I assume the coach mentioned in the Canova thread is Italian, who knows these days?

Comrades was won this year by a Zimbabwean, Stephen Muzhingi, I just mention this because I lived in Zimbabwe until the age of 20, back when it was Rhodesia.