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Good Morning! "Long" run for me today. Long is not very long anymore. But I did sign up for a half in the spring so I will be doing more "long" runs soon. It is still pretty warm here and very dry. We did get a little bit of fall color, but it's mostly just dry and now the leaves are beginning to fall off. We have not had…

Hello!!!!!! Here to say hello! We finally got some cooler weather, but it was really just for a few days. Now the nights are chilly but the days are warm. We have had a lot of sun, no rain for a long time, and we really need it. I've been trying to stay on top of things, but it gets so hectic and I get so tired. I have…

Becky!!!! Congrats Grandma! Do you have a grandma name picked out? Will you be Grandma, or Nana, or Mimi? Or something else? That is sooooo exciting! Sharon is doing okay, she still is running a lot, and tending to her organic garden. We have had some very much needed rain, and some wind, but we have not had the…

Hello!!!! Hope all is well, and Becky, I am always so happy to hear from you. How do you freeze your tomatoes? I should try to do that. My mom and sister can their tomatoes and that is just too much work for me right now with my job. I've been hitting the Y twice a week for strength training and still trying to run as much…

Count me in please!

It is so hot here too - but not super humid, at least not today, thank goodness. Becky, sounds like it might be worse weather there than here as far as that goes. Our air quality is bad. I went out after work and I always roll my window down, but like you said, kind of difficult to breath. Some of my GFs and I went for a…

Good Morning! It's great to hear from you! I am with you on the sugar. That is definitely an issue for me right now. I am struggling. Plus, no matter how well I do, I am gaining weight very fast. I upped my activity, added a lot more freggies, and I am still gaining. I am finding it hard to run with this extra weight on…

@cinemaverick good to see you here! I am no longer running endurance distances, my body hates me right now (health issues). I have a running coach who thinks I can run longer distances once again, but I have gotten terribly slow at this point and my nutrition is not on par - as a result, I have gained weight for the first…

Well said @cinemaverick though I do love to get some speedwork in every week!

Becky!!! Hello!!!! So sorry I have been missing in action. I get so exhausted these days and so overwhelmed and then I just forget to post. School starts here in just over a week. So I guess summer is effectively over. I am not ready for fall. I am trying to run but lately have been plagued with fatigue. Went back to…

Becky, I was SOOOO glad to hear from you as we have heard about the horrible flooding. It doesn't sound good and I am sorry about your garden. Our weather has been extremely hot and humid - it usually is here, but sometimes it has been worse than usual. I'm also still doing the Y and going to run when I am able. Today I…

Hi Becky!!! Sorry, I haven't been here as much lately - lots going on. We've been spending a lot of time at my MIL's house in Kentucky. If we just go for the day, that is five hours of driving. But DH went for a week and I went for a several days, came home to check on the cats, then went back. And work...have been working…

Please add me to the Tenacious Gr8ter team please!

Becky, I am so very sorry to hear about your niece! So young and with small kids, that is just hard. So good that you were able to get to NH - did you fly or drive? That is a long way. The weather here has been crazy. We have also had a lot of wind, tornadoes, hail, flooding, etc. Thankfully it has been nice the past few…

Hello!!! Becky, hope your knees calm down. The weather here is getting hot and the cicada broods are going to be out soon. 13 years ago they weren't too bad. The time before that, they were just awful. I doubt I will get much outdoor time in when they are out, which could potentially last as long as six weeks. Today I got…

Hey!!!!! Busy here too, and still working on the weight thing - don't know how this ten pounds creeped up after ten years of maintenance but it has to go - it is making my running too slow and painful! I did a "race" yesterday, didn't race, ran a little but mostly walked. It was really nice but pretty much one big very…

Hey Beckie!!! My joints don't love me either - it's my knees a little but my feet, wow. I never had this kind of problem with my feet. It might be from the psoriatic arthritis/RA. But I figure just getting out there and doing something is okay! We've had a lot of wind too, but it's all green here and we've been mowing now…

Good Morning! I have been AWOL for a while. Seriously, life had gotten so crazy busy and I was so exhausted and not feeling well at all - just trying to do too much. I think that things are calming down a bit - I hope so. It was the kind of exhaustion where I couldn't even sleep, so it was just a never ending cycle. Over…

Hello!!!! Spring is in the air!!! I am ready for it. We have a lot of things blooming and blossoming. Becky, no, we don't have anyone coming to help my MIL. She won't allow anyone in her house. She needs some help though. And she is getting forgetful too, so that is a worry. And my mom, she had a couple of incidents…

Gr8ters, please!

Hellooo!!!!! Becky, I wouldn't have though about the Y and the college students, but yes, I would imagine that makes things really crowded in general! Our Y will be very busy during spring break for the schools (not college) because parents will bring their kids while they work out, plus they have special programs for kids…

Hey! Quickly stopping by, sorry it has been a while! We've had great temps here, mostly but from time to time, very cold - no snow lately an the cold doesn't last. Sounds like things are working out for you MIL Becky. I don't know what to do about my MIL, I really have to let my DH decide on the right course of action but…

Denise, my thoughts and prayers are with you and Lee as you both navigate this journey. Sending gentle hugs to you!

Good Morning!!!! It was almost 70 here yesterday, wow! Not the norm for sure. It won't be as warm today but still good running weather, in the mid 50s. Becky, I have had this running coach now for over six months and one thing is that he had me start so very slowly and it was almost like starting from zero. I think I…

Hello!!!! Sorry, I have not checked in here in a while. Just busy all of the time. It is so hard going to Kentucky every weekend or every other weekend. Wears me out. That only leaves me one day to do laundry, grocery shop, house clean, and get my run in. Today's run was 10.5 miles (nine miles plus a half of…

Good Morning!!!! And hello Becky. I am always so glad to hear from you. And always amazed that you get out and go in that cold weather. One day, I guess it was last week, I got out to run, and it wasn't cold, maybe low 40s, but that WIND. I could not get comfortable in that. I had a light jacket with me, that I had to keep…

Hi Becky, Oh, I am so sorry that the holidays were so hard. I know that is how it is, especially the first one after such a huge loss. And I don't think you ever stop missing your mom. Is it still snowy and slippery there? My friend went to Minneapolis for Christmas and she was lamenting that there wasn't any snow. Sounds…

Hi, I haven't checked in here in a long time, so sorry! Becky, I WAS in the path of the tornadoes! But I got out of the way in a nick of time. I was out doing Christmas shopping and was on Main Street (which was very hard hit) and saw the sky out the window. Warnings were starting to come over the phone and I high tailed…

Yes please!!!!

Hello!!!!! We just got back from our annual Thanksgiving trip to Michigan. It is always so cold and windy there! I don't like it. I did get out and do one run while I was there, but then the other time that I ran, I went on the treadmill, because it is just too hard to go outside in that cold - and also, it gets light out…