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You sound like my younger son. In his T-ball days, one of his team mates asked the coach 'are we winning?' coach answered 'are you having fun? Yes?, well, then you're winning.' My son turned to me and grumbled 'we're really down by two runs.'

No Thursday run for me - had to get my son to school too early today. But I did do my running clinic last night, whcih totally kicked my butt. Went to the gym after to do my shoulder rehab stuff, and tried to do some treadmill work, but was dying after the first mile, so I went home. (That's the problem with treadmill, you…

There is bound to be a local kennel club, so that is a good place to start for references. Check with the local vet to see if they know any local breeders. It may make a difference to you whether the dogs are bred for show or field trials / hunting. The show lines tend to be cuter and a little less 'high drive'. A high…

Track Tuesday (TM)!! mile warm up 3 x 1600, mile cool down. Just me and M today. M is half my age (literally) and a bit of a local star on the women's triatholon circuit, but she is just coming back after having a baby, which kind of evened things up for us:laugh:

Ok, the peer pressure is starting. The Gasparilla Distance Classic is in Tampa end of February, and my running buddies are starting to talk about it. In years past, the weekend consists of a 15 K and 5 K on Saturday and a 1/2 M and full on Sunday. They dropped the full this year and substituted an 8 K. They offer…

Actually, they are a chain, with outlets in California and New York and elsewhere. Kitchen is dedicated to gluten-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, vegan, organic, etc, etc. The Florida outlet is located in Orlando in downtown Disney as part of Pollo Compera (?), a new restaurant that just opened. Didn't see any carrot cake.…

It is called BabyCakes, and the oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip cookies are 'crisp' rather than chewy but very tasty. The agave-sweetened brownies are not super sweet but nice and chocolatey.

Back in town after a weekend on the road. No running, sort of OK on the diet, except there was this gluten-free bakery as part of this restaurant, so I had to try some of it, didn't I? It was research, really.

A kitty that size only takes about 2 mg, 1/12 of a 25 mg tablet. It also comes in pediatric liquid, 12.5 mg/ml = 0.16 ml, about three drops, but I bet he won't like it:tongue:

:laugh: It must take work to post a response to everybody like this. After being away from MFP for about 28 hours, I had 2.5 pages of posts to catch up on. I thought I read through them all, but half of your responses, I don't even know what you're talking about. Got back last night from Baltimore. The weekend is just an…

I was hoping you'd call it the rabbit club. At least then I'd be thinking all that lettuce would be making me faster. :wink: OK, accountability time. Two days over (just a little) on calories this week. Weigh in this morning - 168.5, down 2.5 pounds. (Maybe there's something to this lettuce diet after all:laugh: ) On the…

Man, you go out of town for 24 hours and this thread moves faster than the old one! Man, this logging thing is getting dicouraging. Missed my run today because I was on the road, have been living on salad because that is often the only gluten-free meal you can get when you eat out - supper last night, again for lunch…

Track Tuesday (TM)! warm upo, 2 x 800, 1 x 1600, 2 x 800, cool down for five miles total. Not my best work out - 800s on 4:10-4:15, mile at 8:30, but not too bad. Thank goodness today is a running day. Yestrday was a day off, and I got so hungry by the end of the afternoon I thought I might have to chew my arm off on the…

Thanks!

Don't bring age into this:laugh: I'm old enough to be your father (at least in the white, trailer trash kind of way). (I was depressed when Ray posted a real picture. I thought he was old like me, and I kept thinking, maybe there's hope for me yet. Then I realize I could be his dad (in the same WTT context):laugh: Ok, if…

great job!!:drinker: :drinker:

Darn those food diaries!!:grumble: Ate a sensible breakfast and lunch. Had a banana and an apple for snacks. When I started figuring out how many calories I was going to eat for dinner (boneless pork spareribs), I had to change from a rest day and got out for 7.5 miles. Now I can have some dessert too!:wink:

Dusted off the food diary yesterday. It does make you pay attention to what you're eating. Especially coming into the holidays. Too bad about Zenyatta, but what a heck of a race!

The hunger thing is a real problem for me when I am training for a marathon - I can eat everything in sight. It is frustrating to be working out so much and still gaining some weight, even when you eat 'well'. I should have signed up for my Christmas 1/2 M for motivation to pick up my miles. But you have a taper coming…

We get so used to sweating like crazy about 8 months of the year. The other four months, dry wick fabrics actually work. Who knew! Need to start logging my diet again. Haven't been cross training much lately, but have been eating as much as usual. Grabbed my jeans after my run this morning, and they are tight:grumble:…

Leash, sorry you're still hurting:flowerforyou: Ran 7 miles for you this morning. Great morning for a run - only 50 degrees and not humid. My shirt was still dry at the end. Such a nice change from flop sweat!

Hmmm, did I call it, or what? :wink:

Thanks for getting out there! Sounds like a good work-out

Yeah, you say that now, but after the soreness wears off, the bad *kitten* will kick in, and you'll be thinking, 'I can do it faster next year':laugh: Seriously, sorry it didn't go as well as you had hoped.The frustrating thing after a tough race is that ,much of the time, you can't figure where it went wrong. Some days…

Actually, it was a matter of my legs being super tight / crampy, my stomach being crampy, everybody in the group bailed on me this morning, so I'd be working out alone anyway, thought I'd avoid the crowd at the polling station at the high school (especially since we use the track 'illegally'), blah, blah, blah Actually, it…

8 miles in 40 minutes :noway: That's smoking!:smokin: Actually this is just the grammar police busting your chops:laugh: Yeah, Kechie is in the house!! Track Tuesday (TM). Actually, for a number of reasons, I did my work-out on the treadmill instead of going to the track. Hope Bgood has my back on this.

You just wanted your name on the header for starting the thread! Early morning runs at down to the mid-60s this week, but still hitting 80s by the afternoon. I haven't had an M&M all week, which is pretty good since there was Halloween candy in the house. Did grab a couple Reese's cups yesterday, but with all the…

Thank you for making that point. You can (and need to be) the 'pack leader' without being aggressive or abusive. The big thing is to clear of your expectations and to be consistent. Years ago, my wife and I had 7 (all male) dogs, and they knew they got to pee at the start of the run and at the end, but 'let's go' was run…

Totally agree. Use your days off to cross train (strength training, swim, bike, whatever). You can work on building your mileage after you are finished the program.

Most plans will get you up to 20 miles for your longest run, but that is usually a 16 week plan. If you are on a 10 week schedule, max-ing out at 18 is reasonable. You want to be running about 15 miles a week comfortably at the start of your 10 week program, otherwise you won't have the endurance base from which to build…