Hi Team!
Dave- Thats great Sally will be joining you! And Congrats to Sally on getting the job she wanted. That is wonderful news! How is she liking her new job so far? Way to go on getting your 10 miler done and yay that you werent sore from it. New shoes are always good to have. LOL, that is why I dont watch scary movies. Good luck with your weight loss!
Emily- Were you able to get a new watch yet? Glad you got out for a walk/run Monday.
Lynn- It took 6 huge trucks to repave your driveway? Do you have a long driveway? Im glad they were able to finish it quickly. When I was in Idaho last week, they got snow in Boise one of the days I was there. It seems like most areas have had several days where we are below average temps. Very cool Scott got to see the Tour de California. Im glad you and Scott had a good bike ride in Ft. Collins. Perhaps you guys took the wind with you from Cheyenne! Im glad youve been able to get in a couple 5ks this week.
Vicky- How is your shin pain? I would think it would be hard to change your foot strike. Does it take constant awareness to make sure youre landing right where you want to be on your foot? When do you need to bend your right knee more- while youre training at the gym? Id never thought about the other side to triathlons and marathons. That is interesting. Im glad you had a good weekend with relaxing and runs that went well with no pain! Good luck on your weight loss goals. Ive heard food journals are good at helping with weight loss because they keep you honest and show you what youre really eating and how much.
Mary- Im glad you had a great trip to Disney with the grandgals. What a great surprise for them to have you there! It sounds like you had a good start to your DL half training. I hope your MIL decides to have the surgery soon.
Mike- Good luck to you and Liz on your 10 miler this Saturday and congrats to Robert on preschool graduation. I hope everything goes well with the doctors appointment. Ill send positive thoughts your way! You are doing so awesome on your goal to get 10 half races in this year!!! And thanks for the awesome race report. I loved it!
Kim- Good luck on your half this weekend!!! Thats great your gym workouts are going so well.
Elizabeth- Good luck finding a time to run that works for you. 93 degrees would not work for me either!
AFM, Im back home finally! And its good to be back. My mom had surgery and it went well. I think she was glad to have me there. Shes still not finished with her health treatment, but unfortunately I couldnt stay with her for all of it.
I ran 3 miles on the TM today at a level 6 (10min per mile) and I felt really good about that. Im trying to do run/walk intervals so Im running 10min and walking 1 min. So far its been going well for me, so hopefully that will continue. While I was in Idaho I went to a kettle bell class my friend goes to and it was awesome! 
I would definitely like to get some kettle bells and work out on my own because the workout was great. I had a good time. The only downside is that my triceps in both of my arms are still sore even a week later. The rest of my body seemed to recover just fine. Apparently, I never use that muscle. 
Anyway, thats it for me! I hope everyone has a nice Thursday. Memorial weekend is quickly approaching! Anyone have any plans for the weekend?
Dave- Thats great Sally will be joining you! And Congrats to Sally on getting the job she wanted. That is wonderful news! How is she liking her new job so far? Way to go on getting your 10 miler done and yay that you werent sore from it. New shoes are always good to have. LOL, that is why I dont watch scary movies. Good luck with your weight loss!
Emily- Were you able to get a new watch yet? Glad you got out for a walk/run Monday.
Lynn- It took 6 huge trucks to repave your driveway? Do you have a long driveway? Im glad they were able to finish it quickly. When I was in Idaho last week, they got snow in Boise one of the days I was there. It seems like most areas have had several days where we are below average temps. Very cool Scott got to see the Tour de California. Im glad you and Scott had a good bike ride in Ft. Collins. Perhaps you guys took the wind with you from Cheyenne! Im glad youve been able to get in a couple 5ks this week.
Vicky- How is your shin pain? I would think it would be hard to change your foot strike. Does it take constant awareness to make sure youre landing right where you want to be on your foot? When do you need to bend your right knee more- while youre training at the gym? Id never thought about the other side to triathlons and marathons. That is interesting. Im glad you had a good weekend with relaxing and runs that went well with no pain! Good luck on your weight loss goals. Ive heard food journals are good at helping with weight loss because they keep you honest and show you what youre really eating and how much.
Mary- Im glad you had a great trip to Disney with the grandgals. What a great surprise for them to have you there! It sounds like you had a good start to your DL half training. I hope your MIL decides to have the surgery soon.
Mike- Good luck to you and Liz on your 10 miler this Saturday and congrats to Robert on preschool graduation. I hope everything goes well with the doctors appointment. Ill send positive thoughts your way! You are doing so awesome on your goal to get 10 half races in this year!!! And thanks for the awesome race report. I loved it!
Kim- Good luck on your half this weekend!!! Thats great your gym workouts are going so well.
Elizabeth- Good luck finding a time to run that works for you. 93 degrees would not work for me either!
AFM, Im back home finally! And its good to be back. My mom had surgery and it went well. I think she was glad to have me there. Shes still not finished with her health treatment, but unfortunately I couldnt stay with her for all of it.
I ran 3 miles on the TM today at a level 6 (10min per mile) and I felt really good about that. Im trying to do run/walk intervals so Im running 10min and walking 1 min. So far its been going well for me, so hopefully that will continue. While I was in Idaho I went to a kettle bell class my friend goes to and it was awesome! I would definitely like to get some kettle bells and work out on my own because the workout was great. I had a good time. The only downside is that my triceps in both of my arms are still sore even a week later. The rest of my body seemed to recover just fine. Apparently, I never use that muscle. Anyway, thats it for me! I hope everyone has a nice Thursday. Memorial weekend is quickly approaching! Anyone have any plans for the weekend?
Not sure how this is going to go, I will finish but might not be till a bit later then I was hoping for.
for your mom! I'm glad everything was uneventful. Do you have plans to go back and visit your mom? I use to do kettlebell exercises all the time with my old PT - lots of fun! He always said "Don't let go of them!" I saw video of some guy who could "juggle" the kettlebells - he'd toss them up in the air and then have them land on top of another kettlebell. Not too sure about the right knee... I think my trainer wants to work more on it because he thinks it's weak. I did talk to him about the foot strike thing which he said not to worry about. He said it would change through strengthening exercises and changing my foot strike in exercises other than running. But yeah, it is a lot of paying attention and "forcing" your foot to do something that feels different. WTG on the speedy run!! No plans for the weekend except for my baking class which has been keeping me somewhat busy (sorry I owe you an email 
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We usually end up with about 15-20 of each thing we make. Now if I was running longer distances, I'd probably keep them all! 
I'm also hoping to catch POTC4 - I've heard from a couple of people that it's not great but I've already seen the first three so I'd don't want to miss this one.
It is so much easier to run in the morning because this week remains too hot for afternoon and early evening runs. Humidity was at 80% yesterday so I was determined to get out before the sun.
WTG on the weight loss! You're cooking class sounds fun, but I would have the same problem of what do with the desserts. I like to bake but I rarely do because only Patrick and I are around to eat it.
