1:35:07. Supposed to do a tempo run today. Yesterday I ended up getting sick, my throat hurt more and more as the day went on (wasn't fun since I was stuck in the same room in a variety of meetings with people for more than 10 hours). I wouldn't have run even if I had had the time ... to top the sad story off, even though I felt "ok" while I was running today every time I started to speed up to anything faster than a 8 min pace my IT band hurt soooo bad -- or maybe it is my quad, who knows. I have an appointment with my therapist today anyway - so hopefully he can fix it up. I ran on the "Richland Greenway trail" to Belle Meade -- to the home of Al and Tipper Gore and back (not really their home, just their neighborhood). Did not see Al, although I am sure he runs this route, it is the route for Nashville runners to see and be seen ;-). My flight out of Nashville was canceled today -- luckily American rebooked me on a different airline through Denver so I did make it home really late last night, took 10 hours from airport to airport. I couldn't miss work today - I just have a gazillion meetings - the stimulus package has incorporated some special NIH grants whose deadlines are coming up .... every institution I collaborate with are submitting hundreds of these grants with very short notice so the next couple of weeks are going to be quite a challenge (hence the name of the grants I suppose, "challenge grants" ). Happy Friday bloggers. | 