1:53:13. Did a long hilly loop in the mountains around my house (52:50/51:00 + 9:22 on some trails) - the last loop was much harder than it looks, not only is the last 20` seriously uphill but a storm is blowing through and it was into a pretty strong headwind ... I was really glad to get to the house! As a way to describe the difficulty of this last bit, it is a road that is winding up into the mountains where I live, it starts at 45mph at the bottom and then because of the switchbacks as it climbs it slows down to 15mph in front of my house ... it is not really a straight uphill climb, but more of a incline with hills. Very good training ... but can be challenging mentally. I felt much better today, I guess I had not eaten enough on Friday, and it meant that I did not have enough energy yesterday, because I ate much better yesterday (very well in fact) I felt pretty good today. Dean really was over the top yesterday with his eating -- he ate a huge piece of pecan pie his Mom had sent us (a cute little 6" thing), some fudge, and a big dinner. We never (seriously never) eat things like that so I was pretty surprised watching him - but he still looks like a skinny runner even after being injured for a year now so he deserves to let loose every few years ;-). I hope you are all having a wonderful day after Christmas. After a morning of depression trying to list all of the work I lost and have to try to make up this week (not to mention the pain of getting a new drivers license - made worse by the fact that the one I lost was a Utah license so I have to spend all day taking the written and drivers test to get an Arizona license, since I don't have an out-of-state to exchange), I am resigned to working a doubly full week next week so I can recreate 2 weeks worth of paper-writing and programming. | 