Patience; the new endurance sport.

For the record, I do comment sometimes on your blog (not often because I am usually laughing really hard and enjoying the entries like I am reading a fiction novel and who wants to stop reading in the middle of their favorite entertainment to comment?) and I hope you felt the sarcasm dripping through the e-waves when I texted you about my 15 miles and said "Awesome" or whatever it was as in "Pretty awesome that I am in the middle of nowhere running every single day on a treadmill in a bonus room that shakes my entire house because I live in the mecca of non-runner-ville and am desperately missing my best friend and runner bud." I would totally take up skiing if there were any slopes around here and think of you as "forward-thinking" in your mad cross-training skills. Seriously, wait till you show us all up this summer with your Evelyn Salt-like power and focus that streams through you as you fly down the course like its the bunny hill on the slopes, eating the hills for breakfast :). All of this to say I miss you lots. My running is pathetically monotonous and my entries, were I ever to do them, would be even more so. I am beginning to contemplate a new training regimen: marathon training without the long runs. What do you think? Cath

What? Cath who? I feel like I just got caught red handed. But since we are here: A) You MUST see Salt. It is like Alias on steriods (unfortunately, there is only one episode)and B)yes to marathon training with little or few long runs, except for when you come back to Utah. Also--anytime I mention what I've been watching--it's cause I'm on the treadmill. Which, as you'll notice is like every single day since I moved here. However, the treadmill is no longer the central feature of my living room like the old days, so I can't boast the shaking walls anymore. I'm sorry for anyone who attempts to read my "running" blog. My entries have become increasingly less inspired, informational and/or interesting since I gave up real running, and moved away from the river trail. Occasionally a die hard friend or two will comment, but for the most part--the blog is my dirtly little secret in which there is nofastrunning. I'm just glad Sasha doesn't kick me off for defiling fastrunningblog into "fatrunningslobblog".

I am so proud of myself for running 10,and now 12 miles. I will try and get to 15 next Sat....I'm sorry I've been shirking my running duties.

"fatrunningslobblog". I like it. Sounds like you and me need to seriously need to look into branching off. I am also SO glad you post even if no one else reads it because every few weeks when I am sad and lonely without my LuzyLew around to therapize and cheer me up I just get online, click on your running blog, and get a good laugh (or two, or three) reading your stream of consciousness posts which makes me feel almost like we are having a good conversation on the trail. In the meantime, close to 40 miles sounds pretty impressive to me. I am pretty sure I only do 40 mile weeks when the schedule absolutely requires it. Keep up the good work!

Also, I post my whole week in a single day. Not like the old days when I'd get off the trail and be gushing to post about the birds, the river and the sunrise...now blogging is perfunctory duty. Not like the olden days of my personal Walden. Anyway--the blog is "G" rated and "family friendly" so you KNOW you're missing 99% of the good stuff. For that, you just have to get your butt back here.