Gr8 at the track after visiting Jen in the hospital tonight. She should come home Friday (crossing fingers). Hadn't seen her in four days, and realized how much I'd missed her. She's better than I deserve, but who am I to argue? Anyway, back to the run. Decided to shake things up with some surges; two laps per mile once I got warmed up. Surges were at about 10K pace, I guess. It feels like I'm getting my mojo back after the pneumonia and all. I'd be in trouble if I were running Boston this year, but I'm not. Eight days now to the half in Bentonville. Obviously in no shape to really race it, although I'd thought about giving it a try anyway. But Rose has asked me to pace her for a 2:00 run, which is low-9 pace, and I figure I might be able to handle that, so I agreed. Probably smarter to do that than to bust it trying and failing to go sub 1:40. Especially since we'll be going directly to Tulsa from Bentonville. | 