5/31/11 Post holiday Fitness.

<p>Good morning.  Back to work.  Hrmph.</p>
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<p>Congrats to all the racers this weekend!  Looks like some good results!</p>
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<p>And (early) congrats to <strong>Ailarie</strong> for hitting 100 miles this month -- after the 5 on the TM tonight. </p>
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<p>Nice speedy workout, <strong>RFTL</strong>.  You guys who do tough workouts so early in the morning really impress me.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I'm feeling better now.  My head is a lot less scratchy today, so I guess the allergies are subsiding a little, at least temporarily.  I had a somewhat hard workout last night.  For whatever reason, I decided to do a little speedwork, even though it was 91 degrees.  I managed 3x1 mile repeats at 8:15, 8:01 and 8:09.  Not the fastest miles in the world, but I guess it'll do, considering the heat.  All told it was about a 6 mile run.  Today I'll only have time for 2-3 slow easy miles...</p>
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<p>Oh, I've got a good running story...  My wife and I went to a wedding on Sunday.  We saw some friends we haven't seen in probably 4-5 years.  We'd known this couple for a long time, but we'd just lost touch over the last few years.  Anyway, they had both always been rather big people.  But when we saw them on Sunday, we were shocked.  They had both lost a ton of weight.  The husband has lost 120 pounds, and the wife had lost 100.  And the husband was running his first-ever 5k race the next day (yesterday).  So of course I had to look up his results last night.  And he finished in 29:52, which put him 63rd out of 126 in the M40-44 Age Group -- exactly 50% of the AG.  Very impressive for his first-ever race!  He doesn't live very far from the airport that holds the 5k race I do every Summer, so he said he'd sign up for that if I do it again.  I never would've thought this guy could ever be a runner, but it looks like he's gotten the bug!  </p>