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40 minutes / 5.15 treadmill miles (7:46 pace O/A @ 1 deg incline). Started out at 8:00 miles and bumped up .1 mph/6 sec per mile (with several bumps over last mile).

Em - Thanks for feedback. We do Kong (and several other toys - although he definitely needs a refresh). I know there are fancy puzzle box type toys (Nita Ottoson?), but not sure if they are just gimmicky. He could definitely use a few more food dispensing toys though (we just have the basic snowman kong, and it doesn't take him long to get stuff out). He is crated at night, but at day he's allowed to roam an empty sunroom and hallway. Unfortunately he does teeth on wooden trim boards, so at some point we'll have to replace them ... No run of the house for him yet.

Yo - She's only applied to Maryland so far. Just finishing up common back. Got SATs back (twice) and unfortunately fairly pedestrian - although she's got fairly strong grades in some challenging classes, and good extra-curriculars. She's a pretty anxious test taker There aren't many true "safeties" on her list yet, so she'll have to focus more on schools she has a decent chance of getting into ... Beside the U of NH, I think the only other one we visited that she has a reasonable shot at is James Madison (nice school, but pretty rural area). She really had no interest in other safeties we visited (Westchester, Towson).