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Thanks for that link Kristen! Looks perfect. Will get my hubby to help me.  I am off home to bed. I feel so bad right now

I will make sure I return inspires! I promise. Hope everyone is feeling ok! It's that time of year I guess. 

-11??????  YIKES!  Glad you made it home!

I am going to go running in a while when hubby gets back...I am a cranky lady today.  Every day this week has been full of just me and the kids with no breaks and bad nights of sleep + sick kids.....argh. I really need to buy new running shoes but may do that during preschool hours tomorrow so I don't have time against me. 

I did book my tix to Chicago in Feb for 3 nights.  I will certainly freeze my butt off, but hopefully get a good taste of Chicago culture, as well.  I decided to make it a longer trip so we can actually get some relaxing done, not just rush rush rush to Oprah and rush rush rush home.  I'm all ears if anyone has must-sees for Chicago.  I went to kindergarten there and have been there a couple of times since...but I don't know my way around AT ALL....

I hope everyone is getting their workouts in. I have to say that I've been awesome at logging my food, eating pretty clean, and drinking a ton of water...so that's good.  My workouts haven't been as frequent as my plan calls for, but hopefully next week I will be back to normal, as long as there is no illness, snow days, holidays (crap, Monday is a holiday)....well, I am working on it. I have a mountain bike ride on Saturday, a poker ride, which will be fun.  If Lynne is better she will also be logging that one!

I'm hoping to be better! I've sucked up vitamins and all sorts of other cold remedies!  I hope they work. My aero bars arrived today so I'm going to see if Ron can help me fit them and then maybe try a test drive with them. 

I just hope I can sleep tonight as I think it will help me greatly! I seriously do NOT want to miss Saturday's ride!! Nooooo!!! I will be devastated!

Ooh, Churrascuria sounds really good...  I am jealous!

What's on tap for the weekend, aside from staying warm, for everyone?  I want to try to get to the pool- it has been awhile...

Lynne, I don't think the bike ride will do you any good tomorrow.  I will miss you...but maybe if you are better we can hook up over the weekend. No school on Monday (grumblegrumble).  Can't we just have a week with all five days of school, nobody sick, no snow days, no holidays??  Please!!

I managed to run, swim and do my Shred DVD today.  Feeling pretty proud of myself!  I've been eating well but my body is darn slow to respond.  I think I am not eating enough calories--doing the water challenge keeps my tummy full of water so I don't feel very hungry most of the time.  We'll see over the next few weeks if  I suddenly am way too small for my pants....so far, not a problem unfortunately.  I just found out that insurance has denied my appeal for a breast reduction, based on totally different crap than they did the first time. Basically, they suck and I am stuck wearing nine bras to run for the rest of my life.  At least until we get different insurance that actually gives a damn about the people they insure.  If nothing else, it got me to get my mammogram out of the way, so that's done, and now I can look ahead to the season and not have six weeks of healing time to worry about.   Plus I got a coupon that my favorite bras are all on sale today....so I am buying some.  And I got around to buying new running shoes today--same Nike Triax that I like but in BLACK! If you know me...you know that's a definite plus.

This weekend I have that 16 mile mountain bike ride, and Sunday I might go join a friend who is running laps around Greenlake for marathon training.....if not that, then a long run for me on Sunday somewhere.  I hope you all have wonderful weekends!

Edit:  If anyone needs bras, go to breakoutbras.com.  I have coupon codes depending on how much you buy..you can save 10-20%.  PM me if you want the codes!

Happy Weekend!  We've had a nice weekend, and I got in a fairly long trainer ride yesterday. 

I need some training advice.  I am planning to do the mini-mussel sprint in July, but a good friend of mine is doing the Buffalo 1/2 marathon May 24th.  I'm thinking about trying it (I've never raced farther than 5 miles, but I have run 8 in training).  I'm worried about training at cross-purposes though.  I'd obviously try to do some swimming and biking workouts (maybe one a week) but if I'm doing 1/2 mary mileage I won't be able to do much more until May, and I'll be working on distance more than speed.  Anyone have experience with this kind of thing?