Congratulations Donaldo - not an easy role at all I would think.
Well done again to your youngest Dustin - thats great swimming. Great that she is pleased too.
Alehouse - sounds like you've got a good doctor there.
Chickadee - not a marathon (well not till later in the year anyway) - currently getting ready for the NZ Half Marathon Champs in 5 and 1/2 weeks time.
LMH / Alehouse - yes you are probably right about the miles. I'm used to running a lot of miles so I don't pay it much attention but I have had a few weeks of lower mileage at the end of last year so the buildup again is probably making me quite tired.
I shouldn't really care about the first race of the year - and normally wouldn't. But in Oct last year I finally ran a qualifying time for VLM which I can use in 2014 but the timing of that doesn't work for us at all. So I'd really like to run a qualifying time again so I can safely put that off and know that I'll still be able to come over and run it at some point.
Nice running there RFJ