So we all know Team Mimi is a remote training team. Arwen and I and basically train together online and over the phone. We call and chat several times each week to compare notes and talk about how we're faring on the road. The following is a rare glimpse inside one of our 'online training sessions':
Arwen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6212080.stm my cat really is senile

me: ooh lulu was senile too, poor thing
Arwen: whoogs is so sweet but she has a remarkably vacant stare
me: lulu stared at things and then started peeing every time she was stressed which was pretty much any time someone outside the family entered the house or she heard a noise outside or she was just having an emo kind of day
Arwen: lol I loved Lulu
me: bless her -- she had ISSUES
Arwen: Whoogs doesn't do any of that, she just walks around the house at 3 in the morning caterwaulling it wakes Trey every time and he thinks Elizabeth is screaming
me: communicating with the spirits --i just ran 3 miles in 33 degree weather
Arwen: you don't sweat :) );
me: plus side: no sweaty head
Arwen: did you do galloway?
me: down side... when you finally go it it feels like the flesh is going to melt off your body- yeah i'm basically 8/2
Arwen: sweet that is where I am
me: and still managing about an 11 minute mile on a really hilly course
Arwen: on saturdays they make us do 1 mile and 1 minute (which is like 11 / 1) and it stinks
me: oh we won't be doing that
Arwen: I am between 11 & 12 when running 10 miles but that is with the evil 11 /1
me: no no no
Arwen: with 8 / 2 I can stay conversational
me: yay
Arwen: which is what we want me: i'm rebuilding the running mix as i type this... Arwen: cool ); me: i think i like the new one even better
Arwen: I will email you mine if you email me yours
me: btw- the song that killed the music on my ipod?
Arwen: heh heh yes
me: wind it up by gwen stefani which may be the best running song ever
Arwen: I think it is corny
me: dude- she sampled the lonely goatherd song and made it work... she deserves SOME credit Arwen: I agree
me: corny maybe, but infectious.
Arwen: but she is corny cobrastyle is infectious
me: in a campy way, not in a wayne newton kind of way
Arwen: if you ask Elizabeth what her style is she will tell \'my style is the bomb\'
me: can we put this conversation on the blog?
Arwen: yes me: we always say we're going to and then don't. okay then,so no swearing
Arwen: I can't access blogs but you can post it let's post our running mixes too
me: and nothing to offend our gentle readers okay!
Arwen: gentle right are we going to edit this
me: what? my typos aren't endearing? nah, let it rip
Arwen: i thought more about my swearing
me: no- everyone who knows you is well acquainted with your filthy mouth

*it was edited... just a little, but only to protect the innocent ;)