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Run to Win25 Marathons, 17 Ultras, 16 States (Full List)
Arrogant Bastard....Ale
Yeah tell me about it! First nice day here too, 73F, and I went out for a run. There were bees, gnats, mosquitoes, etc. It's like all winter long they are at their front doors just waiting for the doors to be released by a temperature shift. Jesus Christ
A Saucy Wench
It takes until 73 F for you to consider a nice day? I'm back below 32 F all day and expecting 10-18 inches of snow today Not looking forward to mosquitos when the eventually get here. Being in the land of lakes and all.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Ahh...you make the assumption that there is something between freezing your ass off and 73. Not always the case. Yesterday I ran in 36 and pouring. Today if I had run it would have been 30 degrees. Tomorrow I could run in 75 and sunny.
I was out yesterday running in my Nike shorts and tee
I was out yesterday running in my Nike shorts and tee and I ran into a small swarm of mosquitos. I'm just wondering where they came from since it's been relatively cold un until now!
Maggie & Molly
A local farmer up here in Maine makes an all natural insect repellent that isn't as bad for you as deet and works a hell of a lot better. I'm glad we discovered it last year, especially given the increased amount of trail running that I have been doing up here and the whole black fly situation, which are way worse than the skeeters.
"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."Wisdom of Confucius
HF 4363
Suffering Benefiting from mature onset exercise addiction and low aerobic endorphin release threshold. Hoping there is no cure.
I realize there can be dramitic shifts, obviously because I ran in the 50s last week when the day before I was running in 14 F and then had thunder snow at the end of the week. I just doubt that the first nice day was from a string of 32s all the way up to 73 especially since I lived relatively close to him in central pa the last 4 years. If it was, my apologies. By the way, if you think freezing your ass off is 32 (I will give you a little credit for the rain) then you need to HTFU (hopefully the first and only time I will use that stupid acronym, I am still in disbelief that I actually typed it )
Half Fanatic #846
"I don't always roll a joint, but when I do, it's usually my ankle" - unk. "Frankly autocorrect, I'm getting a bit tired of your shirt". I ran half my last race on my left foot!
does he/she sell the stuff? My family goes camping in Maine every year and those darn black flies drive me nuts when I'm running.
The logging roads and small roads everywhere were TERRIBLE for black flies and deer flies. BUT, I quickly discovered that running along the highway east of Bangor was very nice rolling hills with no bugs, with lots of room to run on the shoulder.