I forgot what the fairie goddess is training for.

Whatever it is, I think she is going to win,

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20 miles at a surprisingly pleasant six-hour pace that got dampened by exposed sunshine on the Lake Washington floating bridges, I-90 and the soon-to-be-demolished Alaskan Way Viaduct after the cool shading during the morning circuit from the Seattle Center to the 5K perimeter of Seward Park Peninsula and back along Lake Washington Blvd.
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Though most of my fellow back-of-the-packers were walking as the temperatures soared into the high seventies as the course opened up, I had just completed my vow to run up a half mile on Second Avenue and the Columbia Way Ramp to the Alaska Way Viaduct in time to see just-turned-80-in-April Marvelous Mel running back down the Viaduct the wrong way towards me.
Turns out that, when Mel’s crossing of the floating bridge had been thwarted by a rare bridge opening for some commercial barges coming in from the ocean-lake locks on the way to Boeing at the south end, they took him and other runners back to the finish for the missing miles.
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Our encounter coincided with his turn-around point so got to accompany one of the local legends the last two miles to the finish.  With a first timing mat about a half-block from the finish, the Rock’n’Roll announcer (famed John “The Penguin” Bingham) was able to call out “Welcome to 80-year old Mel and 70-year-old barefoot jon.” No wonder I love running so much.
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Short bike ride and dip in the lake afterwards for a tri-perfect day.
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ps enke: were you at the center of the seattle universe Fremont District for their famed Summer Solstice Parade today?  However, I think the Solstice/Painted Cyclists who unofficially opened the annual Fremont Solstice Parade there today are painted, not not.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/947100-129/solstice-migliaccio-naked-fremont-parade-cyclists/