Good morning PBJ--and everybody else.

I just read marathon derrick's story about his dad on the Sunday's thread.  Very nice.

No run for me yeserday.  I had soccer practice at 5:00.  A soccer practice that I thought was at 4:00 so I got there, set everything up and waited.  When nobody showed up, I realized it was at 5:00.  I'm an idiot.  After soccer practice, I went to my daughter's house who grilled steaks and corn on the cob and baked potatoes--it was good.  Of course, I had to have another little soccer scrimmage with the grandkids in the yard.

I'll run after wo...oops...I'll RAW.  Hopefully, I can get it in before the thunderstorms roll in.

Opie, I think you are right. Had I trained a bit better for this, I could have PR'd. I definitely think this is a good course to PR on provided the weather cooperates, which it did this year. I felt like I was running a slight downhill about 75% of the time - or else that tailwind helped me feel that way. But this round of training was not like last years. I had to skip a few runs here and there and there were a few long runs that didn't make it quite as long as they should have been. Plus, last year I was imbedding races in many of my long runs, so they were like tempo long runs for me. It's all fine though. I had a great time and my parents loved seeing me in this type of setting. My dad said that night he had "running dreams". He ran track in HS and even had the school record at the 800m for a few yrs. He never ran again after he graduated and went in the AF, but there still that part of him that remembers fondly what it was like to run in competitions and the thrill of it.

I need to pull up the results and see who the elites were that were there and who won. haven't even looked at that yet.

Erika - you blow me away girl! simply amazing!

I might head out for a couple ez miles. My legs are feeling pretty good today.

Seeing this a father's day thread I like to share a story:

 

My father and I were never real close, growing-up when I was young, less than7, dad was in the Army and was in Korea for most of that time so we stayed with Grandma&Pa, in TN.  When he retired from Army,1966, we moved to MI.  He hired into GM and worked 2nd shift so he was not home alot.  I was always into sports and was big  for my age.  By the 5 th grade I was taller than mom and by the end of 6 th  Iwas bigger than my dad.  My dad was not very athletic and by 12 years old I threw to hard for my dad to play catch any more.  The one thing my dad could do with me was hunt. Not that my dad was a big hunter, but because I was interested he decided that he would take me.  My first day out I got a pheasant ,dad missed several that day.  The last weekend of the pheasant season dad and I went out we put a bird up I missed but dad shot and it fluttered a little and it flew aways then landed about a 100 yds away. We tried for awhile to find it and our dog finally rousted it again. It  flew about 50 yds this time we looked and looked for the pheasant finally after a hour our dog caught the pheasant. We looked at my dad's 1st pheasant and didn't find any injuries, put then we saw a small wound behind it's eye.  HE had hit the bird with 1 BB.  After I was grown and married my DW and I would go visit mom and dad, and every time we visited my dad would bring up the 1 bb behind the eye story.  My wife would say I think your dad is losing it he tells that story every time we visit, and I would laugh.  Dad died in 1997 in car crash on 12-2, 10 days before 71 st bday.  You know I sure wish I could hear him tell that story again!  The moral  to this story is that even though the memory is so important to me now, it was just  as important to my father while he was alive, that one moment we shared together.

 Marathon Derrick posted this last night. What a lovely story.

Tamster, you did great in your marathon. Just think, you were able to run the same time with much less training.

{{{Rosie}}} hot running must be hard for dogs. You know what is sad? I love dogs and I have never owned one!

4 easy miles in cool, sunshine weather. 

Here is to good week to all!

Can't wait to hear from the Team Trout-Slap stories.

Ok Mary, these puppy pictures are killing me.

Here is Miss Rosie as a pup...

Tammy, so glad to hear it wasn't super hot at your marathon like you feared.  Sounds like perfect conditions!  Any pictures to share?

Lamerunner, glad your DD is OK but sorry the car is not. 

Mary and Rob - thanks for the puppy pictures!  We had a husky mix named Chinook about 20 years ago who was afraid of stairs.  We lived in a one-floor house, so the first time she encountered stairs was at my sister's house one Christmas.  She could go up okay, but she was scared to go down, and would sit at the top whining.  She eventually figured it out.

Since we're doing dog pictures, here's one of Ladybug (lying down) and Tazzie (standing).  They're best buddies.  Mariposai, what's stopping you from getting a dog if you love them?

ETA:  Forgot to mention we got an inch of wet snow last night.  The poor aspen trees looked like weeping willows.

ETA -- Ribs, did I do OK with the shirt/shoes match?

Couldn't you find an ugly green hat to match?  Really cool picture, by the way!

Rob, those are awesome pics!! My running photos are always dreadful and I look like I'm doing a death march! MikeE did take a few of me and posted them on FB. I haven't pulled up the marathon site yet to see if my pics are available yet. will do that.

went out for a 2 mile run. ended up with 2.5, 25:00. felt good and easy. in fact, I probably feel better now than I did before I ran.