Nice little 2.5 mile walk pushing Taylor in the stroller. My friend Anne joined us. We always have a great time. Weather was nice and sunny.

In the meantime, here's how dive and I get into cycling shape after a winter of tapering, . . . and it's not even the steepest hill of the annual 33 mile Chilly Hilly around Bainbridge Island.

tet, there is a job opening with your name all over it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZmLzv9NKQ

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That's a great shot. Is that Baker Hill Road? That's where my gear slipped and I toppled over when I cycled over there a few weekends ago. Try getting going in clips on that hill after you

Soundie - the Seattle Times photo actually turns out to be on one of the minor hills, Arrow Point Drive at mile 13.5 just below the half way rest/feed stop at Battle Point Park. However, I am flabergasted that you could actually tackle those mountainous ascents outside the incentive of a formal event. On one of 'em, Dave said he'd wait for me at the top of but when I got up to where he was a half mile later, the road turned left and kept going up for another 1/4 mile! He's been doing nothing but the elliptical for more than two months so maybe it's good for cycling (as long as coupled with a lot of natural talent!). Incidentally, most all of the spills we see during the ride occur chaning gears goin' up the hills and nobody I've ever seen can get going again like you did so most just join pushing-bike-up crowd. Dive and I made sure to shift down at the bottoms and did it near a driveway if possible to get a running start again when needed (me - 3 times; dive - once). ================ Tammy - August is a great running month around Seattle with everything on your weekends to provide something different from the typical road race including several super-sprint triathlons (with my favorite swim distance of 1/4 mile along with 12-14 mile bike and ~5K run), two trail runs (Friday Harbor - 8.8K; Redmond Water Preserved - 5/10mile) and the Cascade Crest 100 miler! let's see what the www.ontherunevents.com has listed by the time of Eugene. ============ thank btb - will view ============ ps - I'm with roch; do they give mileage credit for postings?

SteveP- what did you hurt on your run yesterday? How are you feeling today? Enjoy your Monday all!

First of all..Get well quick like. Over the weekend's race, I tighted a strap a little much. It changed my normal gait. 24 hours was not enough time to recoup.

SteveP (again)- waxing for Florida?

Though it wasn't mentioned in the RR, my back hair kept getting caught in the snowshoes. No part of that could possibly be pleasant. As we want to spend family time at the beach, I'd just as soon not let my back hair get tangled in my swim suit.

I'm sure there's bound to be a race somewhere in Seattle during that time, right?

If not... you can always join my family in hiking the wonderland trail around MT. Reineer. It is only 92 miles around the mountain and it would be a great training for those gorgeous legs for your fall marathon. Tetsujin-I am so glad to see that you had a fantastic bike ride yesterday. You are one tough dude my taper boy. Oh!!!!! and ... thank you for the one of the kind "Paraguay Marathon" t-shirt you made for me. You are one terrific friend my dear compadre.

Nice ride and pic, Tet {{{Biketm}}} {{{Soundie's ouchie}}} {{{Steve's waxing}}} First run in a week, 3 miles untimed. About 40 minutes XT, mostly elliptical Still some pre-race twinges lingering, but healing is happening. jjj

Tet, if that's one of the smaller hills, I bow down to you. And I definitely think Dive had the advantage from the eliptical. That sneak. And ya know what? I went back and looked at the picture again and was pretty darn sure I spied my friend and former marathon training partner AY (we even ran Chicago, Boston 04 and Newport together) in the photo, second from front, so I e-mailed him. Sure enough, he hadn't yet seen the photo, and it's him! He's been trying to talk me into the STP bike ride this year...looking at him in the photo, I'm now having second thoughts. CNY -- Seattle daydreaming? you can always e-mail me for daydreaming help... soundrunner 1012 at yahoo dot com (need to put that in my profile). Steve - where's that hairy photo? Waxing only hurts the first time. JJJ -- great to hear that you ran today. (getting very little done today...) 12 smilies. I'm on a record roll.

batboy - no matter what the goddess's say/promise, do not post any photos of you in that swimming suit! jjj - sorry what I said about kilts, . . . not sure about cycling in them though! ==================

"only" and "92 miles" don't make sense to me when talking in the context of running or hiking.

tammy - it's mari's running for joy has nothing to do with distance. In fact, she signed up for this year's Mt. Spokane run when she found out last year on the butterfly girls relay team that the ascent part was "only" the last 14 miles (I "only" made it to mile 30). Maybe we can get her over to this side of the Cascades if Soundie can lead us around her regular routes at Discovery Park and Green Lake. ================== sounder - nice about AY, . . . and be sure to do the STP Seattle-to-Portland ride if possible. ================== . . .