Good Morning coastwalker!  Smart move on the workout (well, stacking wood is a work-out,but you know what I mean---sleep is good!)

As someone with a birthday on 9/11 and married to someone who was born on this day and in that particular year---Mr. CNYrunner is 50 years-old today (born hours before the tragic event in Dallas)--- we choose to celebrate life, especially when the media is swirling all around us ---all week, all month, and all year. This is not to suggest that we aren’t mourning loss, but I don’t want my DH to feel he can’t celebrate his milestone day today.

C-R cracked me up yesterday when he said he thinks about his FB posts in terms of grandmotherly approval.  I just go ahead and put my grandmother on Facebook! Yesterday was super-granny’s 103^rd birthday and I can’t wait to show her all the birthday wishes that grew and grew all day yesterday on my FB page.  Thanks to all who posted. Her short- term memory is basically gone now, but her recall of years past---from about 1915 onward (when she was five years-old) is sharp and clear.

Speaking of FB----bear in mind that sites like this one, right here at RA are also quite public---any stalker or lurker can grab your family photos and also just google your handle or real name and find all your posts and personal details----I know this from experience---the training log might be password protected, but this is an open site---be careful.

I also cracked up at C-R’s 80s music reference. I spend a fair amount of time on the road and a good portion in my car. I have satellite radio and sometimes listen to the “progressive 80s station”----Modern English, The Alarm, Thompson Twins, New Order, Bronski Beat etc. Feels like freshman year in college all over again….ack! or now it’s the background music for margarine commercials (Modern English---“I'll melt with you” or heard while waiting for the dentist (Spandau Ballet just as the plaque scraping started!)

Oh yeah! Running…..after a week of every other day running, I am running  a bit more this week, but still just playing and not training.  I ran with Iron J this morning in the ebbing rain----11.6 miles of chatter and comparing kiddo applying to college notes (her eldest kiddo is two weeks older than mine).  Good run and now on to to the continued birthday fun. I hadn’t been born on this date 50 years ago and my M and D were in Switzerland where my father was working and wrapping up a Fulbright fellowship. I have the telegram he received from the then Senator Kennedy in 1957 congratulating him on his Fulbright since he’d be representing MA.

Good Luck to all those racing over the weekend and TGIF!

Oh and another shout-out to lamerunner and her race committee members for the Manchester marathon---not only is the race well organized and quite inexpensive for what you get in return (even official race photos are included in the price of entry!)----the age group awards are awesome. I was on the road yesterday and came home to a mail pile that included my 3rd place 45-49 prize----a signed copy of "26.2"----autographed by Kathrine Switzer and husband Roger Robinson. Far better than any medal or trophy and something I'll treasure!

Happy 103rd Birthday to Super-Granny!  I hope I look as good at 73 as she does at 103.  Amazing.

Bill

I've had a few, "what was I thinking" moments on FB, mostly involving friending folks from my 40th reunion that I hadn't seen in 40 years.  Being a liberal, but willing to laugh at them or look at other views, some of the opposite views were hard to deal with, even using Leslie's scroll by technique.  So the "Hide " function can be useful without the extreme of unfriending.

anyway, considering some of the things aired here, I don't think many are building glamorous faux online personalities here.    But there's enough real life included to feel a real connection to folks.  For those of us lucky enough to meet IRL, the experience tells us that there is substance and people worth calling friends underneath the "imaginary" friends online.  Not to mention, there's a good likelihood that I wouldn't still be running and know I wouldn't have run a marathon without the peer pressure and I'm grateful for that.

Oh, I didn't run this morning.  Peer pressure will only get you so far.

celebrate life - definitely the way to go CNY and happy bday super granny

ran 4 drippy miles - i thought the rain had let up, so kept going & at the point of no return, i got drenched.

good luck racers and happy running, walking, and cross-training!

marj

Good morning, and Happy Friday.  Cold and rainy here; hoping some of this crud is snow up north. DS VERY excited about the upcoming ski camp and missing next week of school ( they only have school Monday and Tuesday anyway).  We are really hoping he has a good season after lots of frustrations last year. He has been doing his dry land training pretty diligently and has new equipment so we hope there won't be all that pre-releasing he went through..

This morning I ran an easy 6.5 around town, some rain but lighter thankfully than what is coming down now. Hoping for a swim later. Yesterday I ran about 8 on the rail trail in very chilly but sunny conditions.

Jay, if we are talking about the race in October, the Maine Coast Marathon does have a half. I have run the full marathon a few times but never the half; the races start together and the half racers then turn off halfway out; often I wanted to be them... also, glad your team had a nice dinner out.

Karin, glad you liked the book. Hope others do too.  I bought a paperback version at the expo but then gave it to a friend for her birthday, so I need to find another one.

Interesting comments re FB. I came to it pretty late and don't put a lot on there, nor anything terribly personal,  but I am not clever enough to come up with any different persona; what you see is pretty much what you get. Lots of hiking pictures... the cats get in there now and then when I am bored. I am careful about some aspects of it, don't usually friend folks I work with currently, but I also figure if someone wanted to find it, they probably could.  There are lots of different FB styles I have noticed; some use it to promote a business and have very little of a personal nature ( or have multiple pages maybe); others seem to post every brain fart. I do like seeing pictures of my DD and her friends, though she seems to use it much less than when she was younger and I have reconnected with a couple of HS friends that way, which has been fun.

I agree on the sadness of this day; I was almost three and my mother was ironing when the news came on the radio... so I guess it is true we all knew where we were. Interesting discussions on public radio this week.

Happy Friday; anyone racing this weekend?

tamales and pico de gallo! mmmm!

got in a quick 3 mile run last night. It sure gets dark fast! I was wearing my lighted vest and headlamp though.  I might try and get in another short run tonight too (while David finishing up bball practice). Starting today, he's on a 10 day break. He used to not like school breaks, but now he looks forward to them. Schools a lot tougher now so he loves the mental break he gets. Still pulling straight A's though throughout his school career. 2 more trimesters to go and he's off to high school. He's really hoping to keep his 4.0 thru middle school.

FB is a social outlet for me and a place where I can stalk the dual personalities of Ribs. and keep in touch with long distance family members, old highschool friends, running friends - both local and my long distance "virtual" friends here.  With my privacy settings, I think FB is a more private venue than this public forum, but I don't post anything that could potentially come back to bite me in the butt anyways.

after today, I'm on vacation all next week also. Have a variety of things I want to get accomplished at home, but other than that, I don't really have any plans - other than sleeping in, morning walks with the dogs on the trails, some afternoon runs when it warms up a bit. And maybe start making a dent in our semi-kitchen updating by starting with light fixtures and pricing out new granite-like counters.

On FB all I do is post about travel, running and food.  I sure hope there is more to me than that!  Well, I guess just those three would not be so bad. 

CNYrunner your idea of "not training" would kill most people!

No FB posting for me today as I am not traveling, running or cooking today.  I have a long time friend of mine spending the day here at work and we are going to dinner together tonight.  The restaurant we have booked is quite good so I am looking forward to the evening.  This morning was spent on the elliptical and then weights and such.