Mornin' kids.

I wonder if they flattened out those hills from Aamos' 150th marathon how much more mileage it would add up to? If I knew the course was that hilly, I wouldn't want to look at the course map either, but then if I knew it was that hilly I wouldn't need to look at the course map and I'd be just as intimidated by the hills either way, but nothing seems to get in Amy's way, so how much difference do a few hills make anyway if you are a wonderwoman who runs 150 marathons?

Just to start the week off on a high note, Twokitty runs 18 and the Wild Child goes 20 like they're both just going down to the corner grocery for a carton of milk when we mere mortals save those long runs for the weekends when we can spend more time taking our time on the roads and then recovering afterwards, and Mike goes a little nuts because no one is there to witness the historic event and counterintuitively runs counter clockwise on the track, messing with the space and time continuim.

6.3 RW miles at J o'clock this morning in thick and drippy weather so I decided to do fartleks because I was so dang slow over the weekend and if I can approximate some speed in this less-than-ideal weather just think of what I can do when it is ideal, if I only knew what ideal was because the weather changes from day to day and whatever the weather is at any point in time might as well be 'ideal' because there are no better options right then. I had a mini bonk in mile 4 when I couldn't pull enough air out of the universe to keep my lungs adequately fed and so had to slow down for a bit because I was getting a bit lightheaded until I got some water at an on-the-way water fountain and then still managed to hit my goal time for my last fartlek, and so felt good about the workout in those less-than-ideal but ideal for today conditions.

Have a greta Tuesday!

Jay

Thanks, Jay, for starting, today's daily and creating a very much anticipated, if not, hopeful "Talk Like Tet Tuesday" thread.  Although, fun, I doubt that anybody will be able to glean any recognition of any resemblance of what anybody is actually trying to say, which, I would imagine, makes it an afore mentioned "Talk Like Tet Tuesday" thread.  It is a perfect day for me to tell Erika, who coincidentally and just so happens to live in Erika Land, that Mikey, who was born in another frozen tundra of No Dak Land back in the days when Boston Billy was living up to his name and, who you all know, also lives in Erika Land, although a bit further south, traveled through her particular spot on his way to Cold Foot with a load of hay as he was helping out his brother-in-law...who I wonder if he has ever run or even swam under the moonlit lights of the Erika Land skies.  Had I known of his impending trek up Erika Land way, it would have been fun to have organized a brief, yet entertaining meet up between him and the Northern Goddess as, I believe, her place is situated about half way between his home and his destination.  Oh well...maybe someday the two will of them will run into each other or perhaps and even more probable I, myself, will make a trip to see her when I voyage north for a visit and to watch my granddaughters in an upcoming race of which I am sure they will be participating in many, especially as they begin their cross country ski training this winter as they will be turning three this September, after all.

Happy Talk Like Tet Tuesday!

Gotta go!  See ya!

Amy - running skirt instead of a race shirt is an awesome idea!

Mike - you crazy guy, you, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!  You have the best abs of any grandpa I know....

Deez - what an amazing job you have!

Jay - sorry, I just don't think I am able to talk like Tet.  He is in a class of his own.  

6 miles for me in 64 degrees.  The sudden drop in temps caused a major fog bank at the river, which was interesting because it was only right by the river, and when I ran a block inland from the water the sun was up.

Volleyball tryouts for DD tonight, only two openings on the team and 5 girls trying for it.  Keeping my fingers crossed.

Happy birthday mikeE
At this stage, every birthday deserves a good antic.
However, it’s really not running backwards.
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nice try jay, mikey for tet-talk but you’ll never be able to run like him.
Kind of painful to plow through though so I’ll never do it again.
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Awesome training run. Just from this morning: have you ever run a 4.5 mile training run that is not only a PR for four months in a row with at least one training run but along the way you got one “awesome” and a “nice shirt” from two young nymphets passing by me so fast it was as if I were stopping to picking up garbage?  Unfortunately, the first was because I was picking up cartons, cans, and other trash left over from the Seafair finale weekend that was interfering with the bike path along the way and the second was a florescent yellow tee from the Torchlight Pirate run that would have made TomW happy.
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or this: congratulations on amy’s 150th marathon but, especially after her Boston-2-BigSur double faster than I’ve run some of my recent singles (7hr/30min) but she’ll have to run another 70-80 marathons to get anywhere close to the 700+ hours it took me to get to my 150 mark to say nothing of the fact that it took me more than 35 years while, accounting for her two-and-a-half year sabbatical time off to volunteer in the South, she’s done the same in less than ten years.

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Did you know she’s been first place AG’s in more than a hundred of them, besting as many as 125 other ladies to say nothing of first place in her sex and overall categories too or that her AG-calculations would have her winning many of her recent races outright too.  I’m so slow that I’m afraid I’ll miss her too in case she’s back sometime for a race run in the Pacific Northwest.

...aamos//........if you get back up this way send me a message,

I haven't been checking in regularly,

but once I get able to walk I'd love to meet you

also,

I had never heard of this race

and

I asked a couple of other runners here,

and they hadn't either,,,so if you had used the ''Blister in the Sun Marathon'' in a post, I wouldnt have recognized it

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30-min pr nb deo cf

..........apparently nobody can talk like tet except mikeE

Just wanted to jump in here and wish Mike a Happy Birthday. You are an inspiration to all us younger runners in more ways than just running. Keep it up! Oh by the way, what did you say in your post?

Aamos - 150 marathons, amazing.

Fartlek day coastwalker - me to.

I give up - not smart enough to talk Tet:-)

Hang in there.

I can't talk like Tet, but I did have to fan myself after reading Enke

Snork! Kevin, you crack me up! And yes, so very happy for Enke, and it because pretty obvious the main subject of her post was not Remi. Nice run for you, Enke!

Mike, you missed your calling. Anyone who can put together so many long run-on sentences with multiple subjects in each really should have been an attorney! Happy birthday to you, you scandalous track violator, you. Now really though, I would be more impressed if there were witnesses.

That Amy is nothing short of amazing. Thanks for the write up, Tet, as if we need a reminder of her awesomeness. But then again, that Deez is no slouch either! Where would we all be without awesome labor/delivery nurses??

Holly, be careful what you wish for. That DD of yours always finds plenty of things to keep YOU very busy, but I think that's jtwyli.

Carolyn, that's too bad that you have to deal with those family dynamics. But, as long as everyone gets what they want (you and your parents, a visit; your DH, time alone with the dogs) then I guess it's not so bad. You could force them together and see what happens (why do I think of Holly's DD stuffing the dog and cat together in something, saying they need to learn to get along??).

An absolutely gorgeous day here, and I'm stuck at work. I'm gonna whine about that, at least to myself, because we really have so few of these days left. Clear sunny skies, virtually no wind, no smoke, and temps in the low 80's. Just perfect. And, of course, by the weekend it's supposed to cloud over and temps in the upper 60's, maybe 70. This working nonsense really gets in the way of enjoying the best of summer!

AND I have a meeting at one and too many phone calls this morning so I have to wait to go run till later. At least then it'll be nice and toasty and I'll get good n' sweaty to come back to work for an hour before going home.

I spent last weekend in Ludington at our annual family reunion.  It was a great time but I didn't run at all and only scanned the posts when I got home yesterday.  I see Steve was in Ludington while I was there.  Steve, are your wife and family at the State Park?  That Sunday evening storm was something.  That morning, 6 of us were out on a charter fishing boat.  The waves got pretty serious before we got back in around 11am.

Aamos, congrats on number 150.

Holly, in reference to your husband working so much overtime, I understand both sides.  Us guys are inclined to be concerned about our family's financial stability and show we care by working hard to help support them.  However, as I got past being his age many years ago and have the kids grown and out on their own, I have started to look at things more like you do.  A few extra dollars in the bank don't make up for missing milestones in the lives of your family because you are gone working or have ruined your health by working too hard.  It's important to take care of yourself so you increase the chances of being around to enjoy such things as graduations, weddings, grandkids, etc.

Mike, happy birthday.  Holly, good luck to your daughter on tonight's try outs.

This morning, it was in the high 50s and almost calm.  I got in 6 terribly slow miles.

After my run, my sister called that the facility where our mother lives is going to move her from the dementia area to the nursing home area on Thursday.  Therefore, tomorrow I will be heading back to Ludingtonl

A good day and good runs for all.

TomS