I'll get the thread started. If you posted your intro in yesterday's daily, please just copy/paste it here if you'd like.  And then others can add an intro here. It'll be nice to re-read the ones from friends we've all known a long time, and a great place for new master runners to get familiar with who we are (or maybe scare them away before they even come out of lurk mode??!) 

Someone can pin this to the top right? Holly?

Hi, I'm Paul. I live in a suburb of OKC. DW & I have been married for 40 years. My daughter lives in Seattle area with her husband & 2 kids so I get up that way a lot. My son lives in Michigan so I get up there a couple of times a year. We also have a close relationship with an exchange student we hosted from France back in 2000 and we visit her family annually. Both DW & I like to travel and I can generally find a race to run wherever we are in the world. I've been retired for a couple of years now & love it. I call DW my corporate sponsor but she is starting to consider retirement. 

I think I'm the last Oklahoman still around. Opie not only doesn't post in here anymore, but he moved to New Mexico. I haven't seen evryday post since early this year.

I started running in 2004 & probably found the CR forums sometime in 2005. My posting to the daily is a bit irregular & usually fairly brief. I rarely miss posting on Holly's 40/40 weekly thread. And I don't think I've ever missed a monthly mileage thread (wildchild & milktruck). I've met a lot of y'all irl & and am Facebook friends with quite a few others that no longer frequent RA. 

Paul

Hi!

I'm Tammy. I live in Grants Pass. And that's how I cleverly came up with my handle 

I'm 50, started posted in the Boomers & Beyond forum on Coolrunning when I was 40 (minus 3 or 4 mos. So I cheated).   I didn't start running until I was almost 40 also, although I did spend about a year running at age 30 when I lived in Seattle and did a few of the famed short distance races like their St. Paddy's day race and Beat the Bridge run.  

So, I'm married for 18 yrs, and we have one son, 17 yrs old, current tennis player, but had a sweet but short running career in middle school and as a freshman.  So, I'm now the lone runner in the family but my DH does like to attend some of my races, as long as weather is nice, it's not too early in the morning, and it's not too far away . . . so he pretty much doesn't go to many races  

I'm not a heavy duty mileage runner but aim for between 80-90 miles per month. Haven't hit it yet this year though but I keep trying. 

I've run anything from 5K's to marathons, but my favorite distance is a half. Marathon training just takes too much time and I'm spread thin as it is. 

I work FT in criminal defense law, am on board of directors of an animal related advocacy non-profit, coach middle school cross country, and enjoy doing all that "old fashioned" family stuff like growing our own food, making things from scratch, canning or drying foods, etc.

oh, and spend as much time as I can with my 2 black labs (siblings) that are 6 and our senior black lab rescue who is 12.

I’m Jay, and I live with DW near the short (18 mi.) coastline of NH, where we’ve lived since ’98. We’ve been married for 38 years, and have no kids (DW is one of 14, so we have oodles of relatives who have oodles of kids we can play with and spoil), but we do have a cat. I’m looking forward to joining a new age group next year. I’m semi-retired (OK - mostly retired) from our business that makes/markets products for dentists to use when treating patients with special needs. DW describes me as a ‘civic slave’ because I do a bit of volunteer work. I started running in ’89 on a bet, and changed to racewalking in ’03 after foot surgery. These nice folks let me hang out here anyway because I suppose it is good (and weird) to have a token racewalker. Twocat even let me join Rosie's (not Holly's new pup) team for the Reach The Beach Relay twice, and you should do it if you haven't because it's a blast. I do my workouts at 4am because that is the only time of the day that I can consistently call my own. I’ve been part of this group since the CoolRunning days, and am delighted to know you great people who populate this space, and to have had the great pleasure of meeting a few of you in real life.

I’m Mike E (aka Mike) and I have the usual old story that might best be told like this:

It’s the story of a lovely lady

Who was bringing up a boy a two young girls.

All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,

And, yes, the youngest one did, in fact, have curls.

It’s the story, of a man named Mike E,

Who was busy with three kids of his own,

It was the four of them, living all together,

Yet, sometimes, Mike felt all alone.

Till the one day when the lady met this fellow

And they knew it was much more than a hunch,

That this group must somehow form a family.

That's the way we all became the Evans Bunch.

The Evans Bunch, The Evans Bunch,

That's the way we became the Evans Bunch.

Yes, the story may sound like a familiar TV show...and while Mr. Brady and I might have the same first names—that is where the similarities stop. Not only was I not smart enough to always have the answers to all the issues that came up like Mike Brady did, but I was also not smart enough to quit having kids! We had two more boys together and then we were another popular TV sitcom...Eight is Enough...and, fortunately, I am not familiar with their jingle...

We are, also, now “blessed” with 18 grandkids and 1 great grand kid...our kids learned nothing from us!

And, when I'm not playing the role of a dad or grandpa, I like to run...actually, I love to run.  I have run my entire life.  My mom always liked to tell the story of, when I was an infant, they would stand me up to try to get me to walk, but I would take off running and fall down.  So it took me forever to learn how to walk.  I loved listening to her tell that story because she would always laugh.

I am, currently, trying to run marathons in all 50 states + DC and have 10 marathons to go.  I have been very fortunate to have run 4 marathons with 2 of my boys.  Hey!  I think I have a couple of pictures to share.  Are we allowed to share pictures?

This is Mikey and me at the finish of the 1998 Twin Cities Marathon.  Mikey's 1st marathon.

And here is Ryan and me running together at the Rocket City Marathon in 2013.  We always love running together and I think this picture shows it.

Okay--that's enough about me.

• I come from a long line of Québécois peasants and was born and raised in northern New Hampshire, which may explain my fondness for hockey and my aversion to warm-weather running. I went to school in Boston, spent a few years in NYC, and--somewhat inexplicably--have lived in Virginia for a long time, first in Richmond and then mid-way between Richmond and Washington, DC. 
• Self-employed/semi-retired, happily married forever, child-free.
• Hockey as a kid.  Active but not athletic as an adult. 
• My very first race of any sort was the 1996 Richmond Marathon....back when they had relay teams with 6.5 mile segments. (A colleague recruited me to fill an open spot even though I'd never run 6.5 miles in my life.) I ran off and on---mostly off--for a few years but it didn't stick. 
• A decade later, now in my mid-40s with a slowing metabolism, I hit 170 pounds and it was a wake up call. I started running more deliberately to lose a few pounds. The growth of running information on the internet at the time really helped me learn the basics and run more sensibly.  In late 2004 (?), I joined a running forum called CoolRunning; the perfect environment for an introvert who likes to write. The people in the Masters sub-forum were especially friendly, unpretentious, and helpful. However, they often ran marathons, which just seemed crazy and something I'd never, ever want to do.
• I ran my first marathon in 2006 (Richmond again), proving that your mother was right to be concerned about who you hung around with.  Cool Running was bought out by Active (2007?), which ruined it with in-your-face advertising and tone-deaf management, among other things.  Eventually some of us migrated here to Eric's excellent site, Running Ahead.
• After having run regularly for about a decade, in 2014 I took on a temporary project that involved a time-sucking commute and my running--and participation here--floundered quite a bit. That gig wrapped up late 2016 and I've been trying to run and participate here more regularly again.
• I like the simplicity of running, so I try to keep things simple. I don't care much about gear.  I don't travel much to races and I enjoy small local ones best. I'm a perennial mid-packer without a lot of natural speed but I race to train.  That is, signing up for a race scares motivates me to adopt a plan and train regularly. Rather than just do races for fun, I like to limit the number of races I do, prepare as best as I can, and see how well I can execute my plan. That, to me, is fun.
• A sad postscript: diagnosed with multiple meniscus tears in summer of '17; distance running days are over.  Took up a bit of cycling for exercise and hope to mix in some short runs again to keep it interesting.

Liz:  Civil Servant for the feds.  Started posting on coolrunning then came to RA when coolrunning blew up.  Live in Hot springs Village AR.  Did live in DC when I started posting.  Single, no kids, 2 cats and a dog.  Boring boring boring   Getting ready to retire soon...(like this year or next).  I like trail running the best, street running 2nd best.  Have met up with sooooo many of you and had a blast.  Hope those of you I've hung out with can say the same 

Hi, I'm Holly- fairly new as a Master's runner. (I'm 41). Lots of stops and starts in my running game over the last 20 years. I'll chalk that up to 4 pregnancies and numerous injuries. I've run every distance but ultras and have landed right back on the 5k as my favorite distance. I've recently gotten into cross training after I stubbornly resisted for a long time- and what do you know, I'm currently injury free and hit a PR in December. Now I'm wondering... how much can I improve my times at 41 years old? I'm going to try! Here goes..!