Morning Tom, and everyone to follow.

Some good racing yesterday by TSelbes, Holly, Wildchild and IBUB. A PB and 2 PWs, but good efforts all around. Nice to see some volunteering at races too - volunteers are the life blood of every race.

Gotta watch out for those older racers - they mean business!

Sorry you had to retype your post, Mike, but it (as always) made for interesting reading of an impressive workout, and other stuff too.

Good luck, and have fun with door #3, Enke!

Nice Andy Brown reference, Tammy!

We had good friends, both in their 80s, over for dinner last night, and had a great time. We finished the last of our fresh-from-the-boat scallops, accompanied by grill-roasted veggies. DW made GF ice cream pie for dessert which topped things off deliciously.

I was out at 4 o'fog this morning for a 14.1 mi. racewalking workout. Weird, misty, diffused light in the fog made me feel like I was on the moors in Sherlock Holmes' England. There was no sunrise, just a gradual lightening of the sky and lifting of the fog. At mile 11, I passed 3 young deer grazing in a yard. They acknowledged my existence and kept grazing. No fear at all. At mile 12, I passed a yard with about 20 wild turkey searching for breakfast. There were 5 more turkeys about 3/4 of a mile further up the road. Mr. Garmin said I burned off about 1,100 calories this morning. I had a nice big omlette with home fries at our favorite dive to start to replenish.

Have a greta Sunday!

Jay

Another four miler with my soles on the first little coatings of fallen leaves of the year (from yesterday’s heavy rainstorm) on the bike paths and under the waning moon (just like my running) for this month’s fourth such outing and a rare month with training miles (16) exceeding event miles (13.1) that hasn’t happened since IM training days in 2005. Still hasn’t happened for an entire year though.
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As usual, the goddesses far exceeded the rest of our running, especially with two 50-K’s.  Congratulations for two new PB 50K PW’s. However, there’s still five more hours to go to catch me. .
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Holly, after what you’ve been through I hope your disappointment doesn’t mean you were expecting a PR or something.  It’s how you define it but, considering what you’ve just been through, your not only getting to the start but also finishing strong, healthy, refreshed and rejuvenated to move on will probably be one of the best PR’s of your life. I wish I could run that kind of a course like that again.

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ps tom - if you're falling because you have special cycling shoes that clip into the pedals (and you're not trying to be competitive), just regular tennis shoes, if that, with regular pedals (and the slip-in toe cages) provide just as much exercise, if not more, and way more fun.  good luck.

.....ribbs//.........Dalton.Ga is the Carpet Capitol of the world,,,,,,,it's across the state line from TN

IBleed, nice half with PR.  wild, that was quite the 50K trail race with big elevation changes.  Jay, nice 14.1  miles in the fog and with the wildlife.

This morning, it was about 60° and there was a light wind.  I did 3 miles at a 10:54 pace.

A good day and good runs for all.

TomS

The inaugural Mountain Lakes 100 . . . . . E-P-I-C.  The satellite pic attached - hopefully it is still showing the incredible weather hitting that area.  The race called around 8:30 p.m. yesterday due to extremely hazardous conditions - rain, sleet, snow, driving winds with gusts of up to 40 mph.  Two vehicles possibly totaled due to trees falling on them.  It was absolutely incredible.  My hat's off to the race directors for having a fantastic evacuation plan in place to get the runners and volunteers out of the area in an orderly fashion, and to the runners for their patience as everyone at the various aid stations did their best to keep them warm.  Lots of runners with varying degrees of hypothermia, but the RDs had sleeping bags and space blankets for each aid station.  Finally got back to our vehicle/camp site around 2:00 a.m. - exhausted and relieved that everyone was safe and sound.

Lots more to tell, but right now I am tired.  Yack atcha later ~

greetings all.  a little late posting of this morning's run.

It was a three lap special just like Tramps yesterday.   Well, the loops were less than half as long.  Oh, there was very little in the way of hills.  And I guess my time was QUITE a bit slower.  But other than that, just like it.  9.4 miles at 9:39 pace for three laps around the lake.

DW and I spent the afternoon in Salem looking at the last day of the Faberge exhibit at the Peabody-Essex.  We started out with a great breakfast at a little hole in the wall.  The pieces on display were amazing--very impressive what you can do with the backing and money of a Czar or two.  Only a few of the fancy eggs, though, so just a little disappointing.

Leslie - Wow!  That sounds like everyone's nightmare race conditions, but what an awesome race director to have the back-up plans in place to get everyone safely off the course and cared-for.

Enke - do we get more details? Or do you want to wait a bit?  Either way I am so happy to hear you are having fun. 

Mariposai - your plum chutney sounds wonderful!

I am slowly going through my mom's things with my SD to sort out what to keep, what to throw out, what to donate to charity.  A lifetime's collection of stuff, it will take a while.  Tonight's job was shoes, nearly 35 pairs.  We girls do love our shoes.