Good morning trailers!

I ended up running a little over 7 around the neighborhood yesterday.  It was awful.  Traffic is all screwed up due to a water main break on a heavily travelled road, which sent everyone onto the back streets (which are usually nice and calm).  I stopped counting the # of times I almost got hit...at least 5X.  Once I was about 2 steps away from being a hood ornament.  Also I ended up in a yelling match with some jerk who parked his contractor's truck all the way over the sidewalk...not usually a big deal but the property hasn't mowed the lawn yet so I had to wade through waist high grass.  Street parking is legal and there were plenty of spots.  OK that's my non-trail running vent.  I am in need of some trail therapy...maybe tomorrow.

QOTD: What's the worst car you ever owned/drove?

I had a teal '93 Honda Civic hatchback in college.  The cooling fan didn't work on it so it was prone to overheating and using the A/C was not an option.  It was making a clunking noise in the suspension and when I got it on a lift we found out that there was only 1 of 3 bolts holding the control arm in place...the last bolt was stripped and had almost pulled out.  The home repair on that involved a welder and was not really a legitimate fix.  I ended up selling it for $300.

Slogged, and I mean slogged, thru about 5 miles this morning.  At 5am it was 79 deg, and freaking humid.  I saw a few other runners today we all just grunted "hello", nobody was happy.  Except the big hairy spider that was hitching a ride on my shorts (the thing blew it when it crawled up to my stomach), just brushed 'em off though.

qotd:  The worst one was a Chevy Nova (I think about a '73).  It was a little bit "sported up", well sort of anyway, had nice rims and tires.  Anyway I think it was a bit "old and tired" when I bought it and never did run that well.  I was living in Brooklyn at the time and I didn't mind parking it on the street though.

Morning all!  yesterday's quote

 

Hill repeats this afternoon- most likely in the rain 

 

I almost made it w/o a drop, about a mile to go the clouds just unloaded- looked like a drowned rat when I was done

supposed to rain all day today, so going to do a combo of dreadmill and stairs- a mile on each, repeat for 6 miles

qotd: I've been fortunate with vehicles (knock on wood), but I did have one Subaru GL (circa late 70's) that gave me a lot of trouble- stranded w/ a broken timing chain in the dead of winter, numerous suspension problems- certainly not due to me trying to go places where only trucks should be going and eventually a blown engine

I've since owned four Subarus and all have been pretty solid vehicles

Morning all!

Got in a double yesterday afternoon. First a 4 mile, 1000ft gain hike with DS in the pack(~30lbs pack weight). Even saw one of those vicious black bears cross the road right near the trail head. Second bear sighting of the year.

Then a quick 4 miler around the hood at dark. Felt pretty sluggish since I hadn't eaten dinner yet. Have 6 planned for tonight

QOTD: I'm not sure I can even answer this since I've been lucky enough to like all my vehicles so far. But I suppose my "worst" was my first, a 91' Toyota 4X4 pickup. Only complaint was it was a bit gutless, but I wouldn't complain much if I had to give up my current ride for my first.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Morning to all.  Hot and humid here today.  Got in 4 easy trail miles.  Legs feel pretty good, left foot still a bit sore but recovering.

QOTD:  1978 Ford Pinto.  It was orange and looked like a pumpkin.

Got in a nice relaxing 5.5 with DW. Legs feel great after a tough weekend in northern NM.

QOTD: I shared an old school '85 Toyota corolla

Something very rare happened: my schedule changed for the better! I'm able to do my long run tomorrow, which means today will be high-intensity cardio crosstraining.

QOTD: Volvo V40. Bought it with 5000 miles on it, and it was a total lemon. An electrical issue in the wiring behind the wheel would short-circuit the whole car when I used the blinkers. It would remain off for a few minutes before I could turn it on again. It took the Volvo repair shop three visits to find the issue. The brakes also rusted shut when the car was less than a year old. Etc, etc. Never again Volvo.

It was raining cats and dogs when I got up this morning, so I may run tonight. But I will probably dog it off until tomorrow. I have so much going on at work and with the town that I have just been crashing every night for the last week or so. My running is the worst it has been in years. But, I am happy to be healthy... I hope to get back in full swing by the weekend.

QOTD: I have never really had a terrible vehicle, but I did have one break down on me in 95 degree heat on the interstate one day. I was student teaching and also worked at the university as a grad assistant, even though I wasn't a grad student at the time... Anyway, I managed the married housing complex as what they called a resident manager, tuition paid plus a stipend. At times, I had to evict people. Well, on the day I broke down on the interstate, I started walking. Suddenly, a truck that I fully expected Fred Sanford or Lamont Sanford to be driving pulled over. Boy, was I relieved... until I got up to the passenger side window. It was the people I had recently evicted who were headed back to the university to move their stuff out of the apartment. I spent the 20 mile ride apologizing for having to evict them. They laughed and said they understood that it wasn't me who was personally evicting them. The funniest part was that the lady said, "You didn't even have to ask us where we were headed..." I still felt like a piece of crap. My, then brother in law, and I fixed the truck that night. It needed an alternator.