The "Penguin" daily threads were originally conceived to emphasize that all members of the community have a place on the boards. Encouragement, motivation, a little love nip (you will love one, give it a try!) or even a little kick in the pants when needed -- it can happen here. Basically, we celebrate just getting out there and moving our tails! What is "slow"? "Slow" is a perception but one of the common benchmarks is the 10:00/mi pace; but there's no firm line. In fact, there are many of us that have slipped past this, and just hope that no one notices and revokes their "igloo privileges." And some penguins don't run at all, we just hang out for the company! It can be confusing for the forum newbies, but we're not one of the teams in any of the fine games. It's a totally open group, so stop lurking, post an introduction of yourself dive in and join the fun! No application necessary! There might even be a lovely picture for Scotty (we love pics!)
At least, some of us are. Cold front went through last night, so our high today will be 77. Yay! Right now it's really windy, so not great for running, but I'll get outside one way or another.
Singer who runs a smidge
Having a slightly psycho day. First my car tells me that an oil change is due soon, although the little sticker says it's 1500 miles off yet. Then the place where I usually get gas is all blocked off because they just paved. So I have to go down the road a ways to get gas. I think, although I'm not sure, that when I restarted my car after gassing up, it didn't show me the oil change warning. But when I got to work and turned my car off, it said the battery in the key fob was low.
Perhaps I'm generating some kind of weird electrical field?
Anyway, chorus rehearsal tonight!
Howdy, Ginny!! It's windy here too, but I will absolutely trade heat for wind.
When it's all said and done, no one remembers how far we have run. The only thing that matters is how we have loved.
Return To Racing
4.5 running group. Very slow.
Heading downtown for lunch with DD2 on the Chicago Riverwalk.
Afternoon! I have 7 with 2 at MP because yesterday was 4 and I got confused.
Ginny, so jealous. We are about to hit feels like 100F.
Damaris
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Still doing dorm move in stuff. It's kind of chopped up because Cypress is in this pre-orientation program and had class part of yesterday and most of today. So we couldn't just power through and get done yesterday.
I cut my MP run short this morning. Mostly wasn't feeling it in the stuffy hotel gym, plus I knew we were short on time and still had a busy day coming up. Still got a good workout in.