Thanks, Ev!  I had no idea.  I never think to review my own log.

Congrats, Cindy.  And Joe's closing in on 2500.  Holy moly.

Good Luck Arla! Nice goodies too.

WTG Cindy and Leslie! Those hills are not mere pimples on the road like around here.

Arla - You're the HM Queen!  We need to figure out a running shirt for you.  Hmmmm - something with a tiara . . .

Good luck this weekend, and thank you, Ev, for pointing out her spectacular mileage accumulation thus far this year.

Potty Party........ Leslie, did you say you've had a potty party at your house.  Too much information.

A nice easy 6er yesterday late afteroon.  The weather......let's talk about the weather (my second favorite topic of discussion).  the weather yesterday was a stunner.  Crystal clear blue skies ("sky" seems more appropriate....I mean, hey, there's only one) temp about 57ish, with nearly calm winds (or "wind").  No one but me on the trails and I saw 24 deer....most of them in one location. 

It's typical that I'll see a few deer nearly evryday I run.  The most, till now, that I've seen together is about 12.  But yesterday I came around the barn and there they were, all grouped up, munching on some wheat sprouts. 

Have a fun weekend, evryone.

Hey, check out my latest 5K (last weekend). Run For Shelter

 http://www.woodwardnews.net/multimedia/local_story_279164703.html?keyword=topstory

Look for me at about 2:16 into the video clip. 

Very cool, Ev!  Thanks for sharing the video and your wonderful run.

Cindy - Did you just move kids out of your house?!?  You are definitely crazy, lady.  A good mom, but crazy.

16 trail miles this morning in 4:18.  My legs are very tired.  Going from 10 last Saturday to 16 this Saturday, then really working the hills pretty much did me in.  Unfortunately, we got waylayed about halfway through by a cop giving people tickets for not having their dogs on leashes.  We were stopped for at least 5 minutes for that one.

The story - we run in the Arcata Forest, and even though the signs say dogs must be leashed, it's not something any 99.99% of the people adhere to.  We all see each other all the time, and all the dogs are friends.  We do the majority of our run on the side where there are more people actually exercising, as opposed to the side where there are lots of vagrants.  However, a couple of months ago, we started venturing over to the "dark side" just to give us a change of scenery. (Vagrants are huge problem in Humboldt County, and particularly in Arcata.)

Today, as we were passing through the park over there, a cop was giving a group of vagrants tickets for not having their dogs on leases (we're talking 6 or 7 dogs).  According to the cop, they had received complaints that morning about these people.  Well, here we come through with Charlie Dog, and the cop yells, "You're dog needs to be on a leash."  Us: "Okay!"  Well, I guess one of the vagrants asked him why he wasn't ticketing us when they got tickets.  Soooo, he yelled to us again, we stopped, and Karen got a ticket.  She wasn't upset 'cause like she told him, we were in the wrong.  He said he didn't want to give her a ticket 'cause he understood that we can't run (well, she and Coach couldn't run) 24 miles with a dog on a leash and would've let us off with a warning, but . . . .  WE actually felt bad for the cop 'cause he felt bad about having to give Karen a ticket. 

Anyway - moral of the story: Carry a leash with us from now on and stay away from the vagrants.

MTA: Hey - I burned 1594 calories today!!  Wee haw!