2.1 total miles.  Tried the hotel treadmill, but the earphones seemed to be shocking me a little and the ceiling was low. Expensive Hyatt, but still..... Went outside and found the path after a few blocks of traffic.

The banning was pretty spectacular.  I wasn't a fan favorite because this was a forum where you really weren't allowed to do anything but express agreement and sympathy.  With some exceptions (and friends I still have), it was not a running group and they wanted to just complain about how fat and unmotivated they were.  There were particular whines EVERY SINGLE DAY from specific posters.  I made some gentle suggestions on occasion that were not well received.  There wa a Queen of the Forum and my final downfall was that I pissed her off by suggesting that she consider other options to benzodiazepines medication since it was highly addictive and that I had some family members who got caught up in it.  (Basically xanax, Klonopin etc).     She exploded on me and said something very ugly and untrue about one of my family members which amounted to libel.  I asked her to take it down or else she would be receiving a letter from me.  She took it down, but banned me.   It upset a lot of people, but it was truly time for me to go.   My daughter (not the person who was libeled) was horrified and also left the group.  She had been a valued member.   Basically, it was a completely dysfunctional group, which is a shame since it didn't start out that way.  We've had a meetup every year and I still value the friendships I made.     I guess it's a "take what you need and leave the rest" sort of thing.      I absolutely assure you that you would have found this group somewhere between insane and childish.  

ksa - stay here, we're an accepting group of people with only a few rules..

about a week ago, we said pack your bags for a meet-up of the burgs' - pittsburgh & gettysburg by way of indiana (cincinnati area)

7 awesome miles for a run you want to bottle - it was easy and felt good -no paper bags in sight!

happy friday and good luck to the racers and relay team

marj

89f feels like 99f at noon and I head out for a little run.  It was tough...2.5 miles and I didn't die.  Success!!!

We don't need no stinkin' rules. Except when Twocat starts yelling about that running in the rain thing, and Ribs used to fine people for tying their jackets around their waists. And something about sending tomwhite fudge, but it's all pretty confusing.  I've never been good with rules.

Jlynne, all I can say is you must be a real golf fan. There's no way in hell you could even pay me to do that. But then again, sounds like there's lots of people who do go so I don't have to. Scary about the blimp, I saw something briefly on the news.

Took today off from work, will also take next Friday, just to make sure summer doesn't pass me by while I work in an office. And wouldn't you know it, the weather isn't that great. Oh well, it's all good. I'm packing up the recycling to clean out the house a bit, including DS2's ancient iMac that my parents gave him maybe 6 years ago? It was old then... and I don't think he ever used it. We have a community electronics recycling the third Friday/Saturday of the month and so today is the day.

Will run a little bit later, but trying to "save" my legs for the 10k tomorrow night.

Look it is NOT my rule! It is in the running rule book. If you do not like it take it up with the running rule book committee. 

catwhoorg since you may not have read the book, rule #1 says, "No running in the rain!"© It does offer options. Just because it is raining does not mean all running everywhere is banned. Otherwise nobody could ever run! Not only is it 5 o'clock somewhere it is raining somewhere. In the rain just means where you are. Now if you are in a building it is not raining, which is why the TM was invented.

Speaking, or writing, of not running, I did not run today. Just an hour on the elliptical. Then all day banging my head trying to figure out why my computer code was producing rubbish for datasets. Finally, finally(!) figured it out. Rather got around the problem. I am still stumped as to why the other code did not work. But working is working and I will take it.

Papa henry / marj -
My great-grandfather used to live
in Harrisburg, .  . but it wasn’t the capital of Pennsylvania.

 I pissed her off by suggesting that she consider other options to benzodiazepines medication since it was highly addictive and that I had some family members who got caught up in it. 

ksa - stay here, we're an accepting group of people with only a few rules..

Too bad for KSA’s “friends.”  
As indicated on NPR this morning when the subject stated one’s health was “nobody else’s business,” the truth hurts. Not that I’ve ever had to say the same about minding your own business to some less accepting people outside this forum commenting on my various idiosyncratic aversions, e.g. to running shoes, training, electronic / digital gadgets, etc,
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However, maybe KSA’s 40 years of superior running, AG awards, etc.’ll entice back others we miss with their memory banks back to the early days, and before, of the running boom, etc. I hope so.
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For those who ran it in the 2009 then-Boomer

reunion I missed by being in Japan,

this weekend’s annual Seattle Rock’n’Roll’ll
be the first of the Seattle marathons to be kicked
off the express lanes of the Lake Washington floating
bridges by the expanding light rail expansion to Bellevue

and Redmond. The R’n’R’s has also been changed

from Saturdays to Sunday.
New route’ll be from UW Husky Stadium for about ten miles

along Lake Washington to the same Seward Park the races’ll

all still run around, then return to a Seahawks Stadium finish downtown.
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Weekend weather is supposed to improve over the regular

weather I experienced on this morning's fiver but, since I don’t care

about the weather or not one-way-or-the other, I wouldn’t care an iota

anyway even if I were running.

ps - cattywhoops - anyone who's run in it for 40 years

or more and never once whined even though

it been really bad sometimes, is exempt

from twocat's no-running-in-the-rain rule.

pps - we call it the twocat rule since

there are no other citations to it.
 
ooos jeanne - yesterday’s Bing.com featured Tour-of-America’s cyclists near Fond du Lac.

The odd thing was that she was ASKING for suggestions on meds that she could take to alleviate some anxiety (justified) over what turned out to be a colon cancer diagnosis.  She didn't yet have the diagnosis.  I was just suggesting that there might be better meds for the anxiety.  Others had expressed options as well, but as I said, I was not a fan favorite.       It turns out on RA if you are the "owner" of a group, you can do whatever you want with it as far as banning people- even without justification.  That Queen has a few critical thinking skill deficiencies, but I wish her well with her cancer treatments. Honestly, you folks would not have lasted 3 days with the complaining, whining and doing nothing about any of it that went on in there!