Mornin' everyone.

Friday's workouts:

RunnerKSA (2.6 morning miles)

Tomwhite (45 min, X-Bike)

Holly (8.1 miles in 65° temps)

Tet (5 miles with a cooling, smoke-clearing north breeze)

Dave (8.46 miles, quicker than the last 1.5 hr run, feeling good)

Catwhoorg (6.5 lunchtime miles + 15ish bike miles, dodging power line crews)

Mike (9.3 miles, including 2 before practice, 3.5 with XC kids, and 3.8 with Ryan)

Continuing discussions and proof (thanks, StarrRuns) about past and future RA meetups. Could there be one in Boston the week of Oct. 9 with Evanflein? Hope so...

What is the new sekret to posting photos on RA, and to have them stick? Is it using Holly's trick of going from Facebook to here?

It's great to read about the runs and work that Tammy and Mike are doing with their respective XC teams.

Tammy, I agree that for-profit, from away race organizers are more likely to cancel a race than locals (Vancouver Marathon?). There are many, many good reasons to stick with races organized locally, and those that benefit various local non-profits.

Twocat, as we were coming home through Hampton last night, I saw the RTB arrow signs, telling the relay runners which way the route goes. Made me a little nostalgic for the race too, even though I haven't nearly the history with it as you. However, the weather has been damp/rainy from yesterday afternoon on, and it still is this morning, so it wouldn't have been the best of conditions for a 36-hr. relay. And, as Stumpy said, you've had something more important to work on this year.

Today is our 39th wedding anniversary. We're going to the farmer's market this morning, out to dinner tonight, and then going on a cruise to the Isle of Shoals (12 miles off the coast) for some fresh sea air and a little exploration tomorrow. Maybe we'll do some window-shopping and gallery hopping in Portsmouth today too.

6.3 RW miles this morning in 64° temps and mizzle that fizzled to a mist by the time I got back home. Always strange and somehow a bit unnerving to see millions of tiny drops of water seeming to come straight toward me in the cone of light from my headlamp. I feel like I should duck out of the way, but I never do, and nothing every happens - except that I get a bit damp.

Have a greta Saturday!

Jay

Happy Anniversary Jay - and great way to celebrate with RW, dinner, and cruise!

Stumpy - go get that hill!

Biked short distances yesterday and today and theater this afternoon.  Both days thought I would be caught in mizzle, but didn't happen.

happy w/e,

marj

Happy Anniversary, Jay!  Sounds like fun plans.

13 miles with the running group.  I ran a little faster than I wanted to go on the way out to try to keep some of them in sight.  On the way back I actually had some company since a few of them had slowed down.  I did my walk breaks but not every mile on the mile, and I shortened them to about 45 seconds.  Started out at 62 degrees but was a little warm at the end, even though we started at 6 am.  It also got a little trafficky towards the end.  It's a nice route on a "rural" but close to town road, but it does get some traffic as the morning progresses.  Lots of bikes on that road, too.   There's a church along the route (our turnaround today) which is small but has a mission of "doors open for athletes" and they have a nice water fountain and bathrooms that bikers and runners are welcome to use.   We put some money in the till if we have some with us.

Since I have been off the forum for so long - I had to go back and figure out why Twocat could not eat solid food.  OMG!!!  You trooper!  Hope you are healing up well.  Sounds just so painful and awful.

No run to report but yesterday Mr. Blue Eyes and I hiked up Granite Mountain.  8.6 miles round trip with 3800 feet of elevation gain. I would post a photo if I knew the easiest way to do it.  Since I haven't been running or hiking, that hike totally wiped me out.  I was so sore last night - feet just aching.  I refused to take any ibuprofen and toughed it out.  Today my feet are ok, but my quads are screaming.

It was a beautiful hike - but I felt uneasy at the top - a bit of vertigo I guess.  Sitting on top of a pile of boulders looking down 4000 feet.

coastwalker happy anniversary! More importantly, I note the next year your anniversary falls on a Sunday. Does this mean you are back on the team, assuming we get one together? <Insert praying emoji here>

stumpy77, mrrun and Henrun same here. Weather fit for a frog.

RunnerKSA that is so cool, a church with a sign "doors open for athletes." I pass a church and a temple on my long route, boy I wish they had such a sign!

enkephalin first, welcome back to the forum. We missed you. Tough hike with that elevation gain. Around here it is not ibuprofen, it is vitamin I and you can therefore take it without having taken any drugs. Just a vitamin.  No, for real, my DW and our friends do call it vitamin I.

spacityrunner sound like a great running group you have there. I wish I was hooked into something similar. Alas, the local running clubs are not all that much fun and I have stopped going to them.

As others have reported the weather in New England would only make a frog happy. The dew point during my run today was 70°. Nevertheless, I got out to do my 20 mile run. Done. that is all the good I will say about it. Next week I am going to try for 22. I have 9 days left to be able to start eating solid food and talk for 90 minutes at a time without ending up in pain. If by 9/25 I still cannot, I need to cancel all of my Australia and Asia talks for October. Wish me luck between now and then. I fear that am going to need it.

  Around here it is not ibuprofen, it is vitamin I and you can therefore take it without having taken any drugs. Just a vitamin.  No, for real, my DW and our friends do call it vitamin I.

 

  And don't we hear all the time that Inflammation is Bad?

Jay - Happy Anniversary!

RunnerKSA - very cool church.

I am slowly harvesting my garden.  Instead of snipping leaves off the kale plants, I pull a few every few days and then snip the leaves.  (I use kale in my Nutribullet shakes.)  The carrots are getting pulled slowly, but they will go until first frost, so I am not rushing them.  I pulled some of my tomato plants today, as the pests seem to be getting to them.  The peppers are still doing well.  Frankly, it is ME that wants to be done with the garden....

Just 3.45 miles for me today and about 20 minutes of weights and core.

Put on a birthday party for my daughter, her 6th, which was quite the workout in of itself.

Waterslide was up, and I was outside getting slowly cooked by the last vestiges of summer.

Everyone had a blast, which was the goal.

I guess I did an enke today as, I don't know how many everyone else has but The Equinox is one of three races from my past for me that comes to life on the autumnal equinox weekend, Fourth-of-July, and October 10 so, especially after Monday's frolic in the sun at Paradise at the base of the Mt. Rainier alpines, I decided to hike up the biggest local hiking destination at nearby Mt. Si  probably an easy, unremarkable  3,000' from the 100+ car parking to the start of the bolder fields that lead further up a Class 3 ascent a couple more hundred feet to the summit but I don't/can'T go that far

Kind of a pathetic choice as it's nothing like The Equinox in toughness and it wasn't that bad when I'd pretty much run all four miles up a less than 1.5 hours in a summit race about 20 years ago.  Even won a pair of Merrilll Sierra Leone's I decided to wear for the first time today over the sharp-rocked trail.

Well, like the formerly simple 3.5 mile  Skyline Trail in the lower alpines of Mt Rainier at Paradise that did me in on Monday, Mt. Si's all-of-a-sudden become extremely daunting too and took all day until getting back down to the trailhead at 5:30pm exactly where I stupidly thought I'd be by noon, or, at the latest, 1-1:30pm.  Whew.