Mornin' Holly, and everyone else!

So, Holly was the last to post yesterday, and the first today. I guess you must like it here!

Mariposai looked perfect in her headwings yesterday!

I didn't wear pink pajamas to work today, but i do have on a red sweater.

Today was an SRD anyway, but I had an awful night's sleep last night - there is just a lot going on these days, and for some reason, a lot of it kept popping into my head last night. One time, when I did fall asleep for a while, I had a dream about not being able to sleep. Was that a Twilight Zone episode? It was 13F when I got up to feed the cat at 4, so I was just as glad to stay in this morning. I hope i don't snore too loud at tonight's 7pm meeting...

Have a greta Monday!

Jay

Hiya!

Such a busy group!  I wonder if Robin is speaking to Mike after his Saturday comment??

And I didn't realize but am not surprised that Mike knows Hermosaboy as they travel at those rare speeds.....as do Karin and C-R -CONGRATS, 1:29. wow! (and several other folks I'm omitting, sorry.)

tet, congrats!  So cool you even surprised yourself.  And Dave cracked me up with his advice to you.   Glad to hear SRL was at the race.

Kevin, good news about your injury.  Glad it seems to be minor and good for you for treating it with caution.  I gotta learn that skill.

deez, you had me: when I read your post, I thought you were posting your most recent 5k time, so I saw 21:55 and then when I read, no big deal, I was thinking, whoa, she HAS gotten warp speed fast!   I get it now, that's your bib number.

"April in Paris"   .................ok, I am just envious of you, Paul.  --> me, green with envy.  Want to hear all about it.

Carolyn, your DD continues to impress.  The Seattle folks are incredible, you'll love them, but of course, those other 2 (not too shabby)  schools are probably very much in the running in her considerations!

Nancy, those wings so suit you, and what a super LR.  I NEVER have those, have to actually go to a marathon for that to happen.  Agree with what rhoon wrote.

Hi ras!  That run sounds loopy!  Reminds me of the Zoom Ya Ya Marathon.

Isn't this neat?  I'm going to Reston, VA to visit my college roomie and run the marathon there Sunday.  She and her husband, neither are runners, have found me other runners to run with the day before AND they both volunteered to help at the pasta dinner.  (And he used to run a very classy little restaurant in San Luis Obispo.)

After the 5K Saturday, half marathon Sunday and Red Sox loss at jetBlue SUnday afternoon, my 5 miler this am was veddy veddy turtleish.

And since the drive Sunday caused me to have to get up aound 4 am, I too, am  today.

REALLY, truly sorry about the weather to everyone dealing with the latest wintery blast.  I would be cracking up or    by now.

Please vent away.  You deserve it.

((Dave)) not much fun being wired.

Return of the vortex- barely 20 here with a chill factor close to 0-windy. Went out for a short run around our local reservoir. Bright sun despite the cold and the ground was bare for 1st time this year. Won't be if we get snow on Wed. Off to the Y for yoga this afternoon. No pink pj's.

Good morning! Long time no see, and thanks Jay for the greeting. Pretty busy lately with DS' late season ski races and work projects.  If anyone wants to ski, there is about 4 feet of soft snow in the woods at Wildcat and at least that much in the back country at higher elevations.  DS has been skiing pretty well; the Spring series races are interesting becuase there are athletes of many ages; he is the absolute youngest allowed to race in the scored races. It becomes more about getting USSA points down as much as possible rather than expecting to podium or even place very high.

I have been running, still moderately but I did get the miles up over 40 the last couple of weeks, which is good by recent standards.  THis morning was a 6.5 miler around town, 11 degrees, sunny and breezy. Not Spring around here just yet... yesterday I did a short hike, which turned out to be difficult becuase the trail was nearly unbroken and there was a lot of new soft snow.

Friday I had a nice approx 9 miler on the snowy bike path near Cannon Mtn where my DS was racing . It is a very pretty path, and does get groomed so is ok with yak traks as long as it is not too warm/soft. Friday it was mostly ook when I went; a few soft spots and a few snowmobiles to dodge, but we managed to work around each other.  That path is also much hillier and windier than the usual rail tral, so you have to keep your ears open!

Saturday I was in Manchester in the morning so ran on the rail trail at Massabesic.  Quite a contrast to Cannon; variable footing but not much snow left-- there was frozen snow and ice though!  In the afternoon I had a great reunion visit and lunch in Massachuseets with some HS cross country teammates and class mates, two of whom I had not seen in 35 or so years. We talked for hours and could talked longer.  I give Facebook some credit for that. One of the ladies lives in Germany, so not easy to meet up.

Great running around here-- I am behind but have been lurking some.

I am working the medals crew/finish line at Boston as a volunteer-- look forward to seeing many of you!

I'm glad to see that all those training runs Tet put in paid off! Congrats Tet!

oh, no wonder I'm still so sore.

Pending the Dizzy Daze 12-run results and wrap-up, an RD e-mail this morning acknowledged a surprise aid station with sports drink, chocolate milk, water, cookies, trail mix, etc. that cropped up in the afternoon about half way around the lake (between aqua-theatre and JocknJill):
The Green Lake Seventh Day Adventists kindly set up a “rogue” aid station on the far side of the lake, much to the chagrin of the co-race-director, who feels this sort of coddling just makes his runners soft. (Note: co-race director is the husband part).  \

However, she also noted that “the race directors’ marriage seems to have survived yet another event, so we’ll look forward to seeing you all again next year, either as runners, volunteers, hecklers or bandits.”

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ps skier mom - thanks for the update skier mom. Spring skiing in the sunshine and long daylight is the best. I always enjoy hearing about your running in places that we only used to read about in the old skiing magazines in those days like the Conway tram, etc.  Do you do the Mt. Washington Race? Is it anywhere near Tony Matt’s famed Inferno schuss down Tuckerman’s Ravine?

 ....so the question is, will we see the ground before April 1st?

And the answer is--NO!  We will NEVER see the ground again for as long as we live!!!!  This winter will NEVER end!!!!   AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Sorry....I seemed to have lost it for a second there.

Aamos--thank you for including me with Hermosaboy in your comment.  However, I really do not feel worthy to even be mentioned in the same paragraph....

Me:  98/489 overall.  6/29 55-59.  31:05

Hermosaboy: 39/489 overall.  2/26 50-54.  27:53

Oh look....IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!