Mornin' everyone.

Sunday’s workouts/races:
RunnerKSA (3.3 gloomy miles on tired legs in 51° temps)
Marj & Henrun (3 miles in Portsmouth, NH)
Quickadder (9 morning post-race trail miles on tired legs in 10:08 avg pace)
Holly (18 miles, including16.45 outside 33° morning miles + 1.55 TM miles)
Falconfixer (5.16 post-marathon miles at 9:30 pace in 30° temps + 20 mile group bike ride)
Spacityrunner (6 trail miles on Hot Springs Mtn in 71° temps + pumpkin cookie & ice cream & hot chocolate)
Catwhoorg (7 race-shaking miles)
Metalmancpa (10 miles, 8:32 pace, after 4.5 hrs of yard cleaning)

Surly Bill (5.5 evening miles in mid-60s temps)

Stumpy (3.9 morning miles with hillage)

Excellent weekend racing by Quickadder (63 sec. 10K PR, celebrating his 63rd birthday); Falconfixer (BQ at Richmond Marathon and 20/244 in AG); Catwhoorg ("massive" PR of 1:33:48 at Chickamagua Half); Opie (10K and 15K PRs in the RMt. Lemmon Half); Mike apparently did very well in the Richmond Marathon, but still waiting to hear from him); RunnerKSA (AG win in the long/hilly/chilly half);

Thanks for the cooking lesson, Twocat. Sounds like it was a great/tasty celebration.

The Seacoast Half Marathon yesterday was a whirlwind. Our race committee arrived at the venue at 6AM, and didn’t stop till everything was cleaned up and packed up at 1PM. 1145 finishers. Good racing, but no course records this year (Men's winner: 1:12:42 - Women's winner: 1:22:02). 1 deer hit by a car (smashed windshield, no one hurt, deer took off) half a mile from the start, just before the start; 3 dogs took off after the racers along the course, and the owner was pissed because the racers didn’t stop to help get them back (??); 1 woman passed out on the course, but aid was quick and good and she was OK; I had to DQ the lead racewalker based on 2 reports from the course that he was clearly running - he was very unhappy, but I think I talked him back from it a bit; we had very close to Ideal Race Conditions (temps in the mid 30s - low 40s with a little sun to brighten and warm things up; I handed out at least 8-10 boxes-worth of pizza to people waiting on the food line after the race, and the interactions with the racers were great; I love, love, love the way our race committee performed in every aspect of managing/coordinating the race; I am incredibly glad and grateful that we were able to host what appears to be another good race and successful fundraiser for our 12th Seacoast Half Marathon ($120K in entry fees and sponsorships raised for our beneficiary this year). I got home, and spent quite a while dealing with post-race emails (missing results, lost clothes, etc., etc.) I didn’t have a workout yesterday, but still put in 5 miles.

I woke at 3:30 this morning, and thought I'd snooze for 15 min and then get up and head out. When I opened my eyes again, it was 50 min later. I still headed out, but just for an easy 3.75 miles in 30° temps.

Have a greta Monday!

Jay

Nice work, Jay.  It really must be a lot of details to look after.  Responding to the unexpected incidents must be another challenge.

Good luck with Monkey work this week, KSA.

My voice is still a little hoarse from spectating but, otherwise, I'm recovered from the Richmond Marathon.   It was nice to meet Falconfixer and a pleasure hanging out with MikeE for a low-key recovery weekend.  It was fun seeing the leaders come in (2:19 on the men's side, 2:39 on the women's) as well as the back-of-the pack half-marathoners who were finishing at the same time (in a separate lane, thankfully).  I think the chilly temps (upper 20s at the start) kept some casual fans away but those of us who were out there had a blast.

Exercises + a 3.5 mile run for me today.

Have a great week.

Happy Monday, Folks -

Jay - It sounds like a fantastic event.  I got a good chuckle over the dog owner being PO'd that the racers didn't stop to help with the dogs. 

2Kitty's ribs sound delicious!  I had to look up delicata squash.  We've decided we like spaghetti squash for spaghetti better than we like actually spaghetti, so I'm also looking for other possible squash recipes.  We're not big squash eaters, so we'll see.

It was raining buckets of rain - sideways - when I was supposed to go out for my short run at O-Dark 30 - which meant I neither ran nor traversed the short distance from my back door to my Woman Cave.  The prospect of getting drenched at 4:30 in the a.m. kept me in bed.  Not that I got much sleep, but oh well.  I'll get in my 30 min after work.  This week I start slowly increasing my time/mileage, so we'll see how it goes.

Finally bought a new alarm clock.  Egads, but that thing is bright!  It's like having a green spotlight in the bedroom.  I'm wondering if red numbers would be better.  I turned it away from facing the bed, but it still was bright, and then there's the whole can't-see-the-time issue when it's facing away . . . .

Enjoy the week, friends ~~

Hi all,

just a quick check-in as I have much to do today. Still haven't written up my 9 mile race in the race thread, but not much to say about it really anyways. well, I did get 1st AG, but only 2 of us and even on average running day I'm faster than the other gal that ran it, so it's not like my 1st AG was anything all that impressive. 1:28:00 was my time.  

Probably won't be able to get in a run today.

Tammy - An AG is an AG, regardless of anything else.  Congrats!!

 

Do it, Dave!  I've done something like 55 +/- half marathons, and the Seacoast Half is one I look forward to coming back to each year. Everything about it is just...right. Great course in terms of views, variety and 'flow', excellent logistics, local charities benefit, etc, etc.

 

And the RD is pretty nice chap...

I’ll add my endorsement, too. Can only claim about a dozen, 3 of them are here. Everything milktruck says. And there’s little chance of hot weather. Big in my book.

Hi All. We're back home. Had a great weekend in the Seattle area, but alas, Monday always has a way of showing up. We got home at around 10:30 last night to a ton of snow, and woke up this morning to a few inches more. We might actually need to call a snowplow, but DH is still talking about firing up the snowblower. 

Yesterday I got out for 12 miles, most of those on the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail. Here's the Relive of my run, and I even loaded some pictures. I first went out thinking the trailhead I'd seen was just a couple blocks from the hotel, but couldn't find it so looped up around behind the road thinking I'd have to come across it eventually. Gave up and circled back to the hotel to have DH drive me to the point we'd seen the day before. Then, just about .3 miles into my run I cross a road and see that the place where I'd given up earlier was just about 75-100 ft away! Dang it! Should've kept going but couldn't see around the hill so didn't see it. Oh well. 10.7 miles on the corridor added to the 1.3 miles I covered looking for it gave me 12 for the day. And the weather was actually good, no rain at all till later in the afternoon.

I will put the Seacoast half on my calendar for next year...if I can I will...

2.5 miles before work in IRC.  Thought I was running like a house afire but when I looked at my data...poo...it was slow.  Oh well..they can't all feel speedy