Mornin' everyone.

Wednesday’s workouts:
Tramps (6 trail miles, tough on the knee)
Dave59 (4 sweaty H&H park miles, feeling good)
Sees-the-Ground (4 EZ hill-free miles)
Fatozzig (15 min of stat bike + 45 min of core/ST)
Tomwhite (30 min ARC Trainer)
Holly (4.6 miles in 67° temps)
RunnerKSA (half-day snorkeling excursion)
Surly Bill (4.3 EZ miles)
Spacityrunner (4 fun miles on West Mtn with the trail gang in a thunderstorm)
Falconfixer (6.13 pre-sunrise miles at 9:06 pace [mostly in the 8:50s])
Mike (12 miles with 10 at tempo in 87° and sunny)
Tet (5 miles in 88° and sunny)
Evanflein (8.1 nighttime miles in mid-50s temps with wind

As time goes by, I’ve become more and more selective about the news sources and stories I’ll read/watch/listen to. I have less and less tolerance for BS from any and all directions, and of newspeople who intentionally fan whatever flames with the way they report. I could go on and on, but I won’t. You’re welcome.

Sorry about the knee, Tramps. Good on you for knowing when to back off.

Dave, I’m very happy to let some people get the last word in if it makes them go away. I was in an email battle with a town resident last week - I finally ran out of things to say and so just stopped, and (much to my relief) so did she.

Good luck on reaching your 100 mi. goal, STG.

Mr. Mr. looks inscrutable. And very handsome. And I’m sure he appreciated the extra treats.

Good job of conquering the mental game of running, Mike.

Good job of mimicking Mike, Tet.

So I said I'm thinking about Rehoboth Beach in Dec, and almost everyone else says "not me." Was it something I said??

I slept in a little bit (till 4:15) this morning, so I had to shorten my workout a bit to get back in time to do my post-workout routine and still wake up DW on time. So 4.45 RW miles in 48° under overcast skies with negative splits going from a 12:15 warm-up mile to 11:10 as I cruised home. Twas OK for a Thursday.

Have a greta Thursday!

Jay

KSA - how many streaks have you had?

Is this the longest?

Dave, I’m very happy to let some people get the last word in if it makes them go away. I was in an email battle with a town resident last week - I finally ran out of things to say and so just stopped, and (much to my relief) so did she.

Instead of advancing more argument, I recently seem to have closed out an unnecessary e-mail exchange by saying, “okay, but we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed.”  What’re they gunna say in response? - we’ll keep ours uncrossed?

Tammy, congrats on the scholarship(s) for your son!  Certainly nice that his efforts are paying off (literally).  My son got a small award from a college he did not want to go to (of course).  I'm happy though that he chose UBC - my Dad went there for Electrical Engineering back in the 40s during the second world war.  He's now 92 and in a nursing home.  And Tet, yes, it's a nice campus a bit out of the city.  I will just need to get my US citizenship so I can actually leave the US to drive him there.    It's been almost 13 months since I applied and the wait could be another 3 months.  If I had known it was going to take this long, I would have just renewed the dang green card.

Yesterday I was going to work from home and sneak in a trail run.  My boss said I had to physically attend a meeting though.  So I walked the dog, then rode my bike in to work - about 12.8 miles but I will need to wear my Garmin someday to figure that out exactly.  With my laptop in the bike bag, it's a bit of work going up the hills.  After work I rode with MBE to his house, another 4.6 miles.  Then used his car to drive home.  Perhaps tomorrow I will get in a run.  This morning I drove both kids to AP exams.  My daughter has been so stressed about this - her first one.  She is constantly in competition to get the same or better marks than her older brother.

Leslie - cute kitty!

Dave - it felt hard because 1) it was a gym 2) it was a treadmill!

 

Dave - it felt hard because 1) it was a gym 2) it was a treadmill!

True dat!

I realized I wrote "Enjoy ~" above Mr's pic.  I meant just enjoy things in general, but thanks for the comments on him.  I read them to him and his head has swelled slightly over the last day or so.   He actually meowed at me when he met me at the end of the driveway yesterday, so he must be feeling pretty jazzy.

I had a client send me the follow email this mornings: "hi....wrong email address its [insert email address]    thanks h."  I've sent him a couple of emails over the last two days, including one that had copies of two applications I had prepared.  I reviewed both applications multiple time this morning and the email's correct.  I have no freaking idea what he's talking about. 

5 miles this a.m. in foggy/drizzly conditions.  I was nice a warm with the wind behind my back, but chilled when it was in my face.  When are we going to get more sun??  Anyway, I am, once again, having to work hard on keeping an EZ pace and not constantly pushing things.  A podcast I was listening to as reinforcing the importance of this.  *sigh*  Someday I'll learn . . . .

Okay - Off to the trenches.  Enjoy ~~

No running today, but one of the most memorable days in my life. My youngest, Sarah, graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She and her husband (an Ironman triathlete) are moving to Milwaukee where she will begin her residency as an Ob/Gyn at the Wisconsin School of Medicine. Wonderful ceremony then a great time at lunch with friends and family.

Tomorrow I will post a poem read by the keynote speaker that I found quite inspiring.

Till then,

Tailwinds!

Hello everybody!

That is awesome, bioguy!  Congratulations!

tet...you crack me up.

I went 7 miles, today.

Okay--gotta go--I have to put a training plan together for a former cross country runner from the school I coach at.  He's doing a 50k in October.  This will be fun.  See ya!

That’s great, bioguy!   Best wishes for the future.

I am on St. John (USVI)

Hey all.

Love St. John. One of my favorites. Salt flats are great. The little town was so relaxing and welcoming. Might be time to do a return visit. Glad you're having a good time Karen and not fretting about the streak.

So cool bioguy. Congrats.

You can fire customer Leslie. Just saying.

Look at tet with the verbal ju jitsu. Well played.

Long day. Lots of meetings in Ohio. I started the presidency of a professional society chapter today (yikes) and then had a race back in town. It's a nice series called the 317 (Indy area code) where we run races that are 3.17 miles. Lots of fun and some beers from local breweries after. It was hot but I enjoyed it.

Well off we go. Have a good evening.

Cheers.