Mornin' everyone.

Wednesday’s workouts:
PBJ (7 easy miles + spinnerooni kicker)
Dave (4 slow, humid morning miles)
Fatozzig (30 morning min of core/ST, with focus on glutes using bands)
RunnerKSA (1.3 3:50AM streak-preserving miles)
Catwhoorg (5 lunchtime miles)
TeaOlive (4 hot, soupy miles)
Mariposai (9 morning miles in cool temps with a breeze)
Mike (10 miles, including 7 at tempo with hillage)
Spacityrunner (3.1 evening miles in swampy soup, with smiles)
Tammy (3.1 post-work TM miles)
Evanflein (10.7 evening trail miles with few stops)

Have a great time in Acadia, PBJ! When do you go?

Dave, my cooling mechanism never worked well on humid days, so all I can do is back off, persevere, and look forward to cooler/drier weather in the Fall.

I’m glad you got to enjoy the pleasant evening on Tuesday, Tammy.

Good call on not lifting the water jug, Fatozzig. I hope the Hub makes a good call on his trip too.

Sorry about the Denver traffic, RunnerKSA - who knew?

Where are you, TeaOlive, that it is so hot and soupy?

It sounds like you’ve got great weather, now that the smoke has cleared, Mariposai.

DD sure is keeping you on your toes, isn’t she, Holly? Keeping the summons from you when she knew she'd have to deal with it is a problem too, but I'm sure you've explained that to her. You’ve got good advice from others here, and you’ve got good judgement on your own, so you (and DD) will get through this.

Thanks for your input & questions about my SIL and her DH who were in the accident. Yes, they do have a lawyer they feel good about. Yes, the other driver’s insurance company has paid to the policy limit. I don’t think they can sue that insurance company if they have done what the policy dictates. I believe they will be looking at all payment options before going down the bankruptcy road. It is just a shame that something that was not their fault at all has turned their lives around fiscally, in addition to (as Tet pointed out) physically and emotionally.

I have a 10K race at 6PM tonight in what looks to be warm and sunny weather (not my favorite!). So all I’m doing this morning is some good stretching and continuing to hydrate. This is one of the few races where you truly have to earn your race shirt - only a percentage of the top finishers in each AG get shirts, so they are valued more than those from other races where you get one for registering. It has been like that with this race for 40 years.

Have a greta Thursday!

Jay

Hi, all.  Gorgeous first morning run here in Crested Butte at 8800 feet.  Tried to keep it as flat as I could.  37 degrees at the start!  I remembered how to put a jacket on.   6 miles done.

For those old-timers who wonder what DaveinAA has been up to lately, here's a link to an article in today's Detroit Free Press:

http://freep.mi.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=30eb89924

Warm and humid here this morning, but the radar seemed to show that the morning rain had moved on, so I went out for my planned run. You can guess the rest of the story, as it started drizzling at about the mile mark. It wasn't too bad, so I continued on only to have it turn into a downpour. But after turning around and getting back to the main road, it let up, so I continued the other way on the trail to make it an even 4 miles by the time I got home.

I seem to have more trouble running in H&H these days, probably due to age-related decline in aerobic capacity. Whatever the cause, running or cycling in these conditions really wipes me out! I think I see a nap in my future later this afternoon...

Cool piece on DaveinAA.  Didn't mention his DJ skills, though.

((Holly))  What a drag. Underage drinking's pretty common, of course, but the devious efforts to hide things from you seem potentially more problematic. Hope it turns out to be a productive teachable moment.

Jay--hope they are able to find a solution.  Tough situation.  Good luck tonight!

Went for my first PT session yesterday. Time was spent mostly on evaluating my various strengths/weaknesses.  I got a set of exercises to do at home as a start. I'm not-so-secretly hoping for a return to some minimal running this Fall?  We'll see.

Meanwhile, a 20-mile ride yesterday.  I've been riding with flat pedals so far but I ordered clipless pedals and shoes this week. I wish I still had my old hockey elbow and shoulder pads for the upcoming inevitable tip-overs.

Hey, did you notice mc solar is quoted in that article, too? How cool is that?? And yeah, DaveinAA posted that story (well, his side of it) about the trip in 1979 and doing it again this year on Facebook. We will totally miss it here. Any chance we might have seen it (I don't think we're in range at all) is blocked out by heavy cloud cover the next couple of weeks.

Leslie, I honestly cannot believe the sheer volumes of people that are travelling in that headache of traffic through central oregon for a 2 minute glimpse of something. it boggles my mind. yet, if this is what Shorty wants to do, then go for it!  A friend lives in Sisters and has been posting pics and making her commentaries about all these people coming through their area. and backups on the highways around there that go for miles - like 10 miles!

and to make it all worse, huge fires over there and now my friend is under a level 2 evac warning. Can you even imagine the sheer chaos and gridlock that would happen if residents, who have basically hunkered down in their homes for the next 4 days to avoid all these people, are ordered to evac the area?!
I'll see 96% eclipse from my front yard. that's good enough for me.   If Shorty wants to turn around, he's welcome to camp in our yard . . and I'll even give him a blow up mattress 

Hi All.  I'm starting to really enjoy my noontime walks on my alternating days.  Typical is running on M,W,F and walking on T,Th.  The noontime walk is a 4-mile walk (2 miles out and back) on basically the same course along the Hudson River's Corning Preserve Bike and Running Trail that I've been running on for the past 13 years.  And I'm as obsessive about keeping a proper pace while walking as I am while running.  Overall pace for 4 miles was 14:34, and the splits were 14:34 / 14:34 / 14:42 / 14:26.   I don't know why but that third mile is almost always slow and I almost always compensate on the 4th mile to make up for it as I did today.  And much of the 4th mile is uphill.....

Today I checked my HR to see if I was in any kind of training zone, and I think the answer to that is "no".  Just 85 bpm at the end of the walk, even though in order to walk any faster I would really have to push hard. In fact when I have walked the course as fast as I can, I have been able to walk at a 14:00/mi pace.   At the end of a typical Easy Running Zone run, my HR is just under 150 bpm, which would seem a little high for "easy" but I think I have a very high training HR - it used to register over 200 when I was running intervals.  So I was thinking it might register high after walking briskly for an hour but apparently not.  I guess I have to find a hilly route for getting it up in a training zone during a walk.

Happy Running everyone.

Brian

BTY-  That's a really good walking pace.  I am NOT a good walker and don't go very fast.  I'm also an impatient walker if I really want to be running!