Rochrunner stops in. He's been running, walking, cycling as well as experiencing some ups and downs. I suspect that a company could test for nicotine and acetaminophen if they so desire. What will be interesting is how recreational boating will be affected by Michigan joining the list of long haired hippy states where getting into the wacky tabbacy is legal. Someone living in a van down by the river could fire up a fat one and be fine. A passerby in a canoe enjoying the herb superb would likely fall under maritime/federal jurisdiction.

Coastwalker is a rebel in the rain testing his hammy with a home grown 10K.

Jlynne braves the temps and nudges out just past 5 3/4.

TammyinGP rounds up a loving, though temporary home for a lucky hound. She still works in 3 miles.

 

 

Super busy at work, trying to to a full week of work in a short week.

 

Our company belongs to that club.

Holly has a set back as her appointment gets bumped. Boo. She still gets 4 on the treadmill. Yay!!!

RunnerKSA get a double dose of treadmill terror.  2.2 AM and 2.3 PM. Sweet.

Dave59 nurses his calf while offering insights as to how the workplace has changed over the years.

Fatozzig has some hopeful news. There's a light at the end of the tunnel!

Tom White gets a round of golf in with frozen balls. He begins to question his sanity. He's set himself up for so many bad puns and innuendos that I'm in physical pain not to dive in head first because I realize that we're in polite company. Oh the torture!!! Was the ball washer very cold?

Falconfixer sees the Dr and the AM and kicks out a zippy 7 miler.

Bioguy has an aching 6 miles. I hope the tooth works out well.

Joe618 shows he's a wild one. Four mid day miles and some number crunching for our good friends at the IRS.

Tetsujin209 hits the seafood jack pot. The first 7 herbs and spices is a polite nod to one of our military greats, Colonel Sanders. The items at the front of the cupboard are likely to be what's already preferred in the house hold. Measurements are for scientists, chumps and hippies selling weed. Sometimes I'm a chump.

Evanflein works in 5.3 on the treadmill. I'm very sorry to hear that you've taking a tumble in the weather.

I churned out another three on the treadmill before work. A guy who has delivered to us over the last couple of years is requesting a different route. His DW works every other weekend and they've only been able to spend a few days together per month. I'm happy and sad. The first time we met, he said, "Don't even start your ****. I've heard all about you." I guess the ol' boy had 66 stops on his route. Ours was the only one highlighted. He was advised not to believe anything he heard or saw his first time here. I'm gonna miss him...Next week though...fresh meat.

Mornin' everyone.

'Nother great start, Steve, and interesting/insightful/funny thoughts about other folks' activities and musings.

Good question, Mike. But don't ever tell DW that I said that!

I got most of our grocery shopping done yesterday but, similar to Rochrunner and the basement, I have to go back today for the things I forgot plus a few additions. We're trying a new stuffing recipe this year, making cranberry relish for the first time, and we'll do something different with the roasted sweet potatoes as well. Should be an interesting dinner tomorrow.

Despite some rain and snow yesterday, I decided to venture out this morning. It was 28° so everything was frozen. The ghost trees were beautiful, even in the dark, but the iced roads were not. Fortunately, the better-traveled roads were relatively clear and I could walk them with little risk. No racewalking, however, 'cause I knew I'd tighten my hamstring against slipping with every step, and that wouldn't have been good. So I just went an EZ 3.2 miles.

Good luck to everyone Turkey Trotting tomorrow, and have a greta Thanksgiving!

Jay

Thanks for the info, RunnerKSA. I used to work for an industrial robotics company where safety was a huge deal (those things can be lethal!), so they were very rigorous on intoxicant enforcement in the robot tech workforce.

Managed to get in a short but intense workout on the trainer yesterday afternoon. I finally figured out how to get a fan set up for a decent cooling blast, which makes a big difference in the perspiration department.

Since neither my DW or DS are dessert (especially pie) people and my MIL is aging, I'm on deck this year for tomorrow's dessert. I'm going to try a nice-looking recipe for a pumpkin cake later today. Wish me luck...

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

...mornin'.......

........dave//.......calf tears are onrey things-

here's a Taping Idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3rA_w9WM6w

hope it helps

Jay - if you'd share that recipe for your roasted sweet potatoes, I'd be grateful.

Jlynne, here are some roasted sweet potato basics, plus some ideas for adding flavor/texture:  https://www.thekitchn.com/tips-for-making-better-roasted-sweet-potatoes-263169

Have fun!

Jay

 

It'll be tough to concentrate at work with the 4-day weekend coming up and half the staff out on vacation.

Yup, same here.  It's like a ghost town in this office.  But I have stuff to do, as we approach the end of a busy month.  I hope to take off a couple of hours early and swing by the packet pickup of of our 5-mile Turkey Trot, and the library on the way home, and probably will work a couple more hours from home while I do some baking for tomorrow.  DS and his GF plan to do a couple of vegetarian recipes tomorrow for the feast at GF's parents house (where we are all going), but their recipes seem to use 400 ingredients and every dish in the house, so whatever I can make tonight and get out of their way tomorrow is a good thing.

This is the 40th anniversary of our small town's Turkey Trot, which usually has around 10,000 registered runners and run/walkers.  I will likely be a run/walker this year, but that's okay.  It is a fun event, with lots of costumes.  Temps are forecast to be in the low to mid-20's, but the roads are dry.

Since I am doing 5 miles tomorrow, today I just did weights and core and laundry this morning before work.

Mornin' all.   Enjoying another day off.   Get to sit at home and read a book I want to read.   Sweet.

And I was cooking, jlynne!!   Made a batch of brownies for two neighbors.   Hard to explain without showing you a map of our neighborhood, but the street layout is such that my running routes have two choices...run on streets and have about 3/4 mile of dangerously narrow, heavily trafficked streets to run every time OR cut through the back yards of two houses to get to another neighborhood and link up with miles of trails with no danger.   I got their permissions when we moved to this house 18 months ago but I'm going to drop off a plate of brownies to each of them this afternoon with a note just to say thank you to them.

We have our Turkey Trot tomorrow a couple miles from my house, so I'll run there and back plus race a 5K, so a nice workout.   I'm actually helping with packet pickup this afternoon too...it's a really fun event and one of the larger fund raisers/food raisers for our local Food Bank.  In a town of 25,000 residents, we'll have over 1,000 runners and walkers tomorrow.

Rock on,

Joe

Howdy, masters!

Sounds like quite a few of you are doing turkey trot races tomorrow.  I'm also going to a 5k race in Idaho Springs that some friends are organizing to support a nonprofit called Wake Up Narcolepsy, because their son suffers from it.  I expect it will be a very small race, but I have several friends going and it's for a good cause.  And there's homemade pie at the end!

We're celebrating Thanksgiving on Saturday with DD and DSIL - they're celebrating with some friends tomorrow, but are coming here for the weekend.

Hope you all have a peaceful holiday and great running this weekend!