Pfriese, it was good to finally meet you face to face.

TomWhite doing an imitation of alphabet soup.

RunnerKSA mixing it up with a 3+3. Respect.

Holly having her hands full. I do not miss going to high school.

Tramps had a cool 5.

Mrrun developing superpowers in a fashionable 5.5

Dave59 getting down, dirty and long with 1st AG. I'm envious of those times.

Stumpy enjoying a crisp Maine morning. Maine miles are much more difficult that Iowa miles I'm sure.

"Oh say can you see

Henrun knock out 2 in IRC?"

MikeE killing us with his home spun humor. Running 8 with the wallet draining youth of of his town.

Surly Bill reminiscing about a perfect course. getting hip with 3 3/4.

Mariposai looking all Rosie with cherished friends..

Joe618 enjoying a little R&R.

TwoCat pushing 30.

Falconfixer getting in a 7 mile mix.

Quickadder adding a 5K to his weekend.

Jlynne chillin' after her 3.5. Then trippin' through the farmer's market.

Spacecityrunner enjoying 3.5 and fostering a doggie notion. I'd really struggle hanging with a hound names after a beloved snack.

Our beloved Buehrle getting a 2nd AG. You've earned hardware.

I moved my work out to the Race Report page. After our 5K, I stopped and a rock and mineral show. I drooled a lot. I got too hear people brag about being geologist to the vendors. Unless you occasionally count bacteria from oil samples, you're a rock hound.

Then Tag went to work with me for 1/2 a day. He didn't mind it this time because of all the sticks.

5 miles of mountain hiking this early morning.  Gotta go feed the birds and get ready for my foster doggie to come home!!  

Dave that usually happens to me..take care of that ouchie knee!

Dave-  I hope your knee is OK!  We see particularly fragile these days.

3 elliptical miles.  The clubhouse gym is just too warm.  It's not like some hotel gyms (Norm's favorite) where you know it's too hot the minute you walk in, but after I get going I know it just isn't cool enough- and I'm pretty heat tolerant.  I sweat twice as much as in the work gym, which isn't exactly freezing.

((Dave))

Nice race Jay. Sounds you had a great a party. BTW my DD is in your hood for a 35th high school reunion.

RunnerKSA-our fitness room is on AC, not that I use it when the outdoors is so beautiful this time of year here.

4 miles this gorgeous fall morning watching the leaves turn.

Even though I’ve been slacking for a while, I like taking breaks into the forum to catch up on everyone’s adventures, Mariposai still taking care of 2-cat, Steve thinking youthful discretionS’ll only follow him into his seventies, Paul running around Paris like I used to explore Tokyo, Holly’s DD being taught being taught it’s okay, if not required, to be suffer as a victim and getting in trouble for standing up for herself, Dave in the mud where, if God didn’t want us to run in it, what else is it for?  Spurred by all the guy’s previous victims, the student body should vote to give Holly’s DD a Certificate of Appreciation/Medal of Honor and special place in their yearbook.   Too bad.
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Also quite too bad is that, for the first time in maybe 12-15 years, after going running this morning solely for running’s sake for the first time in 12-15 years and nothing else, more than an hour around-and-around the grass and beach of a secluded lakeside park at the end of five mile cycle I discovered the other day, I finally have something concrete to post about other than the races I like and then I have to deal with this, especially since all day today is fruit day in the GM diet that’s trying to get my down below 170lbs for the first time in five-or-six years:

a lobster fest for 18 of our neighbors. We cooked lobsters for 15 and 9 lbs of steamers and grilled 18 ears of corn.

Thanks a lot, jay!
Hope you can run/RW it off today.

Holly’s DD being taught being taught it’s okay, if not required, to be suffer as a victim and getting in trouble for standing up for herself, Dave in the mud where, if God didn’t want us to run in it, what else is it for?  Spurred by all the guy’s previous victims, the student body should vote to give Holly’s DD a Certificate of Appreciation/Medal of Honor and special place in their yearbook.   Too bad.

I respectfully disagree with you here. I believe she is being taught to be careful on how to deal with a bully or a mentally unstable person. However, I was not in the cafeteria all week and I do not know if the boy has a diagnosis. It seems his dramatically violent reaction to DD "standing up for herself" might be evidence of his potential for violence. I am not a professional educator and would love to hear how the teachers in our group deal with these sorts of situations.

I guess I am just overly cautious when it comes to mentally ill people. Perhaps the recent tragic stabbing of the young runner in DC has made me want to search for a better way to handle the mentally unstable. Again,my educational background is nursing and not high school cafeteria etiquette. Or lack thereof. Or mental illness and how to cope with the mentally unstable.

Actually, I believe the lesson the school is teaching DD (or what she seems to be learning from it) is that the boy's attack is partially her fault.  That, as the victim, she still had some culpability in his attack, even though she believes it was his behavior that started the whole issue.  However, the lesson I am trying to get DD to leave with is, don't poke the bear when it is not necessary.  Sometimes bears have guns, and that is just prudent behavior, not cowardice.  Make the best of it and move on.

(((Dave's knee)))  Many of the most painful owies I have had, have been from some simple wrong move - turning my head to look at the stovetop, bending over to brush my hair, etc.

Lovely, lovely day here.  I managed to get in 5.1 walking miles in between DD's games.  Walking takes SO LONG.  At least the way I do it.  Still, motion is good.

Hey y'all, nice 16+ mile bike ride at a very easy pace.  It's the weekly local recovery ride and very friendly for people new to the sport or who been away for a while etc.  I generally ride near the back and today rode at the very back.  One rider new to me was a young man (middle school or maybe a freshman) on an inexpensive (so heavy) bike.  Nice young man, didn't complain, asked good questions and was very good with the old folks answering.  So a fun, relaxing ride.....other than my rear tire which appears to be separating some of it's internal casing.  I'm going to try and save it, but I've already ordered new ones.  Not sure of the mileage on the tire, hopefully well over 1000, not that it matters at this point.

Since I forgot this morning, I saw a reference to the 2019 Tobacco Road Marathon.  That's the one I ramped up too quickly for this spring (obviously not the marathon's fault!).  Quick summary:  the marathon and half marathon start at the same time on a relatively narrow road.  That sort of spreads out once you leave the park (the road is certainly wider.  When you reach the Tobacco Road (a rails to trails surface), marathoners turn right and the half marathoners turn left.  No issues with trail width on that section (from the road to the turnaround then back) but then you cross the road you ran in on and follow the half marathoners.  Depending on how fast you are running, you'll run into traffic and the trail isn't "segregated" for those running out and those running back.  It wasn't terrible, but it got crowded.  Fun race, and it should be a PR course, but there may be too many folks on the trail.....just something to consider.

Have a great night everyone!