Nice run Tramps. Now you need to see how it feels later today.......hopefully well !

Another work day.....hopefully we'll be out of here by noon. Then it'll be an early in to support start-up for tomorrow. I can't complain.......my projects this year haven't required a whole lot of weekends.

Last night was my Bro-in-Laws annual Bon-Fire. Great time......Tons of food.....BBQ Chicken, pulled pork, venison, turtle, pheasant, Fish, duck.......then the salads and desserts ! 7 roasters filled with meat, 2 banquet tables filled with salads and desserts......the only thing lacking was enough stomach space to sample everything......but damn did I try !

And, for those that get there early......he blows up a pumpkin. Each year he grows those 800 - 1000lb pumpkins. My other BIL works for a blasting company and has the permits. What better way to quickly get rid of those huge pumpkins.....Turn 'em into pumpkin pie filling.

Good runs wished to all !

Tramps - keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Slo - that sounds like fun!

5.85 easy-paced miles (ave 10:09) for me today on a lovely crisp and sunny morning at 37 degrees.  The trees have barely begun to turn yet, even though we are late in the season, but the poisen ivy leaves are bright red as their vines wind up the trunks of the trees, providing a lovely contrast to the still-green leaves.

Last night's dinner went well, and although I overate, it wasn't too excessive.     TI have several hours of tax class homework to do today, and a soccer game later for DS.  Should be perfect weather for him, sunny and 54 degrees.

Blowing up pumpkins at a bonfire party!  That is such a guy-thing. Funny.

8 miles at 10:17/mi.  Beautiful fall day here.

Tramps - that sounds promising.  I hope hope hope this is nothing much.

I'm spending the day on a sewing project for baby Nate.  My idea of a perfect Sunday - even though it doesn't involve enormous vegetables and explosives.

spareribs, nice 10K with 1st in AG.  Walt, good job on your marathon.  CNY, it sounds like you sure had a great day encouraging your many friends.  Tammy, congrats on your 10K PR.  mari, congrats to your son on his XC PR.  Tramps, that was a nice run you had this morning.  I have my fingers crossed that you will not suffer any repurcussions.

Nice long runs for fussy, pfries (including 5K with PR), holly, mari, and WRFB.

This morning, it was in the high 20s and there was a light breeze.  I got in 5 miles in about 48 minutes for a 9:36 pace.

I've got a digression from running topics that touched me.  Last week, while visiting my mother, I saw she had a book that was a WWII memoir.  It didn't strike me as the kind of book she'd read until I looked and saw the author was a man who lives in the same retirement complex she does.  I've met this man and his wife and talked with them several times.  He's on the smallish size, seems like a quiet and shy type, well spoken, and, unfortunately, has pretty bad dementia.  His wife is alert and spry and takes real good care of him.  I borrowed his book from my mother and couldn't put it down once I started it.  He was drafted and trained as a B-24 navigator.  Before going overseas and while on a training mission, his plane iced up and went down.  He was the only one who was able to bail out.  The other 10 crew members didn't survive.  He was assigned to the Pacific theater and participated in a number of combat missions.  On a mission in the Solomon Islands, his bomber was hit and went down.  Again, he was the only one able to parachute out and the only one of the crew to survive.  He landed in the ocean and managed to get himself to an island 10 miles from the crash site.  He knew the island was in Japanese hands but was fortunate to be found by natives who didn't like the Japanese.  After a number of days, the natives got him to a couple of coast watchers who took care of him for quite a few days.  The coastwatchers were able to arrange a sea plane to pick him up about a month after his crash.  The book was quite well written, about 10 years ago, before he had dementia.  It was a moving story and meant so much more knowing that I knew the man who lived the experiences in the book.  

A good day and good runs for all.

TomS 

I'm spending the day on a sewing project for baby Nate.  My idea of a perfect Sunday - even though it doesn't involve enormous vegetables and explosives.

 

^^If that doesn't prove the "Women are from Venus, men are from Mars" axiom, I don't know what does.

Sounds like you ran a great race, Nono!

3 recovery for me, quads a little sore, but everything else....knees, AT's, hammies....feeling pretty good.

Hope you're on the mend, Tramps.

Hey SLO:

"Tons of food.....BBQ Chicken, pulled pork, venison, turtle, pheasant, Fish, duck..."

Where was the party? A zoo?

Good running, everybody!

Wat

Denise, thanks.  wtg on your 5K!!   ... a 10K tomorrow?  wow.    and btw, Aamos was right.  :-)

Nono, great job!

Nancy, I was just thinking about that a little while ago.    One week from now & it will be over, regardless of anything.   kind of like childbirth.   

It was cold here too!  24° when I started, and windy in both directions. (really).   but at least it was sunny, dry & very beautiful. 

Tramps, .

better go, I'm making soup & it's probably boiling over.   I decided maybe this will be one of my marathon traditions,   (started to put in an  'if' here, but decided that's not very wise).   Make soup, get rid of vegetables so I don't come home to nasty things, & have something easy & healthy to eat all week.  My stomach has really been on edge.   is that common?