Mornin' everyone, and goodbye to August.

Wednesday’s workouts:
RunnerKSA (3.1 morning miles + 2 post-work TM miles)
Tramps (21 bike miles)
Holly (6.7 miles)
Marj (3 walking miles)
Rochrunner (31 post-fog bike miles, some with the group)
Tet (5 breezy morning miles)
Pfriese (1000m lunch-time swim)
Dave (stress-burning at the gym)
Twocat (2 walking miles with DW and without tongue bolster)
Mike (10.1 miles with 7 at tempo with hillage)
Spacityrunner (4 evening mountain miles)

StarrRuns (9 pre-supper bike miles)

Tammy (4.4 evening TM miles)

Evanflein (5.3 evening miles at a good clip)

I’ll be happy to try Twocat’s gazpacho, maybe even this weekend. The best cold soup I ever had was a cold strawberry soup with a dab of sour cream at a steak restaurant called Pepe's just off the NE corner of Washington Square Park in NYC where Marianne McPartland used to play jazz piano. This was from the early 60s.

Lots of different ways to skin (or not) a tomato, eh?

I hope your knee stops barking, Marj.

And I hope your smoke, and the fires, clear soon, Tammy.

Good ride without and with the group, Rochrunner.

Nice celebratory 5er, Tet.

Good pool work, Pfriese.

I hope you got to go hide after working, Dave.

Congrats on the bolster removal and the good healing report, Twocat. Keep up the good work.

No more ice cream for the dog, eh Spacityrunner? Don’t tell Tag!

Well-inflated bike tires are nice, aren't they, Starr?

I hope your presentations go well today, Evanflein, and that you can get in your trail run today.

I was very tired this morning, so I slept an extra hour, and ended August with a goose-egg instead of a workout. Then the coffee filter clogged, so I had coffee dripping across the counter and onto the floor instead of into the pot when it should have finished brewing, and then my hay fever kicked in enough to make me start sweating from sneezing so much. So my day can only (has to) get better, eh?

Have a greta Thursday!

Jay

4 pretty good miles this morning. 63° and foggy.

I made it to 5:00 yesterday and signed off the system. My morning email shows that a enterprise project manager asked for a status update at 5:04. Too bad for her, eh?  I've been on and off this project for 15+ months and I have 300 hours invested. But I couldn't get the time of day from anyone else when I needed it. Not even running through the building naked ringing a cowbell could get their attention.

Now "they" decide it needs to be finished in 3 days?  And oh, by the way, here is some additional functionality we need in the system? I've been around too long to get too stressed by these shenanigans, but I can't say it doesn't aggravate me.

After a couple years of mostly K-cup coffee I've decided I'd like something better.  So I dug through some unpacked boxes and found my french press.  I couldn't find my grinder though. I may have given it away.  I ordered a manual burr grinder from Amazon which should arrive today.  It'll take a couple minutes to crank the coffee beans but I didn't want to buy an expensive, noisy, electric model.  Now I just have to find some relatively fresh beans and I could be enjoying a real cup of coffee this afternoon.

Jay - that'll teach ya for sleeping in an extra hour eh? 

I think the best coffee ever is french pressed coffee. beats any fancy coffee machine ever. I have a small french press at my office that I should really use more often. I tend to just use the coffee machine out of pure laziness. but the couple minutes it takes to make a french press coffee is worth it. That's it. I'm making FP coffee tomorrow!

good thing I'm going to my dentist for my permanent crown this afternoon, because my temporary popped out when I flossed last night. It has been in since beginning of July so i'm sure the adhesive was not very strong anymore. I don't think it's because I was flossing too violently. 

I might hit up the gym again after work, since David won't be home for dinner anyways, so we likely won't do much. He is working/volunteering an Open House for freshman this evening.

I don't know how much I'll be around the next couple of weeks.  If I make it through this last deadline, I might actually survive this thing.

I saw my MAT therapist on Tuesday.  Basically I have an unstable pelvis (which I knew) and bad hip rotation on the right.  The gist is it's all putting pressure where we don't want pressure.  After a 1.5 hr assessment/"PT" session with him and 2 rounds of exercises on my own at home Tues night/Wed a.m., I was able to sit quite a bit at work yesterday.  Things started barking toward late in the day and during my dinner out with friends, but I haven't sat that much that comfortably anywhere but on my couch at home in a long time.  This morning at work I've been able to do about 1/2 and 1/2 sitting/standing.  He's asked me to not take anything for inflammation so we can make sure nothing is being masked.

I tell ya, he hit some pressure points on my ole bod that just about sent me off the table, including the spot I've been having lots of trouble with in my - eh hem - crotch area.  Holy freaking crap, it hurt!  His comment before digging into a couple of spots - "We're about to get personal here, so hold on."   I don't care how personal he gets if he can make all this go away.

No running 'til I go back and see him on the 19th and we see how things are doing. Which is fine by me at this point.  I'm so overwhelmed at work right now, I can barely think straight.

 Not even running through the building naked ringing a cowbell could get their attention.

 

 

But I still think you should give it a try, eh?

...what a relief twocat..........

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50-min PoolRun

using poolrunning belts the Y put in about 6-years ago,

at one point we had about 5-poolrunners,

this will be

my 11th year,

and I can use ANY belt I want..................they all quit

also

my new trunks stayed on,,,,,,,,,,which is re-assuring

...........wishing you Good Work-Outs and twocat solid food

five morning miles in a rare mist.

After yesterday's fiver to celebrate a record 64 consecutive days of temps into the seventies, a very light micro-mist tried its best to try to get things back to the normal running-in-the-rain we're used to but, though it tried its best, it didn't work as the sun won out and Seattle's back to what we used to think summer is supposed to be like if you don't live in the PNW.  I tried to get out in the early morning darkness in the morning mist but it didn't work as the sunrise got too strong got too strong to let any little mist remain around long enough to enjoy it.

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Leslie -  good idea to go on the DL until 9/19

to avoid complicating the re-evaluation.

ps - knowing you can't run should make it a lot easier

to focus on all those applications, etc.  I hope so.

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good job 2C on the timely nipping the cancer in the bud.

Was it a bump or something that you first noticed?

Is your taste and talking going to be okay?

Maybe a second opinion on the four month gap,

before check-ups, at least initially, but I guess

the docs know the growth rates, etc. 
I'm still wondering about the ten years

between colonoscopies but, so far, so good.

good luck.

ps dave - might as well try it sometime.

DS running a fever so had to go get him from preschool, so an URD for me

A surgeon is very unlikely to say for sure he/she has got all the cancer simply due to liability issues.

The fact that  further surgery is not needed is the evidence that they are confident in the thought.