evanie -

it`s four miles to green lake for a circuit of the area`s biggest jogging mecca, . . .

 and site of March Dizzy Daze mary/ultra/etc. 

also can take convenient green lake bus and run around lake three times, to say nothing of visiting the local running stores

I`m finally getting back from the land of the hot/humid rising sun but hope to have new grandson down from the southeast part of your Great Land to greet me at airport.

are you at the cloud?

Tet, I'm staying at the same place as last time...

And Tet,  will you be in town Monday or Tuesday?

I thought I replied, but I don't see it.  Erika,  that sounds great to me.  short notice works fine.  I won't officially know if I have Monday and Tuesday off until Sunday Morning,  but I would be amazed if it didn't work out for me..  You have both my phone and E-mail,  with my new smart phone I am always in contact.  looking forward to seeing you kids Tuesday

Dave

(Tet, DH says hi and he missed you... as we all did... at the house last month!!!)

Erika and I keep saying that we need to start "planning" our Seattle trips together. I was glad to see that for once our wishes were coming true. Having dievechief, the local runner, available to meet with us and then later the vagabond Tetsujin was the icing on the cake (Francesca, Enkie and SRLopez, we missed you)

The Icon Grill is a fun place to meet morning, afternoon and evening. It is centrally located, good food, great decor and great wine listing. So, having two goddesses who enjoy good varietal of wine, this was the perfect place to meet. Erika and her boss had to catch a flight at around 8:30, so we met right after my first meeting was over, around 6 for me, earlier for the rest of the party. I am sorry guys if I was looking and sounded like a zombie. I had only 3 hours of sleep the night before thanks for the beeper.

Here we are after one glass of wine, a lot of laughter and much planning for our next get-together...we did our best NOT to talk about the Rock and Roll stories Of curse Erika and I both lamented missing the glorious sight of a certain running in pink and white gloves at the above mentioned marathon.

After a fabulous time together with Erika and her boss our diver chief and I decided to order dinner hoping that the vagabond would show up.

As we were just starting to nibble on our appetizer guess who showed up (sorry coach) with a bag full of presents, including this Geisha fan to help me keep my wings cool.

To Divechief's and I surprise we found out that the vagabond has almost forgotten to speak English. Of course we got a lesson on how to say shoes are bad for you, sandals are better, but barefeet is good for you in Japanesse. Ohhh Erika, you should have been there.

Here the taper boy is showing me the sandals he used to run up Mt. Fuji and to run his marathon around the Imperial Palace. Of course, the sandals look so much better on his feet.

After dinner Dave so graciously decided to show us Seattle at it's vest and from it's best view...the famous Space Needle, where we had another drink, of course.

Once again  the evening left me with pure joy of an evening with my cyberspace friends who through time has converted into heart and real life friends.

I missed this until just now! Thanks for posting the pictures!

And yes, Tet, I agree. The extra miles for the Equinox Ultra will be added after mile 25, so instead of turning right to finish down the hill, you turn left and head back up the hill towards the musk ox farm, then catch the trail at the 2 mile marker and back track to the finish. Sounds doable to me!