Mornin' everyone.

Monday’s workouts:
Tomwhite (Xbiking & racing crutches at the Y)
RunnerKSA (10K at 9:50 pace with AG win)
Twocat (6 miles, slow with photos)
Dave (fast 5K [27:22], snagging 1st place AG)
Catwhoorg (18+ sweaty, weight-losing miles, with 2 X 20 min at tempo)
Pfriese (EZ 5 round-the-park morning miles)
Henrun (5 mile walk to the Commons, then subway home)
Stumpy (Fishing instead of running)
Rochrunner (19.7 bike miles with a stop for coffee and free pie)
Holly (5.5 miles in 75-ish temps and 30 min of weights/core)

Mike (7.1 miles with speedwork in the rain)

Evanflein (3.25 afternoon miles on tired legs)

Spacityrunner (5.5 evening, knarley-ass trail miles)

Tomwhite, Ribs is posting more on FB than here, and seems to be OK with doing some running, and continuing to enjoy playing bridge.

Excellent racing, RunnerKSA and Dave - congrats on your awards (and on your post-race feast, Dave)! Nice photos, Dave.

Nice vid with photos, Twocat - especially the overpass…

7 lbs is a lot to lose on one run, Cat, even if it was over 18 miles. I hope you put at least a couple back on afterwards.

Good behavior, Pfriese. Keep up the good work.

Sorry about the knee problem, Henrun. I hope it is short-term.

I’m glad you were happy with your decision, Stumpy, even if no fish bit. Sorry about closing the camp.

Good workout weekend, Rochrunner, and nice scoring some free pie on your ride.

I’m glad you got some reading and running time, Holly.

I’m so sorry about the apparent increasing smoke/fire hazards, Tammy. I sure hope this all clears soon, and that you don't have to evacuate.

Sounds like a great haul from your veggie garden this year, Evanflein. Good job of taking it easy (with running) yesterday.

Enjoy the coming cold front, Spacityrunner.

We did a little site-clearing yesterday for a storage shed we want to put in next to our wood shed. We have a 1 car garage, and there isn’t room for the snowblower, lawn mower, log splitter, wagons, and lots of other stuff we try to keep in there along with the car. We ordered the shed, and it should be her in about 45-60 days.

6.9 RW miles at J o'clock in breezy 64° temps on fatigued legs, but I still managed a modicum of a decent pace.

Have a greta Tuesday!

Jay

Thanks jay.
Sorry you gave in to the siren call of another morning RW run and chickened out the longer sleep that most people would need, and more, to do what you do everyday. KSA too.

Thanks for passing on FB messages.
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Did stumps go fishing?
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five miles in the smoke and haze

so much smoke and haze up here from tammy-land that the sunrise/set are an hour after-and-before schedule and the moon is too faint an orange orb once it gets higher up into the sky for any more of the weekend’s planned moonrise swimming. Even wore a gauze mask for the bridge crossing and downtown parts of this morning’s fiver.
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KSA - our best multi-event combination used to be 19.3 morning miles in the now defunct Seafair 5K at 7am followed by a half marathon at 7:30 iu Bellevue, WA and a drive to nearby Tiger Mountain for a 5K trail run at 11am.

Dave - sorry you missed the 28th anniversary of your Charleston Distance Run but not sure why as you’re definitely in good enough shape to run 15 miles.  I don’t relate to being competitive anymore, if ever, but, maybe with you still being able to chalk up AG hardware, I guess it wouldn’t be as competitive as you can still like.  However, hope you can run it in 2019 no matter what.  Congratulations on the ten pounds, and cattywampus’s seven.   With that much weight loss in 18 miles, you’ll be losing 54.4 pounds for your IM!
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2C . . . I will swim here and there
. . . . .  I will swim without a care
. . . . .  I will swim anywhere
It probably helps that most of us
who grew up in rain country have webbed feet.
However, I do not like back-and-forth like a horizontal yoyo in chlorine so, as long as I can still sidestroke, dog-paddle, backstroke, etc., that’s my excuse for not training for triathlons either. .
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The beauty of triathlons is being able to range out over your head and out into the middle of lakes that would otherwise be off-limits for us poor swimmers, . . . to say nothing being able to do safe cycling full speed ahead though otherwise closed freeways and intersections just like reckless skiing days of the past.  
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ps starr - for sure, do the first timers.
You’ll love it.
                                
Erika - a concerned mama moose was one of my scariest encounters too but nothing like it happening while flying down the middle of the famed “The Chute” up there.  However, I’d often add, “how are ya doin’? just in case I surprised some hapless hikers coming around the corner so they’d think I saw them first instead of just yelling out loud to myself and the yogis.  On hikes with GS last summer,  we’d do songs and poems with me on the first part and him hollerin’ the last rhyming words as loudly as possible.   

Any blueberry action up there this year?
I may have picked too many blackberries this weekend.

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Has anyone ever had a job so repetitive that it becomes a dream?
Mine are endless salmon coming up the cannery conveyor belt, same streaming through a weir window into the spawning lake, . . . . and now picking so many blackberries this weekend, I dreamed about retrieving beach ball size ones from big oaks.

thanks jay//........but scratch me on those work-outs,

decided to spend the day with a Back Spasm instead

and

they say we're not Fun People

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got two pre-cancers frozen off my face*

(*see

''Fun People'' comment above)

45-min on the x-bike

and

a MonsterStorm decided I WASN'T going PoolRunning

...Pickles and Buddies

are stuck over in Ireland,

and

have already

let me know

they will miss the connecting flight in Atlanta

...........so I'm thinking Pizza Night.......

good running to ya

Sorry about the smoke making it's way up to you in Tet-Land  (although now i guess there's a pretty big one just east of Portland near Multnomah area). I don't wish this bad air on anyone. Sure wish Texas would have shared some of their rain with us though. 

took today off work and went to gym this morning and ran 6 on the TM. David's first day of school today, although not really a day for him but he helps with freshmen orientation so he's there anyways. tomorrow will be his official first day of classes. He opted not to take a first period this year though so he gets to sleep in a bit later each morning.

it's been tradition since K that I make him a snack or treat of some type for the first day back to school. This year his request was a lemon-poppyseed cake, so that's what is in the oven now. I've never used cake flour to make a cake before, just use all purpose but this time I thought I'd try that to see what difference it makes in the cake texture. Plus, I used buttermilk, soaked my poppy seeds and even fresh squeezed the lemons for the juice in the recipe and for the simple syrup and glaze to pour over it. Better turn out mouthwatering good after all that work.   and if it does turn out good, I might have to run another 6 miles on the TM tomorrow.

That's amazing that you ran 11 miles already after what you've been through!  Tough dude!   Great about the eating, too!

thanks jay//........but scratch me on those work-outs,

decided to spend the day with a Back Spasm instead

 

and

they say we're not Fun People

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got two pre-cancers frozen off my face*

 

(*see

''Fun People'' comment above)

 

 and {{{TomWhite}}} at the same time.

Rest day for me on Tuesday.