Jay o’cloc Departure for the airport. Off to LA for DD’ s graduation. It’s been a long interesting journey for all of us.

Good running, walking, and life in general

Mornin' Stumpy, Mike, and everyone else.

Have a great trip, and congrats to your DD and you too, Stumpy!

Wednesday’s workouts:
RunnerKSA (3.3 morning miles +2 post-work, pre-sushi TM miles)
Tramps (5 early droopy miles)
Dave59 (3.7 sweaty morning park miles)
Quickadder (5.1 EZ steamy morning miles with DD)
 Fatozzig (1+ hr of morning core/ST)
Pfriese (early 8.25 park miles)
C-R (6.2 TM miles with sore calf)
Twocat (1 hr on the elliptical - no matches)
TammyGP (3 early morning miles while DH had a kidney blast)
Mike (lifting weights)
Falconfixer (5.6 morning miles)
Wildchild (3 evening miles ‘round the hood)
Evanflein (8.1 evening miles in nice weather)

I hope that crowd wasn’t bigger that the inauguration, Tramps!   Running the ad is a class act. Kudos to the Caps.

Congrats on the successful dentist appt. Dave. I always take the long tangents on my workouts, so I’m all over the road. But there is very little traffic at the hour I’m out, and I can hear them before they see me, so I can move over if needed.

Holly, it’s good that you get to enjoy your dogs, coming or going.

Good luck to your DH, Tammy, and to you both at this weekend’s grad. party.

Back when I used to run, I saw a guy sitting on a curb, having a smoke, just before the NY Marathon. I didn’t understand how someone could smoke and run then, and I still don’t.

Have you ever thought about running for office, Steve?

I have too much on my plate, and had to back out on a project planned for today. And I’m getting a little stressed over the first of 3 workshops on flooding that we are hosting next Tuesday (registrations are much higher than we expected), and a grant application for a project I really want to do that is due early in July. And last night, our neighbor let me know that the new dam (as of Dec.) at the pond across the street is leaking. Just what I need... I woke at 2 this morning, and only got about a half hour's sleep after that. No workout today - just head work.

Have a greta Thursday!

Jay

I have too much on my plate, and had to back out on a project planned for today. And I’m getting a little stressed over the first of 3 workshops on flooding that we are hosting next Tuesday (registrations are much higher than we expected), and a grant application for a project I really want to do that is due early in July. And last night, our neighbor let me know that the new dam (as of Dec.) at the pond across the street is leaking. Just what I need... I woke at 2 this morning, and only got about a half hour's sleep after that. No workout today - just head work.

  

Jay, you need to delegate more! True, the things you delegate may not get done quite as well as if you had done them yourself, but that is better than some of them not getting done at all.

I used to have problems delegating and signed up to attend a course on how to delegate better, but ended up sending someone else in my place.

Jay o’cloc Departure for the airport. Off to LA for DD’ s graduation. It’s been a long interesting journey for all of us.

 

 

...Enjoy it stumpy......

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mid 90s

.......65-min HH 3-2s

gonna take

my own advice

and

buy some V-8

for this Hot Stuff

.................Good Running to Ya.........

I was out early to drive to the Wichita Mts Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma for a morning run to the top of Mt. Scott. It's a beautiful area near my small hometown. It's 3 miles to the top (1000 feet above surrounding prairie)  via a paved road which is closed to vehicular traffic before 9:30am. Makes for a great place to go for a run. Anyways, 6 miles total for my run this morning.

The road to the base of the mountain.

A view from the top. My car is parked by the fork in the road.

Another view from the top. My wife & I got married 42 years ago near this spot.

A bison coming up to cross the road. I took the photo out the car window. Mt. Scott is the flat topped mountain on the horizon.

And a bison that had already crossed the road.

The Garmin map of this morning's run.

Paul

Mta: I saw other wildlife on my run; a snake, a roadrunner, & a ringtail cat (related to racoons). but no pictures of them. It was the first time I had ever seen a ringtail in this area.

Paul - that looks like a lovely place to run!

Leslie - if I take Benadryl, I am down for the count in an hour or so - no way could I work.  You have stamina!

{{{Jay}}} - you work too hard, but all for such great causes.  Your community is very lucky to have you.

Low humidity made the morning run fee almost chilly.  5.4 miles total.

Stumpy, We're aching to see pictures. Proud parents rock.

Have you ever thought about running for office, Steve?

I used to dance and strip for tips. Once a lady hired me to dress like a ballerina. Go to where her husband worked and sing happy birthday. I hadn't shaved all week, I was bench pressing 135% of my body weight, I cut the top to nearly my navel, put horrid runs in the stockings, wore army boots, had the wig on half sideways, my face was painted like Heath Ledger's Joker and I had the butt of a huge cigar.

Twice, the Michigan State police helped me off the stage while doing karaoke. I'm reasonably sure it wasn't for being a good singer. A few of the bar staff were the only ones who were not laughing. Even the police weer amused. (I wasn't arrested.but was not allowed to drive home).  Then there's a few embarrassing things and things I may have blacked out through.

Leslie, my Dr has suggested Allegra. The generic runs less than $10.00 a month.All I have to do is run out to remember why I started taking it.

Henrun, it sounds nice.

Paul, Greta pictures. Our dog would like the buffalo.

DW had a birthday today!! A gentleman remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.

We went someplace really nice. The place-mat was also the menu! And it also had pictures of the food!! AND There were puzzles on the back of the place-mats too! SaaWeet!!! I kept loosing to tic-tac-toe, but it was still really nice for DW's special day.  I let her ride in the truck where the dogs normally sit. She was so happy she couldn't stop crying. I did really good!

Then I read her the poem you guys helped me with:

My love for you burns like a rash from poison sumac.

So really big and powerful and sweet as elevator Mazak.

We been through storm, wind and pelting rain.

And when we’re apart I feel so much pain.

Kind of similar to a tooth ache when you’ve got stuck corn niblets.

Or the ongoing agony like when you kick me in the giblets.

My love for you is really swell.

Maybe one day my poems to you will really start to sell.

When she finally unlocks the door and comes out of the bathroom, I'm going to get some sweet loving. Sorry lady's, I'm taken.

Thanks all!!!

. . . decompressing . . . after . . . mammogram

Seriously? No one else picked up on this?? 

SteveP - The ladies have no idea what they're missing out on.

Anyone wish they could be on Falconfixer's flight tomorrow?

The Hub just went next door and talked to the neighbor because they're dog is in the back yard and has barking and whining almost non-stop for the last 20+ min.  Ends up they were having some kind of religious event and put him back there to get him out from under foot.  He's stopped barking, so I guess they let him back inside.

I'm trying to decide if I should stop running until my butt feels better and cancel my race at the end of next month . . . .