Mornin' everyone.

Always a sad day...

Sunday’s workouts:
RunnerKSA (2.4 miles)
Tramps (50 morning mike miles in gorgeous weather)
Pfriese (6.8 round-town morning miles)
Stumpy (3.85 morning lake loop miles)
Twocat (1 hr on the elliptical)
Holly (20 miles in 50-60° temps in 3:43)
Tammy (2.4 morning miles, catching up to pace bunny)
Spacityrunner (8.2 hernando trail miles with hillage for longest run since 6/16)
Mike (6 miles)
Dave (45 min walk up and down big hill)
Mariposai (run at the summit in clear air)

Evanflein (13.7 bike path & trail miles)

Nice week’s worth of running KSA and Tammy.

Congrats on the new marathon record, Tramps.  (Grins)

Sounds like a great time in Toronto, Henrun.

Yes, Stumpy - DW gets the cash and I get the hat. Thanks for the update on Amy.

That’s a heck of a lot of Hatch chilies, Twocat! Enjoy the soup.

Good 20-miler, Holly.

Congrats on the long run, Spacityrunner.

There is no good side to hurricanes, Mike. I hope your DIL’ s FIL is OK. Good luck to your girls too, Dave.

Congrats on getting outside for a run, Mariposai.

It's OK to have 'just' a near-40 mile week, Evanflein, especially when you are recovering/tapering.

We had a casual dinner with a couple of neighbors last night. Everyone contributed and we had cheese (blue brie, mushroom brie, and an herbed goat cheese) and crackers; melon skewers with salt, pepper flakes and jalapeño; then paella with 2 sausages, scallops and shrimp; spinach salad with strawberries and blueberries (from one neighbor); and plum torte (from the other neighbor). Good times and good eats.

It was too nice not to go out this morning, so I went 4.4 RW miles at J o'clock in 50° temps, and under a nice half moon. I took it really EZ the first 2 miles, and then picked it up for the rest. Nice.

Have a greta Monday!

Jay

50°, foggy, 4-miles this morning.

Power is out at the kids' house in Tallahassee. Worst of the wind and rain is expected there around 11:00 AM but it isn't expected to be too much of anything.

...mornin' guys...........

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60-min walking without cane

(hold your applause)

.......not unusual with OA of the hips........

could be

hobbled tomorrow

there

is literally no '' Cause and Effect''  with this

...................Good Work-Outs to ya

7 on the TM once DW got home (she worked this am, my office shut all day)

Weather so far a non-event for us. Supposed to pick up in the next couple of hours, but still we are fairly sheltered by the topography.

Glad to read most of the gang and their friends and loved ones are clearing through Irma relatively unscathed. From the pictures some areas were badly flooded with any number of buildings totaled.

 

evanflein hmm, Florida versus Alaska. Let me see. Florida, last major hurricane to hit anywhere in the state, Charlie in 2004. Now consider Anchorage Alaska. A search on the net reveals: an average winter snowfall of 75.5 inches. That is SEVEN FEET of snow!!!!  On average! That, does not even begin to convey what I think when I see your regular sub zero temperature pictures each winter. I think I would rather risk the hurricanes. Happy you like Alaska and that a whole pile of others like Alaska. But, me, I would be heading to Florida if I had to pick.

 

I ran 7 miles this morning. Happy to have had company via a call from mariposai to cheer me along. I am not much of a conversationalist at the moment. I can talk, but not for long, not loudly and I slur a lot of words. Kind of like talking to Daffy Duck I think.

TC, aren't you a business professor?  That's barely over 6feet. Thought you'd be better with numbers. And at a birthday party yesterday, everyone there agreed that they would rather have blizzards than the floods, fires, hurricanes going around the country at the moment.

Ha, Twocat, yes Stumpy is right, but you're looking at Anchorage where they generally do get more snow than we do but their weather is generally pretty crappy anyway. We get hotter summers and colder winters, but it's ok because the sunshine in the winter here is brilliant, unlike their overcast, grey drippy days. But no, I prefer to have my weather be relatively consistent and dependable. We may get more rain sometimes than we used to, but flooding is not a big issue (anymore, thanks to the flood control project). But things like tornadoes and hurricanes, where some outrageously powerful and destructive force comes down from the sky to tear apart your house and life, no thanks. We don't have snakes, either, another big plus in my book.

Carolyn, I tease DH that I might try a 50 miler some day, but I'm in no rush. But no thanks to the 100 milers! There's a new timed ultra here that goes for either 12 or 24 hours in the peak daylight time of late June that I might be tempted to try, just cuz that sounds kind of cool, but not where you have to get from point A to point B with those distances. Glad you had fun with your friend!

So far so good on the weather. We had showers last night but it's been dry pretty much all day today. All we really need is a dry day or two before the race so the trails will be runnable. After the fall I took in 2014, I get a little spooked about mud on this course.

Hello everybody!

I went 2 miles with the team then did 3 x 1 miles of speed work with 1/2 mile recovery between each then, as I was doing my cool down, I came upon a girl from the team who was not having a good day and was struggling back to school so I ran in with her.  Total was 8.7.

Okay--that's it.  Gotta go.  See ya.

 

(hold your applause)

 

 

Not on your life!  (hugely clapping)

RunnerKSA - glad your sister is safe.

Twocat - I am with you. Erika's bitter temps and snow are EVERY year, and hurricanes are not.  Still, I would prefer neither...

Carolyn - you are just, well, awesome!  Great job as pacer!

No run for me today, nada.  DD had a morning dr apt and I decided to sleep in late (with DD) after DH left with MIL for early airport dropoff.  DD has strep throat, as it turns out, first time for that.

Back at it tomorrow.