We, too, are getting the rain that's hitting Oregon.  It's wreaking havoc on The Hub being able to work. . . which means he stays home and bakes.   

 

He can ship some of his baked goods to me.  I wouldn't want your butt to get to big.  JS   It's what friends are for 

MTB 14M in the coldest 55deg.

2/3 of those miles were on trails, so I'm calling it 20M !
(Where's Econo, else my joke is wasted.)

Hey Jay, planning on the Lir, Sat, shortly after 2.

-Craig

Hello, runners!   It's been a pretty exciting 24 hours for yours truly.  After finding that my elbow, which I had thought was going to be a loooooong time healing, has actually returned to about 90% usage (maybe only 50% strength in that arm, but for swimming I appear to be good!), I signed up yesterday for the Empire State Senior Games, in June.  10 weeks from tomorrow.  My events will be the Individual Medleys (100 yard and 200 yard), Back stroke (also 100 and 200 yards), Freestyle (200) and Breast Stroke (50). For the past two weeks since returning the pool for the first time in 3 months, I've been swimming mostly backstroke and freestyle and have worked my way back up to almost a mile and a half per session.  So tomorrow I'm going to do butterfly for the first time since Fall, and take a stab at 6 100 yard IM repeats with plenty of rest in between, just to do them.  I've booked the Hotel room in Central NY, with a suite so that my daughter, the swimmer, can tag along if she likes.   
Oh, and I also found out that the historic figure I will be portraying in the next Historic Walking Tour at the Albany Rural Cemetery in May is one Erastus Dow Palmer; he is of great renown in this area, as he was commissioned to sculpt a number of the memorials in that beautiful old cemetery, including his masterpiece, "The Angel at the Sepulchre".  (Given the choice I'd rather be the Angel, but the roles are assigned and not picked by the participants.) 

Sometime between now and the day of the event I'll have to have someone show me how to upload photos on this site.

Better Than Yesterday

8.1 EZ

I dodged the atmospheric river and got my miles in the afternoon under windy overcast skies. I might have been a bit too relaxed, I wasn't paying attention and tripped on a raised piece of asphalt. This is one of times I had the presence of mind to do a Judo roll. I escaped with a scuffed palm, elbow and knee, not much blood, but my palm is still a little numb. Cement is harder than dirt, btw.

Leslie; $225/hr sounds about right for an independent contractor. Also, Fortuna cemetery is awesome. Why is it so big and fancy compared to other places on the North coast?

On Science Friday radio program today they talked to the author of Good To Go, a book about exercise recovery. Everything we've been told is a lie. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-book-tackles-real-science-sports-recovery

Holly and Erika shared their lovely photos from their recent marathon in Hawaii.    It was about the opposite of that last Saturday here in chilly central Indiana in a pouring rain.   No lava fields.   Culverts were all full of water.    And this what a drenched runner looks like, even if he does mug for the camera.

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Hello everybody!

Great picture, Joe...but it doesn't quite compare to Holly and Erika's...

I got in 8 miles, after work.

I didn't sleep well, last night, and it was a rough day.

Okay--that's all I got.  See ya!

Oops, while I was browsing around the forums, I stumbled upon one of your daily one from last year and wrote in there. Sorry about that, newbie mistake.

not that it ever happens to us, . . .

especially when trying to quote from a previous thread.

Joe - way to pretend like you’re having fun in the rain.
(I won’t tell twocat you really are).
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BTY - in addition to the Halloween assignment, it's fantastic to be able to look forward to a challenging sr. competition to see how well you can (still) do.  I have lots of things I’m looking forward to too but none of them represent any kind of challenge of whether or not I can do it or, if so, how well. .
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Three Hillside Park trail miles (659 stairs)
After only two overnight, drizzly fizzles so far this week for the first two of this week’s predicted five incoming Pacific storms that should be treating Seattle like Tammy-and-Leslie-land too, storm no. 3 arrived this afternoon with a such a vengeance as to require invoking subsection (a) to the second exception to not running in the rain that, if it’s okay to race in the rain, subsection (a) logically allows training in the rain for a race later this month that’s likely to be in the rain too, . . . even if the so-called “training” is mainly just checking out rain gear unused since the Seattle Marathon rainfest last November).  

With new leaves in the hillside forest land hardly able to restrain themselves in the face of the long-awaited hydration, winter’s bare browns were becoming a vibrant green all over the place almost in front of my eyes. Listening to the wind rustling through the new leaves and the added splish-splashing of the rain drops couldn’t have been made more enchanting by a Mozart sonata.

Tom - wish you oculd have joined me.

ps - bring your violin.

.. .

. . . a buddy suggested my Hip PT stairs exercises (which actually helped a lot..........120 reps each leg twice daily)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPufc37Sw_I go to 7:00

Jay - I think “retirement” is having someplace to live and food to eat without having to worry about working to pay for it and being able to do whatever you like, be it from couch potato to world traveler, also without having to worry about working to pay for it either, even if it’s still doing what you used to have to do but like enough to still be doing it when you don’t have to.  Still getting paid for it is sometimes a nice bonus.

MTB 14M in the coldest 55deg.

2/3 of those miles were on trails, so I'm calling it 20M !
(Where's Econo, else my joke is wasted.)

 

Hey Jay, planning on the Lir, Sat, shortly after 2.

-Craig

Wow............. my butterfly wings is so happy to see ThePro....here

Before you know it, we will have McSolar posting too

Joe, that is one beautiful race picture of yours. You look so happy and powerful.

BTY, your post made me smile. Good luck on your next gig.

Tamster, enjoy the rain. The same weather is expected here too.

Leslie, good for your friend. 225 an hour is a good starting wage

Anzlo, where in Oregon? Enjoy your running in the rain adventure.

Great to see so many great running miles here today. As for me, I did not run, just giving a few extra days to "Knee" to stop barking at me.

Tonight my DH and I drove up north to attend a really informative lecture on the butterflies of the Okanogan. The presenter is one of the top researcher on butterflies in our state, if not the PNW. Today I learned that out of the 155 recorded butterflies in our state, 122 are found in the Okanogan County. Yeap, I can 't wait to get out there hiking and start identifying them all .

Yours truly, mariposai.