Mornin' everyone.

Good pool work and weighted squats, Holly. Nice 4 mill miles, Dave - I'm glad the resolution crowds are thinning for you. Nice work on the greenway, TW, and good learning from the other senior walker. Nice 10K in the field house, Spinach, with some barefoot work too. Good easy 6 to and back from the park, Paul. Nice recovery 4 on the TM, BerthaSlayer. What's tabata? Good chainsawing cross-training, with a fire reward, Enke. Good 6.6 on the TM, Catwhoorg. That's a wake up call I wouldn't want to get daily. Nice 8.2 snowy miles, Deeze. Good luck with the ACLS certification. Good 8 miles on the track with a shoveling warm-up Mike. Nice 5.2 on the TM with a TM maintenance warm-up, Evanflein. Maybe you can get a real service person (instead of the kid) on the phone today. Good post-work 2, Steve.

I took Dave's reluctance to provide specific numbers as a reaction to the absurd discussions about which inauguration had more attendees.

Sounds like it'll be a great meet-up in Phoenix on 2/25 with Holly, Evanflein, La Tortuga, Willrunforbeer and PDR!

I hope you are feeling better, and aren't dead today, Leslie.

Roch, are the tax-prep classes cross-training?

"I've heard people say once it's below -10 it's just all cold, but that's not true." Evanflien, whether or not that is true is a matter of perspective.

Mike, are you excited about the cold wave coming your way?

5.6 miles this morning in 20+mph wind-driven sleet and rain, with sleet and slush-covered roads. Even with my Yaks, it was tough to get slip-free footing, so my damnstring was complaining a bit by the time I got back. The only saving grace this morning was that the temps were relatively mild at 30F. Yeah, I was a little wet by the time I got back - my shoes should dry by March...

Have a greta Tuesday!

Jay

 

 

 

Mike, are you excited about the cold wave coming your way?

 

 

Just speaking for someone one state away from Mike and umm, no.  Even though we haven't seen the sun in like two weeks, the mild temps these last few days have been amazing. There's not a lot of snow left on the ground here, which is very unusual for the end of January. I ran 5.5 miles in 36° at 5:00 AM.  The streets are clear of ice which won't be the case later on today. There's 3-4 inches of snow predicted, then "seasonal" temps for the rest of the week. So enjoy it Erika, and thanks a lot!

Way to get out there in rotten weather today Jay, and take care of that damnstring! Thanks for your recap (I like to call these the Cliffnotes of the RA forum )

Off to feed the beasts. Have a great Tuesday everyone.

..... our 5 year old wanders into our room, says she feels bad, and throws up on the carpet!

 

Not the best alarm, but certainly effective.

 

I have a vague memory as a little kid of doing this exact same thing to my parents. Don't remember if I hit the floor or the bed. 

I'm slowly coming back to life.  Getting a good core workout with all the coughing, so there's that . . . . 

We're supposed to have a week of no rain. Yay!

 

 

 

Doug, block heaters are a requirement here. Any car you want to drive past October has to be "winterized" and the coolant is mixed to a -40 rating. I don't know what that involves, but it works. Most people have an oil pan heater and battery blanket or heater, too. Most parking lots at work sites have plug-ins and you're supposed to plug in at anything colder than +20 to help with the air quality issues we have in the winter. Most people don't until zero or so, but still. We pay $285 a year for parking here and that's to cover the electric and plowing costs. In the summer, it's fun to see tourists in the parking lot looking at the plug ins. I can only imagine what they're thinking!

Back in the olden days when I was a fledgling fisheries biologist, my supervisor, who lived in very upstate NY, told me that on a -20°+ morning, his block heater and the battery that he stored indoors for the night worked very nicely.  the car started properly, but the vinyl front seat shattered when he sat on it.

On a running note, all I will say is that Jay is a much more dedicated runner than I am.  I did make it out for 4 on Sunday.  Shorts in January is always a special treat.

Warm & windy on this singlet-wearing interval-training January day. Total of 7.3 miles (5x1000m, 400m recovery; + wu & cd) on a warm & windy day.

Paul

 

Doug, block heaters are a requirement here. Any car you want to drive past October has to be "winterized" and the coolant is mixed to a -40 rating. I don't know what that involves, but it works. Most people have an oil pan heater and battery blanket or heater, too. Most parking lots at work sites have plug-ins and you're supposed to plug in at anything colder than +20 to help with the air quality issues we have in the winter. Most people don't until zero or so, but still. We pay $285 a year for parking here and that's to cover the electric and plowing costs. In the summer, it's fun to see tourists in the parking lot looking at the plug ins. I can only imagine what they're thinking!

Thanks for the lesson, Erika.  I always wonder how life continues to function in such incredibly frigging cold conditions.  Amazes me.

Alas, I never made it past fledgling FS.  I regressed to an electrical engineer when the FS jobs were few and far between.  As much as I've enjoyed the EE gig, I always wonder what I missed out on.

nice.

kind of me too but, fortunately,

my FS only got supplemented,

not pre-empted, along the way.

However, why stumps?

Erika - no calls about the Oreo issue, but I got a call from the school principal about a new one.  (Given the fact that I am under huge stress at work, as is usual at the end of the month, I nearly burst into tears at the call.)  Apparently, DD and a friend were jokingly staging an argument on SnapChat, that was supposed to culminate into a fight.  Supposedly more than 100 kids showed up in the HS commons expecting a "girl-fight" that was in actuality just a joke.  Not funny.  DD may get suspended for causing an uproar, or some such.  DD says she actually posted nothing on her phone, that everything came from her friend's phone.  I will be meeting with the principal in the morning to discuss.  (sigh)