Mornin' everyone.

Sunday’s workouts:
Holly (5.7 miles in 74° and 87% H)
RunnerKSA (12.1 trail miles in NE PA in cloudy/humid conditions)
Spacityrunner (5 early morning miles with friends)
RCG (walking the Winthrop loop with Leonidas in 98° temps)
Mike (6 post-church miles)
Evanflein (Gold Discovery Run race in 2:21.10 - 7th woman and 1st AG)

Twocat (1 hr on the elliptical)

Wildchild (5.3 post-afternoon thunderstorm miles)

Where is Starr this morning?

Good weeding cross training, Holly.

You sure get around, RunnerKSA - Boston last week, NE PA this week.

Did you stay awake though yoga, Spacityrunner?

I believe that 62 is the minimum age for a lifetime Nat Parks pass, RCG. I’ve played Hearts and Slam Uno, but that is as far as I’ve gone with card games. Cute story about the kid at church.

Anyone who enjoys running is a success story, RunnerKSA, including your DD.

Evanflein, I am even more impressed with your racing yesterday after looking at the course profile - Yikes! I agree that dancing may not be the best race prep...

Twocat, after a great get-away, it's not so back to be back. Actually, I'm looking forward to digging into a few issues. What happened to this year's RTB?

Sounds like you had a great trip too, Wildchild.

Yesterday was in the low 70s and relatively dry, so a good day to mow the lawn (where's Mike when I need him?) and make a sizeable dent in the weeding that needs to be done. Deer ate every leaf on a prized hosta right by our front door, and also (for the 1st time) dined on DW's hydrangea tree. I'll have to remember to deer-proof them next year, but it is too late for this year.

Scheduled Rest Day for me today, so just some extra reading and stretching this morning.

Have a greta Monday!

Jay

Welcome back Jay and Tramps! Sounds like you both had a good week away. Hope you both enjoyed the R&R and are ready to get back into your normal routine. Speaking of truck drivers Tramps, I was listening to NPR a few weeks ago and they interviewed an over-the-road truck driver. His name is Finn Murphy, and he wrote a book about his experiences. It's called "The Long Haul." I just finished it, and it gave me a totally different perspective on long haul truck drivers. It's a quick read, and really interesting.

Thanks for the excellent recap again Jay! You were missed.

6.2 miles this morning in much more pleasant weather conditions. The heat and humidity finally pulled out of here yesterday. This has been one of the worst summers for weather that I can remember. DH and I played in a husband/wife golf tournament yesterday and had to stop 3 times for flash downpours. The golf course had standing water everywhere, and the sand traps were more like lakes. We took second place (lost first in a tiebreaker) and we're still talking so all is good

Hope Starr is having fun in Germany, that Mike got Eric's lawnmower back and the deer leave Jay's garden alone. And congrats to Erika on finishing 1st in her AG at the Gold Discovery Run.

Have a great start to your week everyone!

Welcome back jay - still no rain here on no. 37 rainless day in a row since June 17.

Hope mariposai is not stuck at 90^o on one of those mountains back

in her usually sunniest town in the state.

Welcome back Tramps.  My IM mentor rides lots of mountains

around here but only if good shoulders.

Otherwise, stationary bike.  Be careful.

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Nice trail racing Erika, especially on anything that would be classified

as "technical" up there. I never hear of technical trail racing

until I came down the the PNW; it's just regular trail running up there.

Though somewhat scenic, Rosie's marathon and deci down a little SE of Erika-land are all on paved shoulders so hope there'll be an opportunity to get up into the alpines, in the coastal range even if it means using the tram up Mt. Roberts.  Better year is Mt. Jumbo (Bradley) right behind the marathon start/finish.  It only takes an hour-and-a-half to the remaining alpine snow patches and ice-melt ponds, etc.  I don't think I could now but I once took DS's cub scout den up there right afterwards.

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GS duty

Yesterday was first time in my life now 8-yo GS wore out before me as he opted out of another evening Seafair neighborhood parade after all day at the Seattle Center climbing up the webbed mountain, harnessed between two bungee ropes to bounce high off a mini-trampoline, briefly trying to avoid getting wet in the Seattle Fountain and the giving up with dozens of other drenched kids, free food samples all over the place including two places giving out regular-size sample ice cream bars at the annual Bite of Seattle. dinosaur museum before monorailing back downtown to the Seattle Public Library and four escalators up to the tenth floor overlook, 62nd floor SkyView at the Columbia Towers, etc. etc.

Giant water slides at Splash-n-Slide this afternoon. Since he's a good swimmer on his own now, I hope to employ yesterday's observer strategy, find a pool-side lounge chair and just look.

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The 40 miler included plenty of hills, a bear and cubs crossing the road, gun shots that I suspect were fired near us for amusement, lots of horn-honking and an incoherent rant from a tractor-trailer wood truck driver who was very pissed that we were on his relatively small hilly mountain road, and plenty of rain…so that was interesting.

Maybe a little *too* interesting? The gun shots and truck driver would be enough to turn me back. I'd rather take my chances with the bears!

Welcome back, Jay. Sure glad we don't have hosta-eating deer around here, but then I don't think we can grow hostas outside much anyway. So far, so good with the moose around here, but I swear the secret is not growing peas. Since I stopped growing peas, my moose problem pretty much went away.

Tet, if you don't think there are technical trails around here, it's obviously been too long since you've been on them. The easiest are the root-filled wooded trails, but the Equinox out-and-back is full of rocks, ruts and roots so certainly meets the "technical" term. The mining roads we were on yesterday are full of washouts, ruts, rocks, roots and puddles/mud. You need to come back and check it out! One guy wore the five-fingers footwear yesterday, and someone commented they could tell where he'd been by his toe prints in the mud. 

Rainy, grey, gloomy and windy out there today. Seems like we got Seattle weather for the day! I'm thinking it's a rest day today since only two so far in July and I'm tired. I might do a short 3 miles or so on the treadmill tonight to try out my new New Balance Fresh Foam shoes I got earlier this month. The search for shoes continues, but I do like those Kinvara 8's I got recently. The Kinvara 6's ran their last race yesterday and need to be retired.

Tramps gun shots! That would certainly have been enough to send me back home.

coastwalker so far things for the fan club do not look good. I am waaaay short runners for this year's Reach the Beach Relay. Where are my master runners!  Other than mariposai I am betting a big fat zero! Absent some major change, I fear the team will be sidelined this year. 

Rain almost all day here. That canceled my run with my training partner. It stuck around long enough to totally cancel my run today as well. Instead it was an hour on the elliptical again. Tomorrow is track day.

...a thought for bty//.............remember to goto the 3:1 if you need to, it feels like Running, and it takes the strain off temporarily..........

...a thought for bty//.............remember to goto the 3:1 if you need to, it feels like Running, and it takes the strain off temporarily..........

3 parts tequila, 1 part lime juice, omit the triple sec?