Morning dc.  Yes, more rain on the way and possibly a lot of wind from Joaquin.  I am really hoping it turns out to sea and not right up the coast! Anyways, got in 4 speedy (for me) miles last night at the gym followed by some stair time and a light workout.

QOTD: I got nothing too.

Have a great day!

8 miles on Echo Mt. Sunshine this morning but more rain comming.

OBMedic where are you starting your runs? Which forest service rds are you running?

We do have some flat places to run in NC mts. Run near a river or lake.

Estatoe trail  near Davidson river three miles of flat with trails on both sides add north slope trail four miles of hill. The bike trail across the road is flat for another three miles. Just park at Loews in Brevard.

Lake Summit in Saluda NC. 10 mile loop around lake. Sandy dirt road. Three hills the rest flat.

Both these routes are very popular.

Green River Cove RD  8 miles one way flat beside green river. You have to drive to the bottom of the gourge. 3 miles strait down. This rd. will scare you. You can go tubeing after run.

Super easy 7 this morning to round out September with 200 miles.

QOTD: Wow. I've probably totally forgotten more hurricanes than most people ever have to deal with. I guess Katrina was probably the worst. We left our house and went to my parent's about 15 miles south of us; we are quite a ways up from New Orleans, almost to the Mississippi state line. So, going 15 miles south was not a big deal. I had a ton of gigantic oak trees around the house, and I didn't want the kids in there with the coming storm. Prior to leaving, I headed down back roads to get to my ex-wife's house to pick up my oldest daughter. That was a bit of a fight, but I told her I was coming to get her, regardless of whose "weekend" it was. My daughter and I met my wife and my other two girls at my parents to ride the storm out. My brother in law and sister came up from New Orleans; they ended up with major damage to their home. Anyway, the storm was not nearly as bad here as it was in NOLA. But it was bad. We ended up cutting our way back to my house with chainsaws, and we met people coming from my town (Greensburg, La.) about halfway between my parents' and my town. I lost a shed and needed a new roof, but other than that, we came out okay. But it was like a post-apocalyptic scene around here; all sorts of people were in town; gas lines were crazy at the stations. Fights broke out; it was just crazy.

Three years later, I became the mayor, and we were faced with Hurricane Rita. We all learned a lot from Katrina. Rita hit our area a little worse, but we were able to work together to get roads cleared way before "help" from the state or feds showed up. We sent them onto other places to help them.

No run so far, and it looks this might turn into a lazy day in terms of running today in an attempt to let the bronchitis heal up. Right now I am much slower than usual with the limitations in breathing.

QOTD: I remember a typhoon in Japan. I was going to a meeting in Mito, a few miles from the research center where I worked, and as usual in Japan, I had taken the train. Now a typhoon in Japan, at least at the time, was not a very big deal, just something that people deal with while carrying on with their daily busy lives. It was still raining hard, with very strong wind. Nobody was even trying to use an umbrella, as it would have been pointless, and the umbrella would not even have survived opening. Water was running down the stairs of the pedestrian overpass at the train station, in more than ankle-high waterfalls.

The Japanese ladies in their cute business costumes and heels just walked through it as if nothing was unusual about it. The men, just like everybody else, were drenched within seconds, all In their suits, carrying briefcases that were spilling water by the cup. Nobody lost their composure about it.

When I arrived at the meeting, all wet and somewhat dissolving, everybody was at least just as wet, with huge puddles around their chairs. Documents all wet and falling apart. Nobody mentioned a thing.

It was very chilly in that air conditioned room (after all, despite the rain, it was still summerly warm outside). By noon, the dripping had stopped, and we were only "wet".

Needless to say, on my way back to work, I got soaked again (like probably everybody else, too). But I learned that "rain" in Japan does not stop daily life there. People adjust by wearing quick-drying business suits that dry up without wrinkling, and women use waterproof make-up and wear wind-resistant hairstyles. Some of the secret tricks of the trade in business in Japan.

OBMedic  Art Lobe is 5 min. from Lowes in Brevard.  Estatoe turns into Art Lobe. Art Lobe only follows river for 1/2 mile but you can stay on river trail to get some flat miles.  Where do you get on art lobe?

Bike Laurel Mt trail from top of Laurel Mt to the top of Pisgua mt.

Rated highly in bike mag. 8.5 miles one way. Too rocky to be fun to run but loads of fun on a bike. If you got shocks.

happy to report I stayed upright on my hill repeats last night, full week without shedding blood!  got an easy 6 miles in this evening

qotd: not too many hurricanes in Montana , but I was in the Outer Banks of NC vacationing in 1991 when Hurricane Bob was rolling in- we got out of Dodge in a hurry and missed it