If you Want someone to run with in Chicago hit me up! Corona sounds not terrible. The Natty is tasting mighty fine after a hard week of pappy protocol.
If you Want someone to run with in Chicago hit me up! Corona sounds not terrible. The Natty is tasting mighty fine after a hard week of pappy protocol.
runrincerepeat wrote:
If you Want someone to run with in Chicago hit me up!
RRR -- I appreciate that! But, a couple stumbling blocks. First, and most importantly, you will be a sub-2:40 marathoner by then. And second, I like smaller marathons with fewer crowds and simpler logistics.
Also, thank you to all the other guys that chimed in with the kudos. Really, though, I wasn't kidding about how odd it feels to race a mile slower than age-44 5K pace. Which, itself was age-23 10K pace. Not sure I like this trajectory.
Boy, that first Corona went down fast. Gotta cut another slice of lime.
Allen - The Saturday night digressions are my favorite aspect of this thread. I wait all week for them. Enjoy your evening on the porch.
Allen, great job in the mile. You ran it perfect and beat your goal.
Allen1959 wrote:
runrincerepeat wrote:
If you Want someone to run with in Chicago hit me up!
RRR -- I appreciate that! But, a couple stumbling blocks. First, and most importantly, you will be a sub-2:40 marathoner by then. And second, I like smaller marathons with fewer crowds and simpler logistics.
Also, thank you to all the other guys that chimed in with the kudos. Really, though, I wasn't kidding about how odd it feels to race a mile slower than age-44 5K pace. Which, itself was age-23 10K pace. Not sure I like this trajectory.
Boy, that first Corona went down fast. Gotta cut another slice of lime.
Haha RRR has no plans to move to the marathon anytime Soon. At least not to race it hard. No matter what AJ says about it being the only race .. it’s just another abstract distance like the rest. And sub 2:40 R3 May never achieve.
The first fast beer on a good night after the hat is in the barn is the best. Enjoy. I am possibly many nattys deep but hey. Pappy will still get his 75 mins tomorrow ( it just may be slow!)
outsiderunner wrote:
Allen - The Saturday night digressions are my favorite aspect of this thread. I wait all week for them. Enjoy your evening on the porch.
Speaking of digressions I bought a six pack awhile ago thinking it would last most the summer. A few friends drank them for me. I guess I'll have to go for a walk to get another. Hopefully something good. RRR is rubbing off on me. I'm up to 4 beers this year.
If you don’t train the liver you are just a bum!
Pappy - I think I am up to one.
Any other troublesome rats?
Congrats Allen and RRR. Impressive races
No rats but there are a lot of gnats. Going to have to enjoy#5 in the screened in porch. The east veranda is buggy.
Pappy wrote:
No rats but there are a lot of gnats. Going to have to enjoy#5 in the screened in porch. The east veranda is buggy.
This is great stuff, Pappy. I am sitting here smiling. Nothing like Saturday night on the RR&T thread. What brand/type of beer did you buy?
Allen!
What a great story to read with my Sunday morning coffee! You have a great racer's self-awareness to go along with your physical skills. Add to that, you finish faster than you hoped and looking forward to maybe running another. That's a pretty darn good day! And in the quiet house on Sunday morning, my laugh out loud at the first line got my daughter concerned enough to poke her head into the dad cave to make sure the old man wan't choking on something.
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Aging. It's a sensitive topic and maybe not so interesting to a lot of the younger posters here, but I wanted to say a word or two about a word or two of yours.
In one of your replies you mentioned "trajectory." I think it's the perfect word for aging, literally and metaphorically, and probably especially for aging athletes. Makes me picture all of us on the thread shot out of cannons at different times and from different places, arcing across time and space and somehow passing each other here and now, with some still soaring higher, some reaching a zenith, and some looking for a good place to land. Aging is as inevitable as gravity; Allen is an example to all of us that inevitable doesn't have to be unenviable. I know I'd be giggling like a school girl if I ever ran an 80% age grade. So, young and old, "Respect the Traject!" Fly true and enjoy the view!
RRR how did you like those new shoes?
Congrats on the mile, Allen, and smart going with the flats.
RRR, that sounds like a solid effort considering where you’re at. Passing people in the second half is always a plus.
Unfortunately only 2 beers (with dinner) so far, so no good Saturday night digressions from me. Perhaps there will be Tuesday afternoon rambles after the Caps parade.
runrincerepeat wrote:
If you don’t train the liver you are just a bum!
I've had two beers this year. Niether of which I paid for ;-)
1st was some Belgian import the boss paid for and the second was a free post race blue moon.
I got a 6 pack of Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale? I was rudely thrown out of their brewery once. They had a bunch of pool tables. All over their billiards area were signs no gambling and no masse shots. Of course I did both.
Was it the place right by Wrigley? Went their once during a work trip five years ago. Blame AB InBev for not being cool.
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