Spectacular!

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day ...

from Beautiful Day, U2

Oh, it just doesn't get any better than this, does it? Sunny, 76, slight breeze, low humidity. Wonderful. The attorney that I work for is out of town for a couple of days so I have been able to enjoy the day fully, save for handling a real estate sale this afternoon. Was able to run with the Y "guys" (Priscilla Smith and I are included in "guys") at noon. 8 of us. (Priscilla and I were in the 'lead' at this point. ;-) Girls rule. ;-)

Very nice run. Brought cookies for the birthday boy K.C. Reed. (He gave me permission to mention this.) Then I ran down to the library to pick up a couple of books and snapped a photo of the Rochesterfest food vendor area. It looked like they did lots of business today!

115 hits here yesterday. Awesome! And on a weekend no less. Still working on getting photos posted. I may have to try photobucket.com from another computer in the house and see if that's more successful. Thank you Brandon Bungum and Nina Bren for your kind blog comments at the weekend's events. Brandon will be running his first marathon--TCM--this fall. I encouraged him to run with a training group at least for the 18-20 milers. It goes so much better running with others and having support. 8:30 Sundays at Running Room, 7:00 at the RAC Saturdays beginning July 5.

New nutrition at Running Room: eLoad caps, eDiscs and lemonade flavored PowerBar gel blasts. I tried the blasts. Quite good. Similar to Clif Bloks but they don't get stuck in my teeth. Only 99 cents.

From David Sletten: 15% discount at One More Mile with code RUC1326. I've not yet checked out what's available on the site.

The July RTC newsletter will be assembled at Mike Schmitt's house on Thursday evening. Look for more details later both here and on the RTC website. Thank you in advance for those who are able to help. My evenings are all booked up this week ...

Bill Nevala could use help stuffing the Rochesterfest Triathlon bags on Thursday at 6 pm at his home, 71 River Court NE. Phone number is 507-206-4294.

Here's a link from John Shonyo about barefoot runner Dean Laiti from the Twin Cities: Some tough looking soles! Me, I think I'll stick with shoes. Not sure how I'd run with rigid orthotics without shoes! John reports that about 10 ran with the Off-Season Striders on Saturday, which was great considering all the other things going on.

From Chris O'Brien: Letter to the editor regarding the trail system. Congrats to Chris on running her first half marathon on Saturday.

The Mac Attack went very well yesterday. Lovely weather for that event, which can be hotter than blazes. Ian Lanza was the overall/men's winner ...

and Christy Colbenson won for the women. Good to see Dave Morrill ...

back on the roads. The race runs right in front of his lovely home on the lake. Pat Brown ...

from Lewiston ran the race the day after running Grandma's marathon! After Ted and I were done volunteering (Ted was lead cyclist) we went to Bakers' Square for dinner compliments of someone, but don't know who. Ted found a gift card out in the country on a bike ride and brought it home and checked the balance online. $20. I resisted pie. ;-)

Chris O'Brien and Mario Minelli both saw the Illini 4000 bikers on their way to Owatonna yesterday. Chris lives on the route, Mario was cycling the opposite direction. Speaking of the Minelli family ... Mario's little guy Jace, age 7, ran a 26:51 5K at the Mac Attack! That's fantastic! There were lots of 10 & under kids running.

Well, time to think about supper and I'll get some Zumbrota, Sunday Quarry Hill run and Mac Attack photos posted later.

Toodle-ooo!!