Douglas Trail

Nice day for Douglas. I finished soaking with sweat, but this one can be, and has been, hotter than blazes so it was nice to have the more moderate temps. I ran 1:26:44 (on my watch) for 7:53 pace so that's halfway decent. I ran what felt comfortable to at times pushing it a bit. I actually won a watermelon! Congrats to Ron Giles, first overall in 1:04.24, and Mary Chestolowski, first female and third overall in 1:11.52. Thank you also to Sue Christian and Peg Arnold for taking finish line photos. This race also marked the debut of our new clock, which arrived this week. I like the nice big numbers.



Tom Woo photos (thank you Tom ... you're a great photographer):



Douglas Trail 2008

For some reason, they don't all show up in the slideshow. Click on the link below the slideshow to see all the thumbnails.

Ran/walked an extra 4 miles afterwards with Ron Giles. (Thank you for tolerating my slow pace and cramping legs!) The cookies seemed to be well-received. No passes to Ultramarathon Man materialized. Sorry about that. Only flyers. Passes will be available at the outdoor party after the 6:00 pm practice session at Running Room on Wednesday.

Congrats to Deb Thomford who placed 3rd out of 346 in her age division at the Bix 7 in Iowa today. That's a huge race. Kudos, kudos.

Congrats to RTC member Joann Johnson who has complete all 19 TRAM bike rides, raising money for MS.

Here's a pretty fabulous recipe that I discovered in the Rochester Methodist Hospital Auxiliary Cookbook and made yesterday. The whole family approves.

Chocolate Peanut Banana Bread
2 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1 c. chocolate chips
1/3 c. peanuts, chopped
1/3 c. peanut butter
1/3 c. milk
2 bananas, mashed
1 egg
3 Tbsp. vegetable oil

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, mix bananas, milk, peanut butter, oil and egg. Add dry ingredients to banana mixture. Mix until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips 93/4 cup only). Pour in loaf pan that is greased on bottom. Sprinkle chopped peanuts and rest of chocolate chips over top. (Push them into the batter a bit, I discovered, or they'll fall out when you take it out of the pan.) Bake at 350 for 60 minutes. Cool 10 minutes, then loosen sides of bread and remove loaf. Cool.

Yesterday, Ted and I were getting ready to take a look at the oldest RTC clock which has ceased functioning and thus prompted the purchase of the new $3600 clock, which looked pretty wonderful this morning I must say. Ted went downstairs to get a drop light and reported that there was a problem in the basement. Water. Coming from the furnace/air conditioner unit. I took the cover off and we couldn't see anything wrong and didn't want to mess with the sealed unit. Eventually deduced this morning that the drain hose was clogged, after a warm night without air conditioning. Oh well, call to the repairman averted.

I've spent a fair amount of time looking at the inerds of the clock but it's slow going. The numerals are mechanical put there are lots of electronics inside. Hmmmm.... Don't know what to make of all that stuff...

Well, I'd best get down to the garden and pick more green beans.

Cheers!