Welcome Back Katie

1) After 4-5 months of recovering from a serious injury. Katie is all set to join in for TRY tonight. So, please commend her on her patience during her long road back and welcome her back into the fold. (And then watch her take off and leave most of us in the dust! Katie! Slow down! :-)

2) There were some yes votes for doing field trips, so we are going to attempt a field trip for next Tuesday night. I'm picking Green Lakes State Park since it is dog friendly and the dog owners of TRY can bring along their 4 legged friends. The initial plan will be to shoot for 6 PM at Green Lakes park. We'll give people some time to make it -- then attempt a group run at 6:30. Then hopefully there can be some frisbee-ing, swimming, whatevering until 8, or 8:30 when we get kicked out of the park. Please let me know if you plan on attending and I'll work out more specifics with those people on if we are doing a picnic. (FYI -- this means that there will be no organized TRY run at the Liverpool park next Tuesday.)

3) Tonight. Planning on a tempo run. Either a 4 mile run (1/2 mile warmup, 3 miles at race pace (the "tempo" portion), and a 1/2 mile cooldown). Or a 5 mile run (1 mile warmup/cooldown with the 3 miles at race pace in the middle). We can decide for sure as we mingle waiting for the run to start. The important part is the 3 miles at race pace, so the stuff on both ends is highly irrelevant.

4) Thanks for the responses to the polls. Bella is a dominant presence! Her time on the news being dragged across the camera view by her leash has definitely connected with the population.