Some Color For Autumn

I've always been closer to being autistic than artistic, but sometimes something comes along that can even make me look good.  So, stay tuned to the end, if you'd like to see some fall foliage.

For tonight's workout, I once again have a class and will only be there to lead the dynamic warm up and then  will need to skedaddle. I was thinking...that it would be "interesting" to do the warm up with our eyes closed.  It would certainly test our balance!  So, think about that, and if you are brave enough, do the individual exercises, or at least the 3-4 simpler ones, Escalade style.  :-)

For the workout itself, I think we are due for mile repeats.  So, a couple of those, with either a quarter or a half thrown in at the end for good measure.  But, since I won't be there, I'll leave it up to whoever steps forward with a specific interval idea, to dictate the group run.  Just be kind and watch over the less experience yoggers, please.

The weather is supposed to be good, so I encourage someone to coordinate the post cool down core workout.  This week I was going to do the set of 4 at 30 seconds each and then repeat them for another 15 seconds each before finishing with the plank.  But, as with the run, whoever wants to lead it can use their judgment.

What's in a name?  I suppose, it's an 'n', an 'a', an 'm', and an 'e'.  But it's also more than that.  It's a simple and colorful way to have a common and non-ambiguous description for things we come across during the TRY season.  Which leads to all these sort of random descriptive names:

The "Ally Loop" is the final circle that we almost always run around to finish counter-clockwise towards ground marker 0.0.  It's named in honor of a 'former' TRYer named "Loopy" who insisted on adding the extra several steps to our runs once upon a time.  It's also sounds like "alley-oop" and brings to mind basketball.  Quite coincidentAlly, Loopy always had a soft spot for basketball players. Particularly if they were significantly older than her.

"Mr. Mister" is the misting station located between the playground and the skate park.  It's no soul sister, but it can help cool a hot sista down after a run on a warm day.  After we named it, there was even a somewhat popular song created by a fringe TRYer named "Train", who got a kick out of our silly names for things:



(Attempt replacing the "tonight" lyric with "at TRY" for the original version that he penned before he left Syracuse and hit it big.)

"Faith Hill", we've been all over lately.  And it certainly has its ups and downs, leaving us no choice but to Breathe and hope that we don't Cry. (I can't help it...It Matters To Me!  And since I know the site password you have to Take Me As I Am!)

Our cool down walk location was once called the "Bermuda TRYangle", but was rebranded "Angela's TRYangle" once a bench in tribute to Angela Lynn Harris was coincidentally put smack dab in the middle of it.  Read about her sad story at angelasplace.org.

Beyond the 2.25 mile ground marker, we have the newly coined "Treeasure Island" and "Treebsure Island" (I think you can figure out what those are), followed by "Floppers Falls" at the turnaround in front of the old bathroom and snack building just after Long Branch Road where I once almost gave myself a concussion by slipping on ice and doing a cartoon like fall onto my back and head.  (In retrospect, my peculiar behavior has gotten much worse since then, so it may not have been 'almost'?)

Finally, way at the end of the West Shore Trail, if you cross over 690, you can have the pleasure of running up and down "Fitzpatrick's Hill".  Named in honor of Mark who first sought it out and recommended it as a good hill to train on, it leads from the pedestrian bridge up to State Fair Boulevard.

Speaking of the West Shore Trail, be sure to read about the extension that will be added by the end of next year, if you didn't see it in the paper on Friday.

And speaking of Fitzpatricks, I wanted to take a paragraph to welcome Katie back to TRY!  She snuck in on me so I didn't do a proper introduction, but a former favorite was able to return to us after becoming a mother for the first time about 11 months ago.  Hopefully next year works out better schedule wise and she will be able to prove to us that you can indeed get outran by a mother pushing a toddler in a running stroller.  (If Claire herself isn't outrunning us by then.)

Alright, enough colorful names, let's move onto colorful pictures.  I've been playing around with the "Color Splash" app for the past few days and I just can't get enough of it.  I call it finger painting with an un-do button.  And not since finger painting in elementary school have I created something so worthy of hanging on my momma's fridge.

The first one, proves that TRYers really do stand out in a crowd:

 

Production two gives a look back at the 2011 version of the Centipediatricians:


Project three, was payback to Duerr for pretending that his cousin was him last week.  So, here is a more appropriate tribute to OUR Adam Duerr:



And a bonus, for "AA" who is too busy training her dogs to be a synchronized swimming doggie duo (that's the only thing that makes sense to me from the pictures she's been posting) to make it out on a Tuesday evening.  So, this is my final attempt to bait her out for one night before the end of the season.  It combines two of her favorite things.  Wedding photos.  And Jeep Mac:



These all were done quickly, with little thought, and without playing with the other tweaking options available in the app.  They are just my attempt at colorizing or not colorizing parts of the photos.  I can only imagine what a truly artistic person could do with such power.  Join me, do some finger painting yourself, and let me see how your projects turn out.