Snuck Away to PA

I must not be very good at reading calendars because my long planned vacation to the Pocono region in Pennsylvania somehow caught me off guard. Oops! I will not be around tonight. Please find a way to survive without me and my little distractions.

This week it is back to normal for TRY. The volatility of June and July is over and from tonight til the middle of November you can count on TRY being right where it should be in OLP. It looks like the storm threat should pass through in time to leave you with beautiful running conditions - mid 70s and partly cloudy. Enjoy!

Fleet Feet of Syracuse is running a promotion where they are asking where they should give some money under the name of "The Power of Running". They have taken votes to settle on three finalist and for the next 8 days you can vote to select the single winner. The finalists are Paige's Butterfly Run, Girl Scouts of NY Penn, Advocates Inc., of Syracuse. Obviously I have a favorite among those three, but vote for which ever one you would most like to support. (I naively wonder about the Girl Scouts entry...since contests like this are popularity contests...if that group truly is drawing in people from NY and Pennsylvania - then it has an unfair advantage and to me, and shouldn't be involved in this local vote. Oh well.) You can read the full write up on the vote or can skip directly to the voting page. Please vote! (I just did and it took about 20 seconds - name, email address, and choice is all it takes.)

I'm still working on TRY photos from PBR and the BM. I went through and grabbed 95% of our glimpses from the official event photographers and will upload those to Facebook next...I did not quite get all of them because it gets silly when you can just barely see us in the background. There are some other photos of friends of TRYers (like Janna's Jason) but there are limits to how much I want to squint while looking through over 2000 thumbnails. Full album is here where you can get larger format files if the ones I upload make you want a better version. For this post, here is the pre-race glamour shot of each team:







Wow, we all look GREAT.

Lastly, another thank you to "Jennifer" and her family for hosting the TRY night last Tuesday. It worked out perfectly and they were very generous with their "tours" of the grounds. (But I haven't noticed any photos yet...did anything get posted that I missed?)