What Am I Grateful For?

This week:
The forecast is for mid 50s and sun, so it should be a pleasant run. (Although, chance of it being a bit too breezy next to the lake.) The good news is that a regular spring day will mean all the people that came out of the woodwork for the last couple amazeball days will stay home today and the park will be reasonably un-full. The group workout will be discussed in person as people are filing in.

A friendly reminder:
We have the pleasant problem of having a large group, so please be mindful of how much room we take up on the park trail. Especially at the beginning when all of us are together.

What are TRYers up to:
I believe the only race worth mentioning this week is the "Seneca 7". At least a couple TRYers are doing it on Sunday and I believe a few other runners that some of us know will be involved as well. Duerr are you willing to do a small race story for us to contrast it to the Ragnar version of a team race?

SCIENCE!
I had posted this article to the TRY FB page back in December, but it was the off-season so I do not know how many people would have bothered to read it...and we already have a bunch of new people in the group so I wanted to officially post it as part of a weekly update. Here are four simple rituals that neuroscience has "proven" will make you happier.
The summary is that you should ask yourself "what am I grateful for?" (answering the question is unnecessary - just the asking works), label your negative emotions, make "good enough" decisions, and touch people. I know, my mind was blown the first time too!

We will be implementing the TRY mandatory hugging policy (long hugs!) on any week that Meat Loaf shows up.

Escalade is back:
In honor of our favorite blind athlete (well, second favorite for those of us who know Shawn), I wanted to re-post a link that Escalade shared on her timeline this week. It is from popular mechanics and skews towards the techie side of the sport so it should appeal to the engineers in the group and has enough general information about "beep baseball" that others of you could find it interesting as well. It turns out that it skews wildly from the baseball we know, but the hitting mechanism is about the same. The fielding, running, and scoring mechanism all went in a way I did not expect. (I naively thought that blind people somehow managed to play traditional baseball. Which seemed crazy to me. It turns out it is still crazy...just in different ways.)