Fair Enough

This weeks forecast is for beautiful summer weather around TRY time - 80 degrees and sunny. (At some point it is hard for me to come up with new excuses on why I don't run!)

With the fair now just a couple days away I've been doing some research on what days make the most sense to go and I found that the coupon booklet from previous years is now available as a printable file right off of the fairs website. So, do yourself a favor and print out the pages you may use from this .pdf.

Or, if you are like me and do not want to waste paper, check out this condensed sheet off the 10 most likely coupons I would use. Note that all three slushie coupons are on the page and there is no limit to how many you can print...so it is like printing money.


(There are a several other coupons that others may make use out of - so check out the link above to make sure you are not limited to what suited my taste. You would have to be a Bavarian [roasted] nut to not take advantage of at least a few of these.)

Back to running:
At some point I feel that everything that can be written about running, HAS been written about running. So it makes it impossible to find new and interesting material for the old timers in the group. But, rehashing some stuff may refresh the memory for those people? And maybe some of this is new to the less experienced runners? With that in mind I thought the article in the weekend Fleet Feet newsletter was sort of interesting. It is called "Learn to Love Summer Running" and is a couple minute read on what heat does to your body and what benefits you can glean from suffering through some hot runs. It feels harder on super hot days, because it is harder (science!). Your body works harder, so the key takeaways are to take it a little easy, certainly, but also to use that extra body stress to improve your running fitness. When cooler weather comes in the fall, you will be a little better off than if you dodged all the hottest days or hottest times of the days.

This last article was shared by a former co-worker of several of ours on Facebook, so I read through it and found it fascinating. It has running at its core, but is really a human interest piece and shows how recently the world really sucked and how simple acts of decency could change peoples lives around him for the better and his for the worse. Do yourself a favor and take the 5-10 minutes to read about "The White Man In That Photo".

(Full disclosure: I'm sure I "knew" that photo and that moment was about a running event but something about the gloves on made my mind remember that it was about boxers. Not that boxers wear gloves like that...but with the gloves and the fists I had somehow misremembered what the lead-up to that moment even was. Shame on me - even though the type of sport they competed in was irrelevant to the moment and the gesture.)