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I’m expecting this afternoon to be sorta like a zombie-like apocalypse, only on Jupiter where all the undead would be stuck to the ground because of the immense gravity. It would make for a terrifically bad video game “High Gravity Zombie Hunt 4”

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Suhweet! I’m looking forward to meeting the forum folk.

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@5555624 23839 wrote:

Yeah, why wait that late?

Saturdays at 4:00 a.m. or so, I often get “good morning” comments from those I find walking on the trail.

If you are down on the MVT you will often run into random Ft. Myer/Pentagoners jogging around at 5am or so, with that being their mid-morning run. Insane.

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@DavidAsch 23749 wrote:

How’s this for a twist! I commute regularly on the path through Rock Creek Park and always ding my bell when I pass runners. Yesterday when I dinged my bell, the runner said, “That was completely unnecessary.” I slowed down and asked what she meant. She said, “I am here. You are there. The bell is an annoyance.”.

I got that from a woman running with what looked like a mastiff/lab mix – “Your voice upset my dog!” I apologized, but didn’t really understand what she was getting on about, the dog was just standing there drooling like a maniac.

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I’ve started doing the protein shake routine after my commute home and try to get a nice stack of oatmeal (nuts, berries, whatever) down as soon as I get into work. Nevertheless, sometimes you just need to snack. Listen to your body, plow down some hearty stuff or some fruity stuff, wash down with water, repeat. Personally, after a LOT of trial and error, I have figured out that I need right around 2,600 – 3,000 calories a day to feel healthy and not lose weight – but I’m a big fidgeting mess so your results may vary.

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@baiskeli 23629 wrote:

This is why God invented drafting, btw.

Felt bad for the guy drafting behind me this morning – beer and pizza last night.

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@essigmw 23645 wrote:

Sure you can, you just have to dip it in water and freeze it first.

Or jam it through a pipe – again sticking with the bureaucracy analogy.

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I was cruising in with some guys this morning around 7ish and both of them insisted on ringing their bells pretty much constantly starting around 100ft out – good in theory – but in practice it just scared the crap out of the pedestrians.

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Nothing left to do but break out the white spandex, Walkman, some Bartles and Jaymes, and watch this turd classic.

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Great info …but that website looks like a love child between GeoCities and Netscape 3.0.

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@rcannon100 23358 wrote:

I guess that’s sort of what is in the back of my mind. I ran track and cross country in high school and college. Cross country in college meant running in sub freezing weather through the corn fields of Ohio. Boy was I glad I had grown a beard.

The Ultimate Frisbee team had a habit of raiding track members. People who were fast were good for the Ultimate team. I think I started playing Ultimate my sophomore year and played for 25 years. To me, the difference of a team sport with complexity, compared to the linear mono dimensional experience of track where most training is a solo experience – was tremendous. I liked track. And I liked getting into shape. But it was boring. I LOVED Ultimate and I loved playing a team sport. I only gave it up when the AARP police started enforcing the no-geezers-on-the-field rule.

I also ran cross country and could never wrap my head around why the hell I was running three miles to get back to the place I started. Also, that old-geezer rule gets invoked RIDICULOUSLY early nowadays. Slap a ring on your finger, go a little grey, and you are suddenly “gramps.”

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@americancyclo 23241 wrote:

There’s the mistake, you need to go to the office first, then ‘go out for a cup of coffee’

Alternately, fire off that first email of the day from VPN and then enjoy a cup of joe.

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I would highly recommend autoslash.com – it was put together by a group of forum members from the flyertalk forums. I got a week long rental in Cali for something like $60.

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Sadly, on days like today, only a real shower will suffice.

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@jnva 22926 wrote:

But I do that every day. Wow lots of angry people on this forum, I seem to have hit a nerve. I hope your not this angry while riding on the trails because you might run into someone.

Of course accidents happen. How I have managed to avoid hitting anyone on the wod/custis for the past 20 years must be a miracle then, huh?

The word you are looking for is curmudgeonly – in a pinch cantankerous would also work. But your blanket logic sucks. Now everyone go get a snow cone and enjoy the ungodly number of hours of daylight.

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