quality Times are a slowing

The day of coffee and soup has past.

Now you walk into a place, and they well take info and and get back with
you....

Image if able to:
a place of trails and shelters were a runner or hiker or biker or
swimmer can run to and get said coffee and soup...

No need a car.
A hotel.
a doctor.

Butt today just watch: you can do this:
I see it on t.v.

Yah for a zillion dollors....
run from A to B. and end of day. c = X amount of Dollors....
remember the service...
yah and you die for to pay the bill....

Do the Math.....

Biking the year thru.

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Lowtuc Zow) said:

The day of coffee and soup has past.

Now you walk into a place, and they well take info and and get back with
you....

Image if able to:
a place of trails and shelters were a runner or hiker or biker or
swimmer can run to and get said coffee and soup...

No need a car.
A hotel.
a doctor.

Butt today just watch: you can do this:
I see it on t.v.

Yah for a zillion dollors....
run from A to B. and end of day. c = X amount of Dollors....
remember the service...
yah and you die for to pay the bill....

Do the Math.....

Biking the year thru.

Do you have to fail an IQ test to get a WebTV account?

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Doug Freese said:

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=5AD351BD-636B-4DBB-987F-6DDFBF6BB74E

They're not alone (from a few months back):
http://www.adn.com/sports/story/6791779p-6681267c.html

--
"If we reach all our goals, we are not setting them high enough."
- Matt Carpenter

Doug Freese said:

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=5AD351BD-636B-4DBB-987F-6DDFBF6BB74E

Couldn't open the link.

I cruised through some old race times. A 16:58 I did in 1989 got me
43rd place in a very popular yet very local race (Long Island, NY).
43rd place in a 5k now is somewhere in the 19 minutes. And you can
count the 30 year old top ten finishers on two fingers. I don't mind
being a big fish even if the pond keeps getting smaller.

BTW were you at After the Leaves on Sunday?

Andy

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Doug Freese said:

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=5AD351BD-636B-4DBB-987F-6DDFBF6BB74E

Couldn't open the link.

Ijusttried it ans it's still works for me with IE.

Quoted message said:

I cruised through some old race times. A 16:58 I did in 1989 got me
43rd place in a very popular yet very local race (Long Island, NY).
43rd place in a 5k now is somewhere in the 19 minutes. And you can
count the 30 year old top ten finishers on two fingers. I don't mind
being a big fish even if the pond keeps getting smaller.

🙂

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BTW were you at After the Leaves on Sunday?

Yes, were you?? I was originally going to get high running the trail
slowly, enjoying the colorful leaves, lake Minnewaka and Awosting. I
ended up running with old high school friend. He was a year younger, 59
and out for a training run. I ended up running faster than I intended
as we swapped how our kids had done since the last time we talked some
many years back. I noticed we were picking off people on the initial
3-4 mile uphill. I just figured if I went out too fast I would slow down
later - it's only a 20k and not a crash and burn like my NYC marathon
buddies. 😉 Once we crested the hill we held a pretty good clip at least
for me around Awosting. As we passed people they would say I could hear
you guys for miles.

I ended up running 1:36 I think. About 30 seconds slower than last
year. Anyway, I had a fun time on a spectacular course. Sliding into the
60-69 age got me first but this will be short lived as my rivals cross
the river Styx.

How did you do?

-Doug

On Sunday I ran 31:00 for a five-mile race to place 25th overall out
of 256 and went home just barely satisfied - it's quite a hilly course
- to find a message asking me to arrange collection of my third-place
prize in the North Wales championships for M40-45 age group.

I was pleasantly surprised and also bit embarrassed... a very few
years ago that time would have put me no better than seventh or eighth
in M40-45, yet scrolling down the results I found I could have run
32:05 and *still* got third place.

Nine of the 24 ahead of me were older than me.

Doug Freese said:

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Doug Freese said:

http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=5AD351BD-636B-4DBB-987F-6DDFBF6BB74E

Couldn't open the link.

Ijusttried it ans it's still works for me with IE.

the link opened however it asked for a login.

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Quoted message said:

BTW were you at After the Leaves on Sunday?

Yes, were you?? I was originally going to get high running the trail

Sadly I was home studying. However my wife was the very pregnant finish
line volunteer.

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I ended up running 1:36 I think. About 30 seconds slower than last

I did a race like that once with a friend. Just yapped myself into a
pr.

Congrats. Your pond may be shrinking but at least you're still
swimming.

Andy

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Quoted message said:

I cruised through some old race times. A 16:58 I did in 1989 got me
43rd place in a very popular yet very local race (Long Island, NY).
43rd place in a 5k now is somewhere in the 19 minutes. And you can
count the 30 year old top ten finishers on two fingers. I don't mind
being a big fish even if the pond keeps getting smaller.

I'm not sure the conclusions people are making follow. There may be just
as many fast people as always, but more races and more people racing.
That would make the time for 43rd place slower on average because the
faster people would be spread around more thinly.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Harold Buck said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

I cruised through some old race times. A 16:58 I did in 1989 got me
43rd place in a very popular yet very local race (Long Island, NY).
43rd place in a 5k now is somewhere in the 19 minutes. And you can
count the 30 year old top ten finishers on two fingers. I don't mind
being a big fish even if the pond keeps getting smaller.

I'm not sure the conclusions people are making follow. There may be just
as many fast people as always, but more races and more people racing.
That would make the time for 43rd place slower on average because the
faster people would be spread around more thinly.

--Harold Buck

I once thought the same thing. However after a recent year of running a
number of local races and seeing many of the same faces in these races
realized that there are fewer of us fast folks. Teams that once send
ten runners now send a handful and there are fewer teams.

The fact that there are more races disguises the dwindling numbers. All
of this is unscientific so I can wiggle out of any real research that
proves me wrong.

Andy