Reservoir runs--at 530 am on Tuesdays and some Thursdays

The time appears to be ever changing but maybe they will mostly be at 530 am, uggggggghhhhh, except on the Thursdays that Sally has an 8 am meeting so then they'll be at 5 on those days, double uuuuugggggghhhhh!!!!!! Feel free to come and join us if you'd like. Same place to park as on Saturday AM's! But we don't put out water so you have to bring your own.

Another one of Carol's hare-brained schemes but I survived

What a week I have had! But I did get my 12 miles in, by myself unfortunately. I have pointed out how lucky we are to be healthy enough to even attempt our Marathon Adventure as my brother's health has been going downhill lately. Well, he took a tremendous plunge a week ago Monday while on a trip with some friends in Kentucky. In an attempt to try to help him function better/walk better, his Parkinson's meds had been increased, and they caused him to start hallucinating and falling and essentially being totally out of his head. Was hospitalized in a great hospital up there. My nephew drove up there but then needed help so I flew up there Wednesday to help. He was already getting better by the time I got there as they had stopped the meds. We drove back all night long Thursday night and I stayed in Merigold for the weekend to try to help him get on track with better diabetes control. So, I planned out a 12 mile route. And, I must say, I sort of wanted to be able to say I ran from Merigold to Cleveland. And, I was scared to run on desolate roads by myself due to fear of attack abduction. So, I looked at Hwy 61 with its nice wide shoulders, found that the turn around point was at the local Walmart, and headed out at 640 am Saturday morning, frozen Propel in hand--large one. Didn't take me long to realize that the traffic has picked up considerably on Hwy 61 in the 30 years that I've been gone from there!!!! So, I kept having to hit the shoulder which, although wide, was covered in giant, loose gravel. Sort of like running on the trail in Raymond or on the beach. So, my pace suffered, and I was exhausted by the time I got to Walmart. But, I went in, used their facilities, bought another Propel, and bought a cup of ice from the McDonald's inside, and prepped the old and the new bottles with ice and shared Propel. Dilly dallied around to rest but finally set out to go back to Merigold with TWO large bottles of drink (kind of like running with weights). I stood my ground on the narrow asphalt shoulder of road as much as I could but had to hit that gravel a good bit and had to walk a good bit. And, it was HOTTTTTT!!!!!. But, I did make it, and now I can say I have run from Merigold to Cleveland and back. And that I missed the support of you guys--a lot. I composed many blogs along the way--I guess that is one benefit of running alone--but not a good enough benefit to not make me want to be in your midst for all of my remaining long runs!!!!