Beer Drinker's Appreciation Society--Always Open (Page 4)

Love the Left Hand Milk Stout!  Was it the nitro or the regular?  Both are tasty, the nitro is just crazy smooth.

Yesterday was a planned day off for me, this afternoon is a 30 min run/walk with the fam, tomorrow I hope to get the trainer set up (if I can find all the parts after the move that is...).  Friday or Saturday will be a solo longer run, and Saturday or Sunday will be my not-so-long 'long' bike ride on the bike path (last Sunday was 19 miles).  

Yeh, Liverpool and Red Sox are the same owner. I am guessing Man City for you, but do not mind them. I lived right by Maine Road when I was at uni in Manchester and my only nice ex g/f was a Man City fan. Also their anthem is Blue Moon: 

Which is the coverage that makes your eyes want to bleed? I am thinking it might be Fox? Do the graphics have to be that busy?!? in the UK when (proper!) football is on you get the score in the top corner and that's your lot! 

YES!  Hate Fox coverage.  Joe Buck is the worst ever, and they use him in NFL and MLB games...

Concerning the Premier League, yes it's City for me.  My friend that got me into the PL 8 or 9 years ago (same friend that talked me into the Dopey Challenge) is a United fan, and they were definitely the 'Yankees of the Premier League' so I needed to find a team that rivaled them, and only had to look across town.  Admittedly the money situation makes them less interesting the past couple years, definitely more of a 'team of champions' than a 'champion's team'.

Btw firebert I have a confession to make i don't do celtics/bruins I knew someone who was a nuggets fan and as the logo was a rainbow flag I picked them! and i LOVE penguins! 

Thanks Riles!  I'll keep my eye out.  I'm still not even sure where to look for multipsport events, though as I understand the calendar is almost two seasons split into spring races and fall races, to avoid the summer heat.  Which of course is the opposite of MA where the 'season opener' tri is just before Memorial Day and typically qualifies as a Polar Bear Swim hahahaha.  Anyway that'll most likely put me into the fall race category, unless I can find a race that has a Duathlon option in the meanwhile.

Not really a stout, but do any of you like Guinness?

That is so a stout!  Here in the states it gets classified as a 'dry stout' or an 'Irish stout'.  Other than color its quite different from the Russian Imperial type of stout, or oatmeal stout, or any of the others.  I LOVE Guinness though.  Got started on it in the 90s before 'craft beer' was widely a thing.  Still love to drink it.  Loads of flavor, nitro smoothness (unless you get the carbonated export stout, which I also enjoy), and low calorie also!  

At one point not all that long ago I suggested a tap line running from Dublin straight to Boston along the sea floor.  

Thought there already was one?!? lol! Always love a Guinness when watching rugby in the pub

No.  Just. No.

I never developed a taste for Guinness.  I mean, it's OK and I don't spit it out, but I'm not a fan. 

Now I'm 1/2 Polish so I love me some Zwieck.

Back from infecting the Sheraton Bradley Airport (Hartford) for three days.  LOL  Still haven't worked out in almost three weeks.  Definitely on the mend so that's good.  Was debating a short trainer ride to loosen my legs but I figured it would be:

10' lightheaded WU
5' X cough out right lung
2' trying to breathe, 4 x blow nose
5' X cough out left lung
5' cool down and get the chills

So, I'll wait until tomorrow. 

Good to see some new faces - welcome to those I haven't already.  Did have a couple of Long Trail IPAs up in CT with dinner (note:  my appetite has not diminished one bit so I'm rapidly gaining weight), so I can't be that sick.

Mike - glad you're finally on the mend!  Long Trail is a classic Vermont beer, been in the craft game a long time and they never disappoint.

Having a bit of a rough couple days.  A good friend/mentor/personal trainer/running coach/general badass passed away yesterday afternoon.  I've known her for a decade, and she was a cancer survivor already when we met, which was to coach me on my running form and do strength training with me, back when I was really trying to get a handle on the running/injury cycle.  You would never have known, even when she was going through treatment for relapses, or recovering from abdominal surgeries for the same, she was still teaching her small group training classes and full of energy ready to kick all of our . To people who didn't know her I would describe her as 'in her 50s, about 5'9", could stop a moving truck with her bare hands".  I stuck with her for my whole endurance sport journey - from just running through all of my tri career.  

Once I found out yesterday I went for a run, and at one point stopped and nearly broke down on the sidewalk.  She'd have yelled at me for that haha.  "Keep going, what are you stopping for?"  Today, I've taken off work.  Going to make some adjustments and tune my bike, and head out for a ride and celebrate life a bit in her honor.  

Cancer sucks, is what it does.  If it can take someone that fit and that strong, and just deteriorate so quickly from survivor to gone...  Just reminds me to tell people I love them, and to do my workouts not as a chore but as a privilege.  I always try to remind myself that when I'm in a workout and it's tough - try and smile because you get to do this.  Do it because you can.

Have a good day everyone, thanks for reading.

Gosh - really sorry for your loss, John.  Sounds like an amazing woman.  And good words from you, too.