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Stories from your grandparents?!?! OK, now I'm feeling pretty old.

And while we are talking about volcanoes, something I find fascinating are the Three Sisters in Oregon. 

There are three of them, grouped very close together yet all very different. One if extinct, one inactive and one active. They were all formed during separate time periods. 

I'm going to run Mt. Bachelor (also a volcano) for the mountain running national championship then plan to head to South sister and run-summit in July. 

Time for a tea break, Stacey, Mary, Matt and Erin!  You can join in, too, Robin with your iced tea! Stacey, you inspired me to have English Breakfast today, I alternate between Earl Grey and this at work, but have other varieties at home.  Darjeeling = yum!  Jasmine = swoon!

So y'all are having High Tea?

You see some pretty cool stuff. I do miss Colorado's 14ers but I guess I could avail myself more to the mountains we have here.

Oh, so talking with DS2 last night... it's still way way down the road but he was saying the type of sub he wants to crew is only at the base in GA and the one in WA. So I may be visiting (a lot) in a couple years

The sun is out here too, finally.      The temperature is in the 50's.    It's a bloody heat wave.  Today's ride will NOT be on the trainer.     Time to pump up the tires and hit the road.    After that I'm thinking of going to the local high school and see if the football field is solid enough to do an easy barefoot run.    

Gotta take advantage of the weather window. It behooves us to take advantage of the weather window.   It's supposed to last three days.   Then back to winter.  Multitask to maximize.  Thinking, amongst other things, to go kayaking tomorrow.    Break out the grill and the frozen concoction machine.

Sub as in submarine? 

DOOOOOOO EEEEETTTT, DOOOOOO EEEEEEET AAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!  Heat wave here, too.  39, LOL.

DOOOOOOO EEEEETTTT, DOOOOOO EEEEEEET AAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!  Heat wave here, too.  39, LOL.

With our pinkies extended, yes!  

Did my first Sufferfest video in two years at lunch today, "The Rookie", which if you go by IF is the easiest one outside of Elements of Style.  OMG that hurt. 

The ToS is going to kill me. 

Did my first Sufferfest video in two years at lunch today, "The Rookie", which if you go by IF is the easiest one outside of Elements of Style.  OMG that hurt. 

The ToS is going to kill me. 

This is high on my fav list:

I need to try this:

Nah, I think it was their first year of trying out the snow-bird thing as they had JUST retired.  

Hey, I'm older than Salty, at least I was BORN when it erupted!!! 

Yeah but an hour at that IF is a lot harder than Violator which is a bunch of sprints.  It partially depends on what your strength is too.  The Rookie is my favorite video, and I've done them all.  It does a great job of capturing how chaotic pacing in a race can be.

Yeah but an hour at that IF is a lot harder than Violator which is a bunch of sprints.  It partially depends on what your strength is too.  The Rookie is my favorite video, and I've done them all.  It does a great job of capturing how chaotic pacing in a race can be.

This is high on my fav list:

I need to try this:

What was so cool at the time was that I was taking Geology 101 at U of W which was the epicenter of study on the whole thing.  The professors just threw out the textbook and brought in seismograph stuff and pictures as they studied the pre-eruption phase.  They were like kids in a candy store.  As we heard changes in the situation on the news as it unfolded they lectured on the science behind it and their speculations.  That is why we were so interested to see it first hand.

Apple-Cinnamon!!

Yeah, it was tough trying to get the pace right and come anywhere close to the targets on TR, plus I had the video running on my Galaxy Tab and TR on my laptop and they got a little out of synch.  As far the IF goes, I think it'd be way easier to ride an hour at 90% FTP than do that nonsense.  I was cooked pretty good about 1/3 of the way through the third 10' session.