Hi All
Virginia will lead a run through Shadyside next Sunday. Meet at the playground on 5th and Beechwood (the one with the swings etc - not Mellon Park up on the hill). I will not be there so can someone please send me the location of the July 13 run?
Friday being a holiday there will be an informal run starting at the Coffee Tree at 7 AM.
Due to latecomers (me being one of them) there were two group runs this Sunday. Tom lead one of his signature themed runs through Oakland - this one focused on fun Sports related facts (like where the Hornets/Penguins first played in Pittsburgh). I was not on this one but I am sure it was full of interesting and surprising facts and will have to be repeated for those of us who missed it.
I lead Wendy astray and we arrived just as Roye drove up to Phipps. The regular group had left already (although I don't think we were THAT late) so we devised our own run. We started with a stop at the best open bathroom in Oakland and then at Roye's suggestion began a climb up through Schenley Heights. Our goal was Robert E. Williams park which coincidentally is mentioned in a PG article this morning about alternate firework viewing places. I do not have enough fresh adjectives to describe this view from the top of Pittsburgh - it is absolutely spectacular. While taking in the 360 views of our city we devised a plan to raise money to endow a perpetual table at the Coffee Tree, followed by an art project to put up maps at the park to help identify landmarks similar to those found at the Samaritaine Department Store in Paris (thanks to Ann the walker for the name). In fact we were so giddy from the heights (or perhaps lack of coffee) that we dubbed this the Almost Paris in Pittsburgh run and will certainly put this on the roster of future runs.
We did arrive at the Coffee Tree to meet the tail end of the regular running group and then were joined by the walkers so got our Sunday conversation fix.
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