East End Runners

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

April 24 (Easter Sunday) run: Commonplace Coffee to start

Next up: April 24, Easter Sunday – will start at Commonplace Coffee and go somewhere, depending.

Today’s running weather was like Baby Bear’s porridge – not too cold, not too hot – and the route took us from Pt. Breeze to Regent Square – almost close enough to Virginia’s house to smell the coffee – and then back again through Frick Park and the cemetery, where the new leaves are just a green haze in the distance. Continued grumbling was overheard regarding the failure several weeks ago to circle PNC Park on Opening Day – it’s clear it won’t stop until we correct this outrage - and some more, though not nearly as much as you would expect, on the seemingly endless uphill stretches. We asked group scientist Jan how it is possible to go up so much more than down, and she assured us that Pittsburgh geological conditions are unique in this regard. However, she was adamant on the point of handwriting analysis, which is COMPLETELY unscientific. By the time we got to that, we had settled down to coffee, where – probably to make up for last week – iPhones were laid down on the table like revolvers in a John Wayne film, and the tip of the week is: use some app (ask Aimee) to let you read .pdf’s on it, and then transfer all your recipes! You can also see the Taylor Allderdice yearbook for Max’s Dad’s class (he is 95) from cover to cover. BUT can you watch Breaking Bad on it? More grumbling surfaced about how you can’t do anything these days that doesn’t involve Facebook or Groupon – but then it became clear that the latter was instrumental in getting some of our runners into rowing, about which they are pretty psyched, so hey, it’s not all bad. Just so they don’t jump ship!

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