Dec. 30 Run: South Side starting at 18th St. and Riverfront Park (Also Christmas holiday run starting at 7:30 from Commonplace)

Next Sunday, Cheryl proposes a South Side run where we will start around the new dog park at Riverfront Park off of 18^th St. (many runners may remember this from one of our summer runs).   To park, just go over the Hot Metal Bridge, take a right on Carson, and then another right when you reach 18th and head for the river.

Coffee is planned for Big Dog.  Also don’t forget the holiday runs on Xmas and New Years Day, starting as always at 7:30 (the big sleep-in!) at Commonplace.  Am assuming that the normal Wed. & Fri. runs will go at their usual ungodly hour: please alert if not.

Our run yesterday tried to hit all the best local holiday inflatables, though sadly, by 7:30 a lot of them were just puddles of plastic on the cold ground.  Come on, people, take some responsibility!  Deflated inflatables should be outlawed, just like those horrible PVC pipe menorahs, on the grounds of being an offense to civilization. 

SCIENCE was the theme of the day:

1. The Nutcracker:  are ballet dancers’ feet the same as ours?  What is in those shoes?

2. How to get rid of the dreaded midriff pouf?  Answers:

• Buy some Spanx
• Become a crazy rower like Anne Jane
• Stop worrying about it because it actually helps prevent osteoporosis 

3. Segue to:  doctors to see for osteoporosis:  Susan Greenspan, an endocrinologist, who hints at the above statement.  Also rheumatologists.  It is clear that this discussion will go on indefinitely.

4. Food from the Mad Men era (well, cooking is just heat applied to deceased animals and plants, yes?)  Here there was some nostalgia and also groaning:

• Numerous things you can make with Lipton Onion Soup Mix and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup, too many to count
• Various incarnations of jello, aka congealed salad
• Desserts!  A Passover delectation made with matzo soaked in cointreau and Nutella, bourbon balls made with vanilla wafers, and No-apple Ritz Cracker pie, which is best eaten in an altered state of consciousness.
• Our resident science teacher knows how to cook a rat, or failing that, a mouse

Recipes available on request!

Another idea:  should we get with the social media program and become a Meet-Up Group?  TBC…

Roye