For next Sunday - to our Marathon runners who have been an inspiration to the rest of us for months: bonne chance, buena suerte, super good luck on the race next week! Everyone else will set out from Commonplace as the default spot, usual 7 a.m. time, for parts unknown.
Last Sunday in Frick Park was even more glorious than the previous week, as the trees had just reached that early spring green and pink misty stage, and the temperature was perfect, and spirits were high (probably because the pre-marathon training had finally lightened up - and also because Lainy turned down the job in Philly - many reasons!) I had to miss coffee hour - so no news from there this time. Anyone else - feel free to write in!
Roye
Monday, April 29, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
April 28 Run: Frick Environmental Center (off Beechwood) for another run in the park
Frick Park was so lovely last week that we thought we should just repeat the experience from another angle, so we are starting at the Frick Environmental Center parking lot . We are going to print out the fantastic map of the park that Aimee had and get inspired.
Aimee gets kudos for that run for its somehow giving us literally a new perspective on and from Frick Park - which seems impossible seeing that we've been there a zillion times. But it deserves as many repeats as it gets - it is inexhaustible. People are training for the marathon - coming up soon! - so the coffee hour had a small but lively group, ranging widely over: special hairbands, not-so-friendly Chicago, moving and mementos, solutions for the dreaded marathon chafing situation, and the state of our Buccos. We thought up a future run around Allegheny Commons. And thanks to Wendy's eagle eye, some bonus intel to anyone who reads this message and who wears clothes: May 25: be there.
Aimee gets kudos for that run for its somehow giving us literally a new perspective on and from Frick Park - which seems impossible seeing that we've been there a zillion times. But it deserves as many repeats as it gets - it is inexhaustible. People are training for the marathon - coming up soon! - so the coffee hour had a small but lively group, ranging widely over: special hairbands, not-so-friendly Chicago, moving and mementos, solutions for the dreaded marathon chafing situation, and the state of our Buccos. We thought up a future run around Allegheny Commons. And thanks to Wendy's eagle eye, some bonus intel to anyone who reads this message and who wears clothes: May 25: be there.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
April 21 Run: Blue Slide Park for a Frick Park run
Next Sunday the happily returned Aimee will lead a run through Frick Park starting at Blue Slide Park - also now infamously a hit album by Pittsburgh's own rapper Mac Miller, who I used to see regularly when he was in diapers. Don't even think of googling the lyrics: it's the end of innocence. (For newbies - this is the playground located at the intersection of Beechwood Blvd. and Nicholson St.)
During last week's run I was talking so much I can barely recall where Karen led us: we started at Commonplace, and then I think the next thing I knew we were on the Chatham campus, but when I looked around again we were in Frick Park? It was a lovely run, at any rate. I'm also attributing this lapse to jet lag, which connects nicely with what appeared to be the day's theme: travel! To Shanghai, the Grand Canyon, Paris, Amsterdam, and other points, with some of us endorsing the beauties of travel planned and arranged by experts, like those nice people who arrange for vans to drive alongside your bike routes through the Loire Valley. Also the extraordinary phenomenon of finding stays in people's apartments over the internet: AirBNB, VRBO, TripAdvisor - which can range from awful to sublime. And wasn't it true that we got our coffees to the strains of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by Peter Paul & Mary? Following which we heard some "Tales of Lower Waldron", which despite its name is actually superior to any other part, and which we should tour next Sunday, being so close. And welcome to new runner Jackie!
During last week's run I was talking so much I can barely recall where Karen led us: we started at Commonplace, and then I think the next thing I knew we were on the Chatham campus, but when I looked around again we were in Frick Park? It was a lovely run, at any rate. I'm also attributing this lapse to jet lag, which connects nicely with what appeared to be the day's theme: travel! To Shanghai, the Grand Canyon, Paris, Amsterdam, and other points, with some of us endorsing the beauties of travel planned and arranged by experts, like those nice people who arrange for vans to drive alongside your bike routes through the Loire Valley. Also the extraordinary phenomenon of finding stays in people's apartments over the internet: AirBNB, VRBO, TripAdvisor - which can range from awful to sublime. And wasn't it true that we got our coffees to the strains of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by Peter Paul & Mary? Following which we heard some "Tales of Lower Waldron", which despite its name is actually superior to any other part, and which we should tour next Sunday, being so close. And welcome to new runner Jackie!
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Apr 14 Run: Commonplace Coffee
Those of us left at the end of coffee were not in a creative mood so went with the first thing that came up for next week's run: meet at Commonplace for a TBD run - maybe Frick Park? maybe Beechwood Blvd?
We ran through Schenley Park this morning which despite small patches of green still looks stripped to its bones and waiting for a decorator to fill in the gaps. Thanks to the lack of leaves, we saw two fat raccoons as well as a few deer. We were joined by new mother Aimee - welcome back - and sent good travel thoughts to Roye in Paris.
Only a few of us stuck around for coffee but we had a delightful conversation, sparked by Aimee's questions, about our experiences raising our children. So much of it boiled down to relax, follow your instincts, and let them be the person they are. It was all accompanied by helpful and interesting stories.We also noted that as a mother you are likely to be worrying for the rest of your life (hopefully not obsessively so).
Pam confirmed that the series of books that several of us used: "Your X Year Old" by Louise Bates Ames still are valuable resources.
Virginia recommended the Get Well Room, which is run by the Carriage House in Squirrel Hill. It is a place that slightly under-the-weather children can go.
It's mentioned here in the link to About Carriage House: http://www.carriagehouse.org/about.html
Here's a story about the reopening of the Get Well Room last March when they found Kate Golightly as the nurse.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/childrens-center-get-well-room-reopens-for-business-220968/
We ran through Schenley Park this morning which despite small patches of green still looks stripped to its bones and waiting for a decorator to fill in the gaps. Thanks to the lack of leaves, we saw two fat raccoons as well as a few deer. We were joined by new mother Aimee - welcome back - and sent good travel thoughts to Roye in Paris.
Only a few of us stuck around for coffee but we had a delightful conversation, sparked by Aimee's questions, about our experiences raising our children. So much of it boiled down to relax, follow your instincts, and let them be the person they are. It was all accompanied by helpful and interesting stories.We also noted that as a mother you are likely to be worrying for the rest of your life (hopefully not obsessively so).
Pam confirmed that the series of books that several of us used: "Your X Year Old" by Louise Bates Ames still are valuable resources.
Virginia recommended the Get Well Room, which is run by the Carriage House in Squirrel Hill. It is a place that slightly under-the-weather children can go.
It's mentioned here in the link to About Carriage House: http://www.carriagehouse.org/about.html
Here's a story about the reopening of the Get Well Room last March when they found Kate Golightly as the nurse.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/childrens-center-get-well-room-reopens-for-business-220968/
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