January 5 Run: meet at the parking lot at the Hot Metal Bridge and 2nd Avenue, and New Year’s Day Run at 61C- 7:30 am

January 5 Run: meet at the parking lot at the Hot Metal Bridge and 2^nd Avenue, and New Year’s Day Run at 61C- 7:30 am

Don’t forget to join the New Year’s celebration run at 7:30 am this Wednesday morning, starting at the 61C café in Squirrel Hill.

Next Sunday, we’ll take in some Southside from the parking lot by the Hot Metal Bridge and have coffee at the Indigo Hotel’s Eliza restaurant ,after.

This week’s runs included an ethereal cemetery tour through the thick Christmas morning fog on Wednesday, and a slow climb up Troy Hill, on Sunday, to tour that hidden gem of a neighborhood. We befriended an authentic 40 year local who sang the praises of the overstuffed hoagies at   Pear and the Pickle (see endorsements). The views from Troy Hill were astounding and, as expected, rain held off until the run was done. Oh ya, and going DOWN Rialto street is way more reasonable than climbing up!

A few endorsements:

·        Troy Hill Restaurants:

·        Pear and the Pickle (which evidently carries Boar’ Head meats and loads them onto oversized hoagies)- doesn’t open early enough for running group coffee

·        Scratch f&b

·        Movies:

·        Knives Out

·        Uncut Gems

And of course,  Little Women - most notable for its amazing costuming, especially the SONTAG shawl, which Roye will no doubt be sporting in cashmere well before Spring!

Bingeworthy:

The Durrells in Corfu- the daily adventures of a most imperfect British family embracing life on the Greek Island of Corfu (on Amazon Prime) .

EM