Category: recreational fun & games
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It’s a jungle out there!
Along with checking out fireworks yesterday, we also ran in the Palisades Will Rogers 5K & 10K in Pacific Palisades, CA. it’s a challenging course with a very nasty hill at about mile three that goes steadily up for about a mile. It sells itself as a neighborhood run, and encourages families (that means lots…
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Happy birthday, USA!
Yesterday was the 4th of July and as we have been doing for the past few years, we went over to our friend Barbara’s house to BBQ and watch the Rose Bowl fireworks. It was the usual fun affair, with good food and drink and excellent fireworks. this year there were more kabooming fireworks than…
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Chuck and Eileen’s Excellent Adventure
We are flying out of LAX tomorrow at 6am, heading first to Denver, then on to Rapid City, South Dakota. From there we are renting a car and driving to Deadwood for – drum roll, please – the Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon. I’m both excited and a little alarmed at the prospect of running 26.2…
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El Prieto 2006 edition and assorted other weekend activities
This past weekend was quite a whirlwind of activity. In fact, all of last week was a whirlwind of activity. We were in San Diego from Tuesday around noon to Friday around noon on business, then we drove to Pasadena so we could mark the trail for Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap. We were done…
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Up close and personal
This past weekend was USC commencement, and as a friend of ours was graduating, we attended with her family (several of whom were also staying at our house). It was quite the orgy of celebration – it started with dinner the night before, then continued all day Friday, concluding with a final blow-out meal at…
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Have you ever had one of those days where you say to yourself, “Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time”?
Yesterday was a day like that. As I have mentioned, we are training for a marathon in South Dakota in early June. In preparation, we’ve been trying to do longer and longer runs; last weekend we ran ten miles, so this weekend we were going to go for 12 miles. We thought it would be…
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