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A good cry on the train

 
 
dagmaraka
 
  3  
Sat 27 Sep, 2008 05:04 pm
19th October is the day of Amsterdam marathon... Also half-marathon and 7.5 km. All three are open for registration. I almost have no excuse not to go. WWJND?
I'm glad you picked the bottom photo, I was rooting for it. Great eye, Izzie.
ossobuco
 
  1  
Sat 27 Sep, 2008 05:08 pm
@dagmaraka,
I remember a world record being set in Rotterdam... one interesting thing about a flat place to run..
ossobuco
 
  1  
Sat 27 Sep, 2008 05:21 pm
@ossobuco,
Perfect dewdrops, Izzie, specially the first.

On the two landscape photos, they remind me so much of what I call north north - the coastal area of California up near Oregon. Eureka had an Irish Shop. Expensive, but it fit our general area.

CI, I have done paintings like that. Not that they are classic, but that those two Izzie photos nearly cry to be painted except that they are perfect as photos. Number one, except I don't want to vote.
(I painted right away after I moved there, loving the light, et al .. but am still not sparked here in brightville. Not to mention it's been done to death, mostly cloyingly. That's all that's in the local galleries, virulent sunsets.
Well, attractions vary, and vary over time.)
Joe Nation
 
  2  
Sat 27 Sep, 2008 08:42 pm
@dagmaraka,
I think you should try the 7.5km. You are very strong, D, just get out there and make us all proud.
Iz : There is a a universe in those dewdrops.

I'll have to come next year in the late summer, we'll have marmalade and cream cheese on crusty bread with fresh squeezed Orange Juice (maybe a little frozen Vodka in there to hold off the chill. ) I'll read aloud from Under Milk Wood

Quote:
"Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and
pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the
fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen
and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with
rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the
organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked of the bucking ranches of the
night and the jollyrodgered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep
in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wet-nosed yard;
and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling, on
the one cloud of the roofs.

You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.


Then we will lean against each other, back to back, and listen to Existence speak.

Joe(It says "Be Well. Be Here. Be Alive.)Nation
Eva
 
  1  
Sat 27 Sep, 2008 09:33 pm
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:

BTW, (I think Eva will find this delicious.) ...


<grinning>
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ossobuco
 
  2  
Sat 27 Sep, 2008 09:43 pm
@ossobuco,
Never mind painting, look at these photos (which I do like). Where do your eyes land?
Joe Nation
 
  3  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 10:30 am
@ossobuco,
The (we need to name each one of the landscapes, I think) the one with the fewer animals, the one I picked for my desktop, leads my eye outward and, using the bigger trees on the right like a pinball bumper, guides me down through the distant trees to the walled fields beyond. I want a nap and a picnic, but not in that order.

====
I'm back from the 18 mile run. It's just starting to drizzle so instead of going up to the park for lunch I am going to take a nap here for a couple of hours.
I thought about three things during the race. Having a steak with eggs for breakfast when I got home, having a nap after in the park and sex, er, sox. I did think about sex during the run afterall it did last more than seven minutes and it is a well known fact that men think about sex about every seven minutes.*

They think about it even more when they are wearing nothing but underwear and a hat while surrounded by thousands of females wearing nothing but running bras and little teeny skin-tight pantie-like short shorts. (Someone should tell the ladies wearing the white ones that the shorts go from semi-translucent to nearly transparent as one perspires in them. Ya.)

But I was saying that I had been thinking about sox and that was especially true today. I think I have to buy some new ones because the ones I wore today began to feel like sandpaper at about seven miles and developed into a full "Bed of Nails" by eleven miles. Then..... they were fine, I think my feet just shut off the nerves on my soles.

I was determined not to be in any hurry today which was good because my right knee decided it didn't want to do anymore moving at about 16 miles.
"For CRYeye," I said, "Two fricking miles to go and you start complaining???!!
"Jes" said my knee who thinks he is a Hispanic guitarist, "and yo go no mas."

I actually stopped at seventeen and half miles (!!) to throttle the little creep. I never stop, never (except to, you know, off load.), then I remembered that the same thing had happened in the marathon last year at about 24 miles. Sooooo.... I massaged his little Spanish right side and the back of my calf.... and then ran to the finish. (about three hours and 30 minutes..no landspeed record for sure.) Thing is, after the race, no ache or pains anywhere. Hmm.

Oh, one other thing. Oh, nevermind, it's too gross.

Okay. Love to all. Nap time for me.

Joe(zzzzzzz)Nation
JPB
 
  1  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 10:36 am
@Joe Nation,
geez, joe -- if you spent less time looking at those skimpy bras and running shorts you wouldn't need to stop to off load so often Wink

Well done on finishing your race.
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edgarblythe
 
  1  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 10:39 am
@Joe Nation,
I don't reply much to the running segments, I guess because I am not made to run. I can power walk or merely walk forever, but running is not a thing my body handles well. Same with swimming. I have been able to swim, after a fashion, ever since the times my brothers and I played in the irrigation canals in Fresno. In a short time, I tend to sink, however.
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dagmaraka
 
  3  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 10:47 am
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:

I think you should try the 7.5km. You are very strong, D, just get out there and make us all proud.
Iz : There is a a universe in those dewdrops.

I'll have to come next year in the late summer, we'll have marmalade and cream cheese on crusty bread with fresh squeezed Orange Juice (maybe a little frozen Vodka in there to hold off the chill. ) I'll read aloud from Under Milk Wood

Quote:
"Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and
pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the
fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen
and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with
rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the
organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked of the bucking ranches of the
night and the jollyrodgered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep
in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wet-nosed yard;
and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling, on
the one cloud of the roofs.

You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.


Then we will lean against each other, back to back, and listen to Existence speak.

Joe(It says "Be Well. Be Here. Be Alive.)Nation



Just remember to stop in The Hague, too, Joe (Everywhere) Nation!
I think I will do the 7.5 km run. I feel that's a good start for races. After all, that's about the lenght of what I ran daily back in Bahstin back in the day.
I would take pictures, but it is not to be. My camera, along with my Nieman Narrative sweatshirt, are resting on the bottom of a river in Amsterdamse Bos. Not on purpose, of course. I managed to capsize today in a canoe. My cellphone is working, and is being dried with a haridryer intermittently. My wallet and keys made it, that's good. iPod is dead, but to hell with it. Never liked the bugger.
Now if you excuse me, I have to go kill my housemate who thinks he's a wonderful singer, but the truth is he's just wailing like an injured retarded banshee.
Izzie
 
  2  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 03:18 pm
@dagmaraka,
OMGosh Dag.... you ended up in the water gal.... no no no.... too cold to be swimming over there!!!!! So sorry for the things that are waterlogged..... WWJND.... run with them ‘til they got dry! Glad you got your keys and hoping your mobile will dry out. No camera... oh heck.... so sorry. Pleased you are safe tho! Hey, if you’re over this side of the channel, give me a shout " canoeing... yep.... swimming... nope nada no chance! You take care.

So Joe (how the heck does anyone run that far???) Nation
Didn’t you do well a?????

Hope you have had a good rest now and... errrrm.... found somewhere private to offload when required! (sorry.... so not laughing!)

Well, I finally got my laptop back that has been in the shop for 2 months " AND.... tho I had to stand (well, I didn’t, I sat on the shop’s counter !!!! ) for 2 hours " most of my data has been retrieved and I now have my toy and lifeline back. So... as the silence was deafening here in the dark, have been playing....

Made a video of the world over this side of the pond which filled a little time... (pic quality is just pants tho!)




Now... what to do with the next few hours!!!

Ack... stomach is telling me I ought to eat... ack!

Sleep well Mr. Nation

Iz (would make a good ventriloquists puppet)zie
Joe Nation
 
  3  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 07:03 pm
Right.

(I'm trying to learn to speak Brit.)
(A special friend of mine speaks it.)

AH, Dag. So sorry about the capsize! What were you doing when it happened?? Let us all know how you are.
Looking forward to hearing about the 7.5 and, of course, The Hague is on my itinerary.

=
Edgar, I am as bored with the running themes as you are. I report them mostly as the therapy that they are for me. I wish that there was a drink or a pill as uplifting for me as a simple five mile run, but there isn't as far as I know.
===
Well, IZ, I have now watched your montage three times and have seen something new each time. I feel very honored that you would take the time to put it together.

How does one run eighteen miles? One foot, one dewdrop, one dragonfly's wing, one sunbeam at a time.

You have a great gift, a great eye. Thank you.

====
The grocery man has come.
I'm baking the frozen bread for my morning's breakfast and then off to bed.

Joe(sweetest dreams to everyone.)Nation


edgarblythe
 
  3  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 07:52 pm
@Joe Nation,
I did not intend implying the running themes are boring, only that I can read along, but cannot contribute to the flow of the threads.
devriesj
 
  2  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 08:12 pm
@edgarblythe,
First of all, well done Joe!!!
And, Iz- girlie, loved the vid- and the song. What a talent you are! Very Happy
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margo
 
  2  
Sun 28 Sep, 2008 08:40 pm
@Izzie,
Izzie

Wow!

Dun good!
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Izzie
 
  1  
Mon 29 Sep, 2008 05:16 pm
@Joe Nation,
Hey Joe (has an excellent command of the English language) Nation

<smiles>


(peeking in to say hey, happy day, g'nite - being very quiet before I'm told to "go bed".... I've gone really, this is not me.... I'm zzzzzing already)


nitey nite

Iz (where did that day go, gone to find a dreamcatcher fairy) zie x

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littlek
 
  1  
Mon 29 Sep, 2008 05:21 pm
@dagmaraka,
Aha! Here's Dag's commentary. Hope the housemate survives......
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jespah
 
  2  
Tue 30 Sep, 2008 04:31 am
Oof back after a few days' absence, will read up when I can. Hope all's well here folks.
High Seas
 
  2  
Tue 30 Sep, 2008 02:40 pm
@jespah,
...what Jespah said, amended to a few weeks' absence.... Fun news from the high seas, in hopes of making Joe laugh:

Quote:
“………………the pirates had been misunderstood. “We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits,” he said. “We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.”
The pirates who answered the phone call on Tuesday morning from The New York Times said they were speaking by satellite phone from the bridge of the Faina, the Ukrainian cargo ship that was hijacked about 200 miles off the coast of Somalia on Thursday. Several pirates talked.........................”
Izzie
 
  2  
Tue 30 Sep, 2008 05:13 pm
@High Seas,
Hey Joe (didya have a good day) Nation

wet, grey, mis day today - no worries - love mist - soooooooooo msyterious and swirly and so close, but you just can't reach it! Walking thru a cloud.... can't see forward, can't see back, envelopes you and clings on but in a peacefeul sorta way.... just lovely really.

Off to meet the dreamcatcher again.

Have a fab day tomoz and ..... just BE!

Iz (hugs nite) zie x




JES.... did you have the fabbest weekend.... spill girlie... details. hugs xxxx
 

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