The Montreal Coolrunners and Hurley's Pub: An Intimate Relationship

Ottawa Marathon Training Day #2: 5k
Distance completed: zilcho

According to my new marathon training schedule, I had a 5k run planned. Still felt quite sick and weak and had a lot of catching up to do so had to nix that idea. OOF! I'm not doing too well ... Went off to meet the Montreal Coolrunners instead at Hurley's, an Irish pub downtown.


Here are pics of the gang (all names are left to right):

1) Joeboxter, Silly Sally and Truxx. JB is holding his framed commemative pics of his first marathon, Las Vegas 2006. How cool! You belong to a special club now, JB!

2) Here's one of the fastest in our gang, Mercury, with his non-running friend, Don. Mercury recently ran a very hilly 10k race in Vermont and ONLY got 40:something ... wow, I think that's my present 5k pace ... geez! He is FAST! Even when he says he didn't have a good race. Don, thanks for putting up with us and our one-track minds (running).

3) More of the gang ... Turtleboy, Silly Sally, Truxx and the lovely Kneejerk. Truxx and I have almost the same approach to racing ... "why train?" ... except he's got all the speed. For some strange reason, he seems to get faster with each training session, one month apart. Ugh. Natural talent ...

4) And finally, Truxx, Kneejerk and Runningag ... Runningag told us that he had entered the Médoc Marathon in France, September 8, 2007. This is a special marathon that winds around 50 castles and wine tasting stations and finishes not only with a medal, but also a bottle of wine. I like ... The only disappointing thing about RG's planned run was his deciding NOT to run as Mr. Peanut ... W-H-A-T?!? How can you DISAPPOINT your fellow runners?