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Awesome!
This is what happens when you get a bunch of Mentos, a couple of liters of Diet Coke, and some addicitve
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Chapter Two of our South Dakota vacation saga: We run the marathon and get very tired
The marathon was on a rails-to-trails course, which means it was super easy on the old dawgs. The biggest problem we had was with grit from the trail kicking up into our shoes. We had to stop once or twice just to empty them. Other than that, the main things that slowed us down were
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Living in the wild, wild west
We did it! We ran 26.2 miles at the Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon and survived to tell the tale! Actually we briskly hiked the first thirteen in 14-15 minute miles, then ran the last half in 9:30-11:00 minute miles, which averaged out to a finish time of 5:56. Whatever, it was a blast, and we
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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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In the gloaming
Jet trails Originally uploaded by eoshea. We spent the day helping my niece move to Lake Elizabeth, which is about 20 minutes northeast of Lancaster. On the drive home, I glanced to my right and was treated to a breathtaking sunset, courtesy of a myriad of jet trails crisscrossing the sky. I took out my
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O brave new world, that has such wonders in it!
So it’s happened – we have new toilets! The guys arrived at about 10am and by noon, we had new johns! They stuck a camera down our pipes before installing the Totos, to see if we had any pipe problems that could have been causing the clogging, but happily there was nothing. The old toilets
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