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I'm impressed by all the great junior Swamper runners. When I would try to get my daughter to walk downtown, she'd always groan and say, "Can't we just drive?" So, this is foreign territory to me.

Amazingly, my sedentary daughter now tells me she's regularly going with her roommates to the campus gym at U Washington. I figure there must be an ulterior motive.
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Rass, does your daughter move on to a bigger regional race for USATF now? Our New Englands are this weekend and I think both my kids have a chance to go to Region I in Poughkeepsie. I don't think they or their teams can make Nationals but Reno in December seems nice?
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There is a regional meet in or around Philly on the 18th. We haven't really decided if we're going or not.
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Ryan wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:19 pm Rass, does your daughter move on to a bigger regional race for USATF now? Our New Englands are this weekend and I think both my kids have a chance to go to Region I in Poughkeepsie. I don't think they or their teams can make Nationals but Reno in December seems nice?
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Yeah!
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And a pre-race pasta dinner at the Fishkill Ramada!!!!!!!!
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Fuck that, dude. Mamma Marisa's or nothing.
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Ryan wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:19 pm Rass, does your daughter move on to a bigger regional race for USATF now? Our New Englands are this weekend and I think both my kids have a chance to go to Region I in Poughkeepsie. I don't think they or their teams can make Nationals but Reno in December seems nice?
I thought nationals were in Knoxville.

ETA: We could have a sweet Swamp meetup at Nationals... if my son could qualify.
OTOH, my son's coach has been pestering my daughter to join the team for a couple years. I'm shocked, but she actually wants to now. Not sure what convinced her, because she has fought the idea. She will run all day playing a sport, but won't run for the sake of running. So maybe she can qualify...
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I think AAU is in Knoxville. USATF Nationals are in Reno.
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Grammar rodeo
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Between googling and football and beer and rum and losing my tab and having to rewrite the post ate me.
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rass wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:51 pm Between googling and football and beer and rum and losing my tab and having to rewrite the post ate me.
Which rum?
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At someone else’s house. Give me a sec.
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And are you drinking it straight or with a mixer?
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Straight. Oh no!

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Thanks. Always looking to expand my rum collection, which honestly isn’t great.
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Run is the shittiest of liquors. But still so so good when handled correctly.
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A_B wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:26 pm Run is the shittiest of liquors.
This typo is so great.
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Sabo wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:32 pm
A_B wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:26 pm Run is the shittiest of liquors.
This typo is so great.
To hell with all these swamp kids and their endorphins.
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A_B wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:26 pm Run is the shittiest of liquors. But still so so good when handled correctly.
I’ll make you some tiki drinks sometime that are so good you’ll never* drink bourbon again.

* By never, I mean until tomorrow.
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I like rum. It’s just the bottom of the list.
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Ryan wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:19 pmReno in December seems nice?
Just for the record, Reno is at 4,500 feet, and December is cold and often snowy.
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Hi, I live in New Hampshire
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Ryan wrote: Fri Nov 09, 2018 8:12 am Hi, I live in New Hampshire
So it'll be just like home, except bleak and tacky.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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[Chandler]Well then I guess I'm goin' to Wappingers Falls[/Chandler]
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Good luck to the boy(s?).

My wife is away this weekend, so it wasn't really possible for us to get down to Philly on Saturday. I offered to drive down early Sunday, but the kid wasn't sure she'd be at her best getting up that early and then spending a couple of hours in the car, and chose not to go. It looks like the Philly Marathon is this weekend, and goes through the same park that the USATF Jr XC meet is held at, so it might be a mess anyway.

Her soccer team picked up a last minute extra game on Sunday, so maybe it worked out OK.
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For whatever it's worth, December in Reno is cold as balls (though to be fair, not "New Hampshire cold as balls").

Snow isn't common, but not unheard of (any precipitation would probably be snow, but precipitation in high desert is on the rarer side).
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Yeah now that we're pretty sure Nate's team will qualify, we made up our minds that we're not spending $3K for 8-9 minutes of back-of-the-pack racing.
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The Bowdoin Park course took some damage yesterday. There's a last minute proposal to move it to Van Cortland in the Bronx. This is going great.
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oh no
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That was a lot of Parkways.

(His team won. Now I feel really bad about not going to Reno.)
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He's not gonna be a staaarrrr.
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Yeah but we got different reasons for that

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I'll drop this here.

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Pruitt wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:18 am My son is obsessed with watches. (College student and he works two days a week at a wtch company here in Toronto)

He's opened an etsy site to sell some of the vintage watches that he's picked up at auctions, estate sales and online. He cleans them up, services them and (hopefully) sells them.

I am his head shipper!

Check it out - even if you aren't in the market. Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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rass wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:14 pm
Pruitt wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:18 am My son is obsessed with watches. (College student and he works two days a week at a wtch company here in Toronto)

He's opened an etsy site to sell some of the vintage watches that he's picked up at auctions, estate sales and online. He cleans them up, services them and (hopefully) sells them.

I am his head shipper!

Check it out - even if you aren't in the market. Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/boutiquehorlogerie
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His etsy site didn;t take off, but he made enough money selling the watches that he was able to buy some really nice watches.
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3 Swamp offspring will all be traveling to Spain together in March as Bengal’s son, my son and Geep’s daughter are all going on the same trip.
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I’ve never been to Spain. But I kind of like the music.

(That’s super wild)
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That's rather impressive. So this space transends physical boundaries. Hope the younguns enjoy themselves.
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