Walks: Sat-Wed, Sep 15 to 19

The cultural component of last Saturday's epic 29.3K

This is an especially long post, so please scan the headers, especially the one about requests:

First, the week's distances:

Here, the September half marathoners and full marathon trainees part company for a while – unless you're Ruth, who's doing all three! For the Detroit Full, the schedule says 29K. As that's what we ended up doing last week, I'll leave the distance and start time to you to decide.

Other scheduled distances for Saturday: Toad, 18K; Detroit Half, 16K; KW, 8K. As Bob and I are doing them all, with two races on the next two weekends, we've decided to compromise with 10K. The long distance walkers might want to start at 7:30; with those going less starting at 8 am. Sign in to state your preference.

Monday: Detroit Full, 13K; Toad, 10K; Detroit Half, 8K; KW, 6K.

Wednesday: Toad, 10K; Detroit Full and Detroit Half, 8K; KW, 5K. We're back to Occasions for hills: Detroit Full, 12 hills. The rest of us, fit in as many hills you can.

Next, some requests:

Photographs! If you have any shots of this year's events, please send them along in the highest possible resolution (aka, largest size). I'm doing the book and calendar now. One special request is for an un-blurry photo of our huge Resolution 5K team, if you have one.

Party & volunteers! Lou-Ann has reserved the room at her church for our party on November 10. We'll need one more volunteer to join Jan and Bob on our Awards Committee. We'll need set-up people and (hopefully not the same) clean-up people for the night. And, also, start dusting off your pot luck recipes. Please email me a) if you're attending, and with how many, and b) if you can help.

Orders! Let me know if you want a calendar this year (approx. $20), and especially if you'd like a yearbook. Knowing who wants a book (usually just a few) helps me organize the pictures.

Finally, good wishes:

We're in the thick of the September birthday season now, so very happy birthdays to Margy, Denise, Debbie and Fiona. We hope it brings each of you exactly what you want.

And hearty congratulations to Olwyn, whose all-women-of-a-certain-age Flaming Dragons took silver in last Saturday's dragon boat regatta, in the teeming rain, against some very tough (younger, mixed gender) competition. Great going, gals!