Spring Running Thread

[Pax]

Be glad you headed home when you did, it's actually warmer in the upper Midwest than it is here. It's been cool and tremendously windy here the last couple of weeks.

[OakLeaf]

We actually left for Boston before the hot weather hit at home, hopefully the rain will be done by the time we get back, and it should be more spring-like. With the rain and then drier weather, it should be good mushroom hunting this weekend!

This year the Marathon was commemorating the 50th anniversary of women running, and I thought it was extra fitting that it's the 50th anniversary of Bobbi Gibb's bandit run and not Kathrine Switzer's sneaky registration the following year. At first I thought it was odd to commemorate a bandit, then I realized it just shows the continued importance of civil disobedience in establishing the rights of marginalized people.