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Post by Dave on Apr 25, 2010 12:53:20 GMT -5
Anyone participating this year? (Running or other duties, like Kit and I on the radios?) Anyone been to the "Boilermaker Park" in Utica? I just noticed this article at: www.boilermaker.com/news/entry.php?id=402 |
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Post by Dave on Jul 8, 2010 15:46:42 GMT -5
Coming up this weekend. How I hope the heat breaks, which I now hear will occur on Saturday. But I've been "misled" by weathermen before to believe that a real cool break is in the offing, and then the temperature drops only 5 or 6 degrees!
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Post by keith on Jul 8, 2010 21:23:29 GMT -5
My wife & I will be doing volunteer work tomorrow at the Health Expo. With any luck we'll be under a tent when the "cold" front rolls through.
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Post by Dave on Jul 13, 2010 19:28:00 GMT -5
Well, Sunday dawned cool and sunny. Let's say cool enough, although the heat then began to rapidly build. I was shifted from my usual position in front of the State Hospital (do you think they know or suspect something?) to the Kernan Firehouse on Whitesboro Street when our crew suffered an unexpected loss of participants. (I join with a radio club in providing amateur radio "health and welfare" radio communications to take the load off the police and fire frequencies. We're the people who, among other tasks, report where a downed runner was taken for observation so you know at which hospital to pick up your husband or wife, non-essential but necessary radio traffic.)
Lots of fun, even for us non-runners. Across the street was the GE Ski Club who provided water and ice to runners, and set up in the firehouse doorway was the loudest DJ (and music) I've heard in a long time. Located just before mile 9, I'm always amazed at the number of West Uticans who walk from their homes to the the race route to cheer on the runners and wave signs reading, "Welcome To West Utica" and "You're almost there!"
It seems everyone catches the fever. Stopping in Oriskany for coffee at about 5:45 a.m., the fellow running the store saw my volunteer shirt and gave me my coffee for free. We stayed in Rome and ate at the Savoy on Saturday night. While I was away from the table, Mrs. Dave recognized franckor as he was leaving and shouted, but the crowd was so dense he didn't hear her.
Our conversation throughout dinner went mostly like this.
"I think we've been here."
"Well, I've been driving by here since I was a kid, and I think I MUST have been here, but I'm not sure."
"I remember going to the Beeches in the sixties."
"I definitely remember going to Coal Yard Charlies one night in college and .... oh, never mind."
"It all looks too familiar for us to have not been here."
"OK, then, we've been here."
But I really can't say for sure.
"Some-timers" isn't much fun.
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