Relating to interactions and practices on a broad scale
• It’s bound to happen sometimes • [1 MIN READ] A few intrepids appeared below the Northwestern Ave horse stables for the past 10’07’S SRC run, despite the rainy forecast. In actuality, there was no rain and the few that convened couldn’t resist remarking: “It was supposed to rain, right? Nothing’s happening now at least.” … More So We Agree? (#138: ZY Weekly Newsletter 10/7/23)
• For prospective new members • [1 MIN READ] Join the weekly Wednesday Growlers Group Run (6:30p)! We have a presence on Facebook where you can read weekly run reminders: No FB subscription required. I also send this same reminder out via email. These days we’re pacing 9-12 min/mile (and aging 20-60) making sure to regroup every … More This is the GGR
• Running and talking do go together • [1½ MIN READ] With fall race season upon us, a few in the Growlers’ midst have been eager to work on speed. The question is how to manage the already different paces that various members run. Back in the day when I first started running with the … More Speed Work and Socializing (#223: 2023’09’20’W)
• Not just because we’ve always done it that way • [1 MIN READ] In anticipation of Wickedly Wet Wednesday (3rd of every month.), Jason asked the question, Why do we decamp to Human Robot every time? (Not his exact wording.) It wasn’t about getting beer, which we can do in the Jenkintown Running Company store with no … More WWW at Human Robot, Again? (#222: 2023’09’13’W)
• Who’s honking? • [½ MIN READ] I’ve complained about others sharing the trail with us (I Couldn’t Say), but sometimes the sharing problem is with us aggressive trail users. Jimmy Dee shared about a time a bunch of years ago when he was the one. JIMMY DEE?! Do you believe it? (Yes, shared with … More Sharing the Trail (#133: ZY Weekly Newsletter 8/19/23)
• A lesson in the history of journalism • [2 MIN READ] One week’s Submarine Route run was prompted only in part by a desire to shake up the S5K Route run which has become the Growlers Group Run SOP (standard operating procedure). The other degree of appeal was the opportunity for a newbie to … More Sensationalism (#217: 2023’08’09’W)
• Whom I happen to know better than anyone else • [1 MIN READ] The more socially outward among us know how to focus on other people. And I don’t mean extroverts here. I mean those who can keep attention on other people over themselves. I just returned from 12 days in native Alaska during … More All About Me (#213: 2023’07’12’W)
• Where do we take it? • [2½ MIN READ] No one wishes each other Happy Juneteenth. Not in the spaces where I hover. And I have 4 Black neighbors within 3 houses on all sides of me. Fair, one of them has a speech aphasia that developed in her later years, but that’s beside … More A Juneteenth Greeting
• Developing a voice • [2 MIN READ] On Monday, the 19th of June 2023, I woke up feeling compelled to reach out to a few close Black friends by saying Happy Juneteenth. One, a mere day before on Sunday had texted me a warm Happy Father’s Day greeting. Another had sent me a considerate … More Juneteenth
• Finding new comfort zones • [2½ MIN READ] Running is not only great physically, but also socially. It’s given me opportunities to interact with people of all stripes in spaces where I wouldn’t otherwise. As a practice, I started saying hi to people right from the start (we’re talking in 2011 as a middle-aged … More New Communities
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