Summer will be reduced to two days this year...

Yes, yes, I realize we're not even into the actual true summer dates yet, we're still a month away, but, and I mean BUT, after this horrid spring, when summer weather actually comes, you have a certain expectation, a demand really, that it stay longer than two days! But it wasn't to be. After two sweltering days over the weekend, it was back to a steady, if humid, rain today. Blah.

But the weekend! Wow. I was over at the 'rents place in Wapato and mama mia, it was toasty. When I ran on Saturday morning, at about 11:00 am, it was around 94 degrees. I was running on Orchard Way, a little strip of two lane road that's almost exactly a mile long from start to finish, which makes it nice when you're going for a four-mile run.

Yes, it's a dead end.

No, there was no shade to be found. None.

But there was a bunch of absolutely gorgeous wild roses.

Hopefully, it will warm up again for the weekend's races. Get out there and run.


RACES FOR WEEK OF MAY 26TH TO JUNE 1ST

May 31 / Born to Run Challange 15k and 5k / Eugene, OR

May 31 / Falcon 15k Relay, plus 15k, 10k and 5k runs / Hillsboro, OR

May 31 / Monroe Country Fun Run 10k and 5k / Monroe, OR

May 31 / Issaquah Sprint Triathlon and 5k / Issaquah, WA

May 31 / Newport Marathon / Newport, OR

May 31 / Edmonds Rotary Waterfront Festival 5k / Edmonds, WA

May 31 / Keybank Starlight Run / Portland, OR

May 31 / Gleneagle Community Fun Run 10k and 5k / Arlington, WA

May 31 / Hockinson Run Run 5k / Brush Prairie, WA

May 31 / Portland Sprint Triathlon / Vancouver, WA

June 1 / Run for the Hills 8k / Corvallis, OR

June 1 / San Juan Island Marathon and Half-Marathon / Friday Harbor, WA

June 1 / Hagg Lake Open Water Swim 4000m, 2000m, and 800m swim / Forest Grove, OR

June 1 / OHSU Tram Run 5k / Portland, OR