Rob Murphy

Hey I see that Salazar and Rupp and Mo Farrah are in Park City training this week. Maybe you can get your team to do a run with them.

It'd be just like in Largo when we ran with Craig Virgin. :)

Trav still talks about when Ritz and his then Hanson Training Group team mates came to Tally in '09? and used our school as base camp for a couple weeks - very cool for the kids

Yeah, Al Sal contacted me last week. Said he was a little busy and was wondering if I could put together some workouts for his guys.

Although I have been dying for some strong beer on tap and this legislation wouldn't affect me in the least if I lived there, I don't see the logic of it.

I know the miles dilemma. When I'm killing myself going up hills, I think I'm as completely exhausted--physically or cardiovascularly--as I am when I've done speedwork on the track. I still call those slow miles because they were, well, slow. I still call them miles, and you should, too.

I used to be totally ignorant regarding trail running. I wondered why these super ultra running 100 miler guys ran less miles/week than I did.

Then I went on a few hard trail runs with lots of climbing and I realized how much less ground you cover with the same or more effort.

If I'm missing the joke - as I have been recently - sorry. But, you are joking about the 3.2% alcohol law, aren't you? Because if you're not, you should move to N Korea/China - I'm sure you'd be able to get something stronger than 3,2% in one of those more liberal countries:)

Just thought about it a little more and although I don't know how or why, but I'm sure there's a joke in what you're saying. You can't have laws that allow fruitcakes to go around with automatic weapons and then have a law that says you can't have alcohol with more than 3.2%.

You nearly had me there Mr Murphy.

Bam,

In order to buy alcohol with a higher percentage in Utah, you must go to the state owned liquor stores. Bars and restaurants can often serve higher percentage too if they've gone through the licensing process.

Bam - It's a fools errand to try and understand Utah's alcohol laws. Even those of us who have lived here for years are often confused. Just when you think you understand them, they change the laws.

Of course this is not an issue for the majority of Utahan's for whom alcohol laws are irrelevant.

Bam - This is a fun topic for the unitiated. One point of clarification, its 4% beer - 3.2% is alcohol by weight and 4% is alcohol by volume which is the customary presentation in the US.

The one rationale for the CO law that I can think of is some times you don't get the 4% you are accustomed to getting and this law allows you to be confident in what you are ordering.

Here are my three favorite arbitrary and capricious laws:

- As discussed, no beer on tap above 4% ABV - I have never heard a rationale for this.

- At restaurants where patrons under 21 can attend (read parents with kids), no eye openers before noon. Brunch is big here and parents with kids basically miss out on the bloody marys/mimosas/whatever your drink is.

- Finally, no more than 1.5 oz (42 grams) of spirits in a cocktail. This causes us to miss out on many of the cocktails as they're intended to be served.

Shush. No 5 'O' about. Safe. I'm emptying my piggy-bank: I'm coming over to open a chain of Bamtastic Speakeasies. They'll be open 24/7 and we'll be selling what ever tickles your fancy. Keep it on the QT. First rouund's (looks like I've had a few too many already) on the house. Sorted.

Insane. I will never understand the human need to control others.

Killer stairs Rob. I have to hand it to you on that many floors. I think you just might be ready for R2R2R.

I read an article recently about how the NPS is really cracking down on people running on Grand Canyon trails.

Why are they cracking down? Meaning they are stopping people mid-run? Aren't the trails there to use?

Jon - I read that Max King was going to attempt the fastest R2R2R time but had to cancel. The article said that they were making a serious effort to prohibit any trail running in the Grand Canyon.

I don't really see how they can do this either. In my two R2R2R crossings I rarely saw a ranger. Steve almost got arrested by an angry female ranger though.

Maybe they should just outlaw trail running on all public lands? You know, to keep us safe.

I really hope they prohibit it. That will cut down on the amount of people there when we run it.

In high school cross country we ran often along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. It was well established by the CCC way back when. last year the city of Logan took it over for "improvements". They immediately posted restrictions along it for animals here, walking there, park benches so people could sit, and closed most of it in the summer until this April. In April they extended the closing until Fall. All on a trail that we have been using since I was a kid without their help. I run it anyways and am yelled at all the time. All those folks that sit on their butts all day and work hard to "enable" others to get out, need to get out of the way of those who already are.

[insert anti-government libertarian rant here]