Sun's out ...

My wife was stuck inside in a conference center all day, so she had no idea how beautiful it was out there for December 11. Here was our text exchange around lunch time.

Idiot Coach: So. This is what it's like to be a track coach in North Carolina.

Beautiful Wife: Is it nice out?

Idiot Coach: (with this photo attached). Yeah man. Sun's out, guns out.

Fortunately for us, she did not reply to the text of this "photo" of Rizzo (left), Deet (right) and in the middle The Man Himself, a one-man Cult Hero of the track team (even though he was never technically ON the track team!) ... and that would be none other than aspiring professional triathlete Nick Vandermolen (aka: DUDE or BRO). Nick was a record-setting swimmer at Marist and dabbled in track after his senior swim season was completed. He hung with the boys on a 4-mile progressive tempo on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail on this lovely day. Great to have him back. And great to have this weather!

If this is what winter is gonna be like, I'm gonna LIKE it. OK!