Re: Scranton PA Boomers and advice
Ribs,
I live about 2 hours away. My "little" brother lives just outside Scranton. He's a farrier, works mostly with race horses at Pocono Downs.
Scranton is noted for several things
depleted coal mines
the Steamtown museum dedicated to coal burning locomotives
hills from whence they used to dig the coal.
Plan on some really good hill runs. Alternately, I can have my brother arrange for you run to run on the local track.... Nice half mile oval with a dirt surface. There will be some other runners training there - all of them pulling sulkies. The locker rooms are a bit rustic, no heat, cold water hoses. However, your changing area gets mucked out daily and you'll get all the corn mash you can eat.
Let me know which days you'll be in Scranton.
Oh, yes... some more advice. Be conservative in your running outfits. The town is pretty blue-collar, lots of out-of-work miners, truck drivers, railroad folks, some small time farmers. They do NOT have a cosmopolitan worldview. And a good number of them have been inter-breeding up in the mountains for several generations.
The sight of a grown man running the backroads dressed in yellow-scarlet coordinated running outfit will certainly generate attention you won't enjoy.
http://This message has been edited by ptbrown (edited Jun-08-2007).
. . . too much. 
you don't scare me either! 
