| Fill'er up! Tim pours hi-test into Giovanna's bottle. |
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| Cheryl Smoker manages a smile for the camera before hitting the tofu. |
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| Ok, camera moment is over. Food please! |
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Aid station staff struggle with this deep question: Do runners prefer their sandwiches cut vertically or on the diagonal?
(Yes, teenage girls will argue over anything. And if you see my daughter, please tell her she should go out for the debate team. I've told her myself but she only argues with me over it.) |
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| Kim Duty starts thinking about the merits of wearing a brown print top for next year. |
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| Stuart Kern chugs in for some tofu. |
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| Phil Story tries to explain how bad it is out there. He thinks I'm kidding! |
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Everyone's looking down. Like they don't trust their footing. How curious.
(Can't identify first runner - bibs anyone?! - but 2nd runner is Renee Laughlin.) |
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| Jhon Ramirez, 17, thinking that maybe there are easier ways to get out of doing his homework. |
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| Cups only waste time. |
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| Unlike Jhon, Allen Garneau shows up with bottles galore. |
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| Phil Hough's shirt suggests he's done this before. |
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| Phil and Allen find our 5 lb bag of boiled potatos! |
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| Jeff Evans looking exceedingly happy to be on solid ground. |
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Lyman Jordan insisting that he's going to come back later and re-measure the course for accuracy. Something about a little mud.
PS: His race report is a must read! |
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| John Kinnaman heard there was some tofu about. (If you look behind him, you can see it at the entrance to the parking lot, beckoning to runners. I walk over there to see if I can get some photos from the viewpoint of a block of moist protein ...) |
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Wyatt Hornsby runs right by it - not hungry, I guess.
PS: Notice the two girls cooperating on check-in duty? Girl #1 yells out the bib number. Girl #2 finds it on the sheet and checks it off. Teamwork! (Note: For reasons of privacy, girls are intentionally not identified by name. Plus "#1" is just so much easier to remember!) |
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| Jen Jacobs gets an eyeful and doesn't like what she sees. (Admittedly, it had slid off the plate earlier in the day and broke in half. But hey, with a name like tofu, it has to be good! |
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| Gretchen Powell thinks the cardboard side dish might taste better. |
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| Carrie Temple gives the cardboard a pass, too. |
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| Jeff Radan pays no attention to our sad sense of humor. |
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| Victor Lin breezes by. (Leave me alone, I'm here for the sugar!) |
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| Catherine Keane finally gives us the look we were going for! |
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| Bob Anderson on his way to finishing first in his age group. |
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| A study in hydration systems: on-the-back vs on-the-hand. |
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| ... and the two-fisted drinking approach was popular, too. |
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| Marti Kovenor proudly wears her VHTRC shirt sparking discussion with a favorable comparison of this year's conditions to last year's BRR. (Where favorable means bad!) |
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| Ramira Munoz wonders why he traveled all the way from NY for this abuse. (And if he'll do it all again next year!)
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| Tofu - it's everywhere you want to be. |
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| You've got questions. We've got tofu. |
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| Tom Witte gives the photographer the glare, not the tofu. Uh oh. |
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| Kevin Sayers puts it in perspective by wearing his 100 Mile Fun Run Trail Party shirt from the Javelina Jundred. When you cross that finish line you don't get a medal or buckle - you get a stuffed pig. |
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| Michelle Price breezes in with a few choice words about some signs she noticed along the course. |
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| John Laird comes through pleased to see that there's still some cardboard left. |
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| Michele gingerly tries the boiled potatoes and banana muffins - hoping that all this food isn't just tofu in disguise. |
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| No, it's not all fun and games. Tim gets his workout after all. |
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| Jamie Kunze sees those rainbow goldfish. Ummm! |
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Profound words from Mark Radan:
Hi mom! |
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| Glenn Landis strikes a pose suitable for the statue they're going to erect of him later in life. |
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| Beth Masters was so happy until she found out this wasn't the finish line. |
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| Josh Jacobs shows up wearing gaiters - good idea! |
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| Tim opens yet another box of Peeps just in time for Ian Jeffries and Mike Bur to arrive. |
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| Diana Widdowson dressed in shades of mauve. Just a bit early for Spring but looking good anyway! |
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| Vitamin I, please! |
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| Thomas Duty lucks out - wearing a knee orthotic turns out to be a very good move today. No blood here! |
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| Joshua Dennis rolls on in and asks for anything but tofu. |
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| Daniel Rosenberg is so excited to arrive, he stays with us awhile. (No sorry, we don't have a bed here!) |
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| Ever wonder what people are thinking while doing this? |
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| You can't run for 6 hours without eating real food! Cathy Blessing bypasses the junk and hits the boiled potatos and salt. (Hey, no Pringles?!) |
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| We sure hope Tom Corris is ingesting and not outgesting. |
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