Done!

Unofficial time 23:15:15. Waiting for results and NewSLU. We are frollicking in the ocean and I am eating clam chowder as I blog. Check back.

UPDATED: New SLU finished 20th in 25:07:09. All-Starz 6th overall, 2nd in the Mixed Open Division (to overall winners Team New Balance Boston (read: ringers), who beat Hello Kitty AC by 6 minutes and 20 seconds in a race that came down to the wire).

Spankies!

Liz just donned Tora's SLU jersey top and has the lo-jack on her ankle. (She opted against also borrowing the spankies that complete the uni, which Tora ran in.)

Norris in the old candy-cane jersey and thigh-spit shorts also was in old school uni.

Look for us at the beach.

These pretzels are making me thirsty

Van 1 done

All finished up with our third runs. Everyone was looking great out there! Just picked up some coldies and hanging out at A Barr place waiting for the rest of the team to run by. see you at the beach! It's actually nice weather for it this time too!

stir it up!

Morning time. Lawton had to break out the classic Rasta Pasta 94 shirt for the last run. New SLU kids were frightened for sure.

Starting the 3rd Set

We made it to Bear Brook State Park - a place that normally is a dark, rainy refugee camp for vans - in a totally new perspective. The sun is out, it's finally warming up, the fog/haze is burning off, and there aren't so many vans you can't even troll through looking for parking at 5 m.p.h.

Today we found it sunny, Liz handed off to Lawton about 7:40 a.m. - about 22 minutes behind our projected time, not bad given previous years. For his last leg, a 9.3 mile uphill monster, Lawton is wearing a '94 Rasta Pasta tshirt with the sleeves cut off and a "Powerbar" logo ironed onto the front.

The sun's shining on the Saints today.

That was NOT nice & easy...

Hogan: I said no hills. Um, 300 feet-2 mile descent, 250 foot-2 mile ascent, then a steep rolly 2.5 miles. Ugh. Managed 47:07 for 7.1 miles. Handed off to Tora around 6:20 a.m.

In other news, I ran into daylight, which made the finish even worse, as you could see the long, gradual uphill from a mile out. Kinda wish I'd still been in the dark for that, but I crushed about 14 or so pieces of low hanging fruit. The Front Runners (who had a male team that started at 4 p.m., but have a bunch of teams) are still hanging around (overlapping some of them at Transition Areas, but we should still be ahead of their 4pm team...