August 19, 2010
It was warm and sunny as John Domico, Tom Cali, Bob Cornwall, Judd Michael, Lance Bland, Jim Moore, Costas Maranas, John Sheakoski, Andrew Webb, Randy Jepson, George Lesieutre, Kevin Becker, Jonathan Thurley, Dave DeGroote, Rob Peterson, Matt Degges, Rob Shaver, Jim Laudermilch, Matt Soccio and Marty Mazur headed for the track. A stag crew. Are the girls boycotting because there are no female DCR Captains this year? Hey, I voted for Meira!
Bwana had the Crew do the algebra workout: NX3X300, where N is determined by a complicated formula involving the heat, phase of the moon, and whether you're running a two-a-day by heading to the Tussey Training Run in the evening. It seemed like many runners solved the equation with N=2, rather than the suggested 3 or 4. Hey, even for those who ended up going to Tussey: Wrong Answer! Strong Two-a-Days will help your mOUnTaiNBACK. And here's an inside tip: there is no restriction that N be an integer. If you're feeling halfway there, do N=2 and throw in a couple more 300s. You could even go transcendental and make N=e or N=pi You'd just need to know where the line on the track is for those.
Well, judging by today's turnout, it's obvious girls aren't good at math. But that's OK. Meira will make a great English teacher, as witnessed by her hysterical Hill Reports. Ron Cunfer is OK at math as long as it's binary. But he's been scoring a lot of zeros lately at the track. Lee Culver's strong suite is hexadecimal, or "hex", like the jinx he'll put on his mOUnTaiNBACK team this year. Joel Niemann ran Tussey instead of the Track, so since he did half a two-a-day, his N is 1/2. And Ken Davis is working on his fractions. He hopes to get better than his current half-assed mOUnTaiNBACK trash talking!