Thursday, March 31, 2011

GONADS/Sweet-Six.3-31-11.PuppyFeet

Posting:

MMOB
J. Elmo
PBo
Doobie Brother
Moniteur
Mike Brennan (FNG)
OBT
Hitman
Mazie (FNC)

The Thing:
6.42 miles from Christ Episcopal through uptown and back along Morehead

The Times:
Lead Pack (J Elmo, PBo and MMOB): 49:30
Peleton Breakway Group (Moniteur and FNG): 51:10
The Peleton (OBT and Doobie Brother): 51:43
Hitman: 54:00

Spreadsheets From The Gloom:

_ After reading about how MMOB brought his dog to QAG last weeked and then locked him in the car for the entire workout, Hitman decided to go one better by showing up with his year-old golden retriever Mazie and bringing her along for the Sweet Six. Hit was in his MonkeyFeet shoes and Mazie was unshod, but at least her tail was still wagging when they pulled in at the end of the run -- at which point MMOB opened the trunk of his 1992 Lexus, and out popped his dog (which explained the frantic, muffled barking we had all been hearing as we stood in the CEC parking lot).

_ 3xclaps to FNG Mike Brennan, a work colleague of Moniteur's.  I was initially suspicious when Moniteur said he was from Raleigh, as all the people I knew in Raleigh when I used to commute there for the AP from Charlotte looked down their nose at the Shining City on the Hill and kept snottily asking when I was going to move to the City of Oaks ("Um ... is never good for you? Because never works great for me.").  However, it being Opening Day of the baseball season and given that Mike was running in Red Sox-branded technical gear, I'm going to cut him a break -- at least he's on the right side of one Civil War.

_ It being Opening Day, another Civil War renews tonight at Chavez Ravine, where the hated Los Angeles Dodgers will face the Defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants in the first game that matters since the Giants Won The World Series last November 1st.  Tip of the cap to the start of baseball season and #BeatLA!

_ A Welcome Back Kotter to Doobie Brother (and triathloning companion of PBo) Matt McDonald.  Doobie has hit the RitchieRun with us in the past, but I think this may have been his first SweetSix.  He was kind enough to keep a post-marathon sluggish OBT company today.

_ Finally, not to pick on MMOB, but ... he sprinted out ahead of the pack like he was chasing the SmokeBooted wraiths of Angrus, Nino, Affirmation and MacDeuce, disappearing into the Gloom.  I mean, he was gone, brothers.  PBo and J Elmo are motoring down Morehead when all of a sudden, up from behind them comes ... MMOB.  Did he get lost? Did he add a detour down South Boulevard to the normal course?  Has he lapped them?  It takes about a mile to drag an explanation out of him, but it finally develops that he pulled a Magellan, deviating off course for a ScrodStop at the Dowd Y.  Apparently, though, that didn't clear his head as the next thing that comes out of his mouth is:

MMOB: Hey guys, you know, I've been thinking and I think we need to get the Qrusader and GONAD wives together.

Dredd, PBo: Um, OK ...

MMOB: I think they need to get together and talk about how we've changed and how the Qrusade has made a difference in our lives.

(Now, as many of you may have noticed by now, PBo is one of the nicest guys in existence.  Not a mean bone in his body and always looking for the silver lining in things.  As Dredd points out, he would have made a great German back in the late 1930s and early 1940s: Well, you know, camp can really be a lot of fun for people, can't it?  So it gives some insight into just how bad an idea this was that PBo immediately shot a hand up in the air.)

PBo: No. Not going to happen.

So there you have it.  Worst Qrusade idea since OBT tried to drag the gang to see "Love and Other Drugs" to kick off the Qrusade Movie Club.

_ Putting the APB out for: Zoot.  He made a hard commit yesterday but when his name was called this AM ... crickets.

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