GONADS/Fellowship--BackBlast.6/21/11--Running With The Pack

So, we went a little rogue today. SixMike emailed me to see if I wanted to run this morning, we set it for Christ Church at 6 a.m., then MMOB called to see if I wanted to run with our dogs and then we added Hitman in too because he likes to run with his dog. So ...

The Pax (et Canis):
OBT & Fenway
MMOB & Finnegan
Hitman & Masie
SixMike
MacDeuce (joined in progress)

The Thang:
6 miles from Christ Church at fellowship pace (about 8:45); 54:01.
Route was a rough Figure 8, up and around the Booty Loop, then back down Sharon to Wendover and back up Providence to the church.

Spreadsheets from the Gloom:

_ MMOB showed up with his dog and shirtless. Then SixMike goes shirtless because, you know, it's his rule that he can go shirtless if it's over 70 degrees. So the pack is four guys, two of them with no shirts on, and three dogs. As we're coming around the Booty Loop on QRW, we encounter MacDeuce headed the other way. He turns around and joins us for the rest of the run, which was a great relief to me because by having his shirt on (a super-manly GONADS shirt, no less) and not having a dog he singlehandedly raised the heterosexuality quotient of the group by about 50%.

_ Another MacDeuce note: The orange glow from his Turks & Caicos tan was visible from two blocks away. He was so far into summer vacation mode that he didn't even bother bringing MaxiDeuce (the 8-foot-tall holographic cyborg representation that is id to MacDeuce's ego) with him on the run.

_ Also encountered headed in the opposite direction on the other side of QRW was (shirtless) Shack -- we yelled at him to join us, but he waved us off and appeared to have a radar-lock on Home as his destination.

_ Running through Myers Park with SixMike and MMOB (both Charlotte natives) mixes elements of Jeopardy!, the Social Register and a good old-fashioned dick-measuring contest. "Ah, here's the modest home where Doctor So-and-So lived for all those years." "This where Hottie McHotterson grew up! She was the cutest girl in the second-grade class at Myers Park Elementary." "You don't know Abe Froman, the Cotton King of Charlotte? You grew up in this town, didn't you?" Good stuff, people.

_ We may do this again. As Dredd coincidentally noted in his 2FT BackBlast, men need to run in a pack during the dog days. This certainly qualified. More to follow.

OBT