On the road to recovery

Today was a rough one, although lots of positive reflection on the race. I had a blast and can't wait to give it another try. It was great mixing it up with all the SLU teams but I reserve some special love for my own Masta Killaz teammates. I thoroughly enjoyed the adventure with you f*&@faces, and would gladly run up mountains and through streams again with you dudes.

Get out now!

Results

SLU Don't Worry About It [full sheet]
3rd overall; 1st Open
10:38:00; 6:29 pace

SLUTS [full sheet]
6th Overall; 3rd Mens
11:02:40; 6:44 pace

Lady Saints Alumni
8th Overall; 1st Womens
11:31:09; 7:02 pace*
*New record pace for women's division by :48 seconds per mile

Masta-Killaz [full sheet]
9th Overall; 2nd Masters Open
11:37:00; 7:05 pace

Vermont Alpaca Company
21st Overall; 11th Open
12:50:08; 7:50 pace

Down hills?

Becky just finished her 3rd leg. It ended with a thousand foot vertical drop during the last 2 miles. She's probably gonna need a quad transplant, but she's a doctor.

Derek is out scampering thru his last leg, a 10k. Then Dwight, then me. Then we're d-u-n!

ok, that didn't work

So we've been out of cell service for 5+ hours.

Just handed off from Sammy to Amy (12-13). We are about 35 min behind our target, but rolling now and catching slugz (lo hanging fruit) at a rate of about 2 teams per leg, but Amy has a long uphill and will be shakin the tree like she's an earthquake...

can you hear me now?

Cell service has been non-existant but that should be expected in VT. We've finally caught few teams and more are within reach. We have one cycle left, everyone has run twice and it's all about survival from here on in. Having a blast though, this is a cool event.
Derek

Ugh, what!?

Ouchtown, Population Me.
It's not THAT bad. I just finished my first leg, which finishes our first cycle. I was the lucky recipient of the dark looming thunder cloud - and what little rain it sprinkled on me. 5.8 mi, mostly uphill. First mi (thru Waitsfield and across the covered bridge, then straight up) was 6:50, but next mile (continuing up) was 7:40 - play the average. Got the rest of them down to the 7:00-7:15 range...

We finished the cycle only 10 minutes slower than our projected, but are about 2 miles behind the SLUTS, but it doesn't matter when you can't see another runner...

Amy is off teaching these hills who is boss.

"Run like you stold it!"

(Derek posted the prior post, this is really sammy)

four down, a lot to go

Just finished the "hardest" leg. I promise to pay more attention next time. We've heard a few thunder rolls, will try to stay ahead of the storm. Sugarbush is coming up! - Derek

Leg 1

Whew! Amy just finished leg 1. The leg course was adjusted, and shortened, because of the past week's rain. No rain in sight today. Just hot, hot sun.

Amy finishes the ~2 mile, hilly leg in 12:30.

Detour!

So I was 100 percent on schedule thru NYC - picked shirts up in Bryn Mawr @ 10am; grabbed JH at the corner of 24 & Madison at high noon. Then we hit a hiccup crossing into Connecticut and trying to get to 91...

Watters encountered delay too. so we ended up looking for food in Ludlow when I had hoped to be arriving in Burlington... three wood fired pizzas later and we are crawling up Route 7 behind a semi carrying cars...

grrr

I hate Garmin, tomtom & all other automatronic British know-it-alls.

Arriving in Vermont

We were "issued" these protective masks because it is manure spreading season in Vermont and well, methane is worse for you than ozone.

Reunited; Running World Ignited!

Welcome to our team's race blog for the 100 on 100 Heart of Vermont Relay. We started out as a team of St. Lawrence Alumni 30-somethings, but due to injuries, weddings, the Buddah Frisbee tournament and other conflicts we are now 4 SLU Alums plus Becky (big sister of a SLU '02 Alum) and Peter (not a SLU Alum, but a son of St. Lawrence County and ready to help out in a pinch). Our St. Lawrence components are: Sammy, Class of '00; Amy '99; Derek '96; and Dwight '96.

See you all on Route 100 in 9 days! In the meantime, check out the other St. Lawrence team blogs (via the links section) and run4stlawrence.com.