May 13th, 2017 By Dingo

The challenge was thrown down.  A 7.5mile route which included 3 of the worst hills in our area.  followed by an nice easy 4 miler.

YHC has been thinking about doing this for a while, but to be honest, I’ve been a little scared of it.  But it was time to shed my inner weakness, or to stop being a pussy as @Mechanic would say, or leave my vagina at home as @Brutus would say.  Without these men to inspire me with their inspiring words, where would I be today?  I certainly would not be on the triple crown.  But neither were they……

I pulled in around 5:10am and I was honestly a little nervous about who would show.  I knew @The Farm and @Brutus would show, but would there be anyone else?  Lots of talk about cats on the slack channel, but none about posting for the full 7.5 miles……..At 5:12 @The Farm rolled in.  We got ourselves ready and kept looking to the right for @Brutus, but he did not show.

Down Prosperity we go, wondering out loud if @Forgotten Jelly and @Trail mix would show for the shorter HC’s.  We found Jelly floundering in the middle of Mallard Creek.  We set him straight and down David Taylor we went.  A lone headlight was catching us at a pretty quick pace.  Oh, that must be @Brutus we all discussed.  He wouldn’t miss a run like this.  Nope!  It was @ Landlord motoring along at break neck speed!  He informed us that he parked somewhere up on Mallard and hoped he would catch us.  Hoped?  I would assume the fastest guy we know would catch us.

Down to Senator Royal we go and there we see a red blinky light in the distance.  It was discussed that if @Brutus drove down to The Senator, we would royally roast his ass for a month!  Lucky for Brutus it was not him.  @Trail Mix was true to his word and ready to roll up The Senator.

We were 5 now, but don’t be disappointed, our numbers will grow some more soon!  The Senator is the same old ruthless bitch she always is.  She spotted @Forgotten Jellies busted finger for a weakness and she exploited it.  I don’t know how, but she had that man wanting to shit his pants!  At the bottom of The Senator we found a well timed @Filibuster.  Perfect timing if your plan was to miss running the hardest hill of the 3!

Now we are 6.  We started heading towards Claude when we realized that The Senator really did mess up Jellies bowells.  He left us at the bottom of Claude and we have no idea if his pants were soiled or not, I will leave that for you to decide for yourselves.  Try, just try and stop thinking about that image.  Up Claude we went.  Arguably the easier of the 3 hills.  Definitely easier than The Senator.  We parted ways with @Trail Mix at the bottom as he headed back down to his car.

Now we are 4.  The 4 of of us started up David Taylor, the last of the peaks.  On our way up we spotted a couple of F3 looking fellas.  @HopHunter and @TerribleTowell joined us for the run back up to the top.  By this point it was just a matter of finishing.  Personally my legs were smoked from some crazy dark trail run i did yesterday because of a double dog dare from a 55 year machine.  Speaking of said machine, @Brutus joined us on Prosperity Church rd.  I guess he is just running flats these days.

So 7 of us finished back at Tradition, where we were joined by R2D2 and Gentle Grizzly(On Bike).  I only ran 2 miles of the next route so I have no idea what happened.  Other than @Brutus knocking 4 minutes of a segment time and showing the young bucks how it is done!!

Thanks to all who came out!  Always good to know your brothers will be there.

The Valley

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