April 6th, 2022 By Jimmy Buffett

It has probably been a year or two since YHC posted a backblast so let’s hope I get this right. If not, Show-To-Know next time. Disclaimer: this whole thing is in no particular order other than how YHC remembers some of the various event occurring. Some ran, some rucked, all returned safely. PS, that was the only disclaimer of the day. Whoops.

 

Route posted the night before for the runners with a mix of Haunted Day Care and the greenway. Keep it safe but more importantly, keep it flat. This old heart doesn’t like running uphill anymore.

 

Text from Heatstroke that he won’t make it in the morning. Side note: Congratulations on the wedding anniversary! Something about promises he couldn’t pass up in the morning. Not sure that I would be as excited about the eggplant breakfast you were alluding to but to each their own I suppose.

 

Hopefully Soprano or Love Seat will join me. No dice. Roll-up at a very prompt 0529, plant the flag in the nice moist ground and turn around to see an array of ruckers waiting to depart. Except one precariously wasn’t wearing a ruck. Sugar decided to he wanted to see how fast he could move when he wasn’t carrying an extra 30 lbs and by golly, he could move.

 

Pax: Chachi, Kumho, Pox, Sugar, Wrong Way

Q: Jimmy Buffett

 

Ruckers set off to do whatever it is ruckers do. At this point I’m convinced they just carry beer and board games in those bags which is why their numbers keep growing.

 

Sugar and YHC set off towards the Haunted Day Care. Some good 2nd-F along the way. As we pass through the first marker on the course, I comment how my 2.0s’ bus drops kids off at the Children’s Courtyard which, for a long time I didn’t know where that was. Eventually I learned that Children’s Courtyard = Haunted Day Care. They of course ask me why I call it the Haunted Day Care to which Sugar jumps in on cue: “Cause in the dark it’s creepy as F.” He’s not wrong. Creepy little animals staring at you with their glowing eyes…

 

Down Moss Plantation we go and avoid getting chased by the humming lamp post that sounded like a cow. First segment down the greenway to Astoria where we circle back up to Moss Plantation and run the entire greenway home. Good route that will certainly get run again. Promised Sugar I wouldn’t tell anyone that he enjoyed the run so I’ll leave that part out.

 

Prayers for all those in need, particularly Ukraine. Prayers that Sugar’s daughter’s pains go away and no long term effects from the medicines prescribed.

 

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