Straight Out Of Gashouse
14 Men went out on an adventure, 2 drivers and 11 runners.
The Thang:
Van 1: Driver and 5 runner’s
Van2: Driver and 6 runner’s
If you don’t know how this works I will explain briefly. We have 12 positions for running. We go through 1 through 12, 3 times.
We conquered.
The Moleskin:
First, I would like to thank all that participated in this and how much of an honor it is to participate in this event with each one of you. We have many stories from the event and as a matter of record they should be recorded on this thread. So please respond with any stories that your feel need to be added in the comments section below.
Quick Highlights:
Both Madoff and Monk had dogs really mess with them on runs. Madoff makes mention of that he got a 2 minute delay on his leg which messed up his timing. Monk saved a girl from dogs and took a spill on the ground while doing so. Next years thought is that we bring some pepper spray. We don’t want to hurt the dogs but we do need to protect ourselves.
Burning Car: This was spotted in Van 2 and they stayed at location for 30 minutes. Confirmed today that someone was dead at that scene. Van 2 will have to elaborate on this story.
Boudan, seemed to enjoy the Grandfather Mountain run. He almost seemed euphoric after the run.
Marissa: She not only was the nice girl that Monk saved and was very gracious but also ran with Madoff later and she ran very well.
Stonecold ran his first big race and really made it happen. Kudos to him for the gut check out on the BRR.
Freight had mentioned something about his leg 31 being bad and Tyson said to him “You signed up for this”. Perfect.
Tyson drove for van 2, he is down with an injury and we all hope he is better real soon.
Freight, Took Tyson’s spot on the relay on Thursday before the event. He ran better than average, I know he is sore but it is unbelievable how well he did on this runs.
Defib, took the Mountain Goat like it was flat land. Observation from me was he had used his arms so well to assist up the mountain he looked like a body builder.
Tooltime approaching: Gastone checked with van 2 to see how much sleep I could get. We had figured that Tooltime would make it around 2 am to me, but after talking to Van 2 they said around 1:30am. So I set my clock for 1:07am. I got up and Roadie told me that he should be to us in 20 minutes. This meant Tooltime was flying fast. But, then within 3 minutes they told me he would be to us in 10 minutes. I started to hurry, and could not get my socks on because my feet were wet but almost ready all of another 2 minutes and the tell me that he could be arriving in a minute. I start quickly still putting myself together and got to the start line to notice that he has already arrived and is eating a potato. Good gracious, he gives me grief and then tells me to give him 25 Burpee’s to make up for it. So I could not do this for him on that run but I got them today since he is the boss.
Whoopee, he says he hates to run. But, he ran like a champ and put together some great times. He is ready to go again next year.
While waiting on Defib at the top of the Goat. A local pick up truck must not like vistors. He came real close to taking out myself, Dolph, and Tooltime. Then went down the hill and almost got Defib. What a jerk.
Dolph is Dolph, just a regular beast that probably did not train and just did this in his spare time. But a great job he did.
Roadie is the best driver we could have asked for. He gave encouragement to our team and other runner’s on the coarse. For us in van 1 we could not thank him enough for being who he is and for what he added to all of us during this race. On a side note: Roadie is going to start taking the red pill now, expect big things. Thanks, Roadie.
Defib and his M had us stop over at the lake house on the way back. They had food and drinks and were very awesome for doing this!!! You guys are great and we all really liked the house. We definitely look forward to swimming at that spot one day in our Speedo’s.
So much more happened so be sure to add stories to the comment section, we need to have all this down.
It was an honor to run with you guys and I look forward to the next adventure.
Gastone Out!