This is old news for many but just to make it official the first Saturday of March will henceforth be known as
Tray and Lee's Brickyard March Madness Marathon.
An annual event, the inaugural took place yesterday under the stars, make that in the warm, sunny, light breezy, dry, make that drizzly, cold, ice-strewn, grey skies we all know and love as Brickyard. Mike Taricani has already signed up for the 2nd annual. Lea Crown, suffering from the aftereffects of getting the very first demerit ever issued by the board for her "don't do rain" attitude is attending behaviour modification therapy classes in hopes she'll be ready for next year. (She did, we must say, a full 10 on the dreadmill, so she is forgiven for this lapse.)
Slavedriver Stratton eked out a mere 22 (albeit quick last two) while the arithmetically challenged Ms Tray and Mr Bradley made the event-creating split second decision to make the unrememberable 25+ mile distance an even marathon by tacking on an out and back.
The event will be catered by Momma Rose and Miss Linda who delivered maximum pulp OJ, Vitamin water and Banana Muffins.
Rose and Mike ran 13+ and Abby ran a bit less since she knew she would run possibly the full 18 in Sunday's Northern Nipmuck Trail.
Of the conversations that took place, whether one's cat or dog will cuddle, what one gets when one loses 25 pounds or might get if one loses an additional 4 pounds, what comes next in the sequence 0 3 18 69 228 711 ..., how to get a pot luck party that comes two weeks after a 50 mile ultra and one week after the Providence Marathon to take place at Tray and Barry's place come to mind.
